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The Obama Justice System

salon.com — Due process is seen as window dressing to enable to President to detain whoever he wants, for as long as he wants.

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  • treehugger87, on 07/08/2009, -0/+8Does 6 years of detention with no access to a lawyer count?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/us/22cnd-padilla ...

    How about if the "terrorist" comes out unfit for trial because he is so beholden to his captors and distrustful of his own lawyers that he cannot reasonably be expected to act in his own best interest?

    http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N2M437458 ...

    Jose Padilla is an American Citizen captured on American soil but denied the right guaranteed to him by the U.S. Constitution.
  • gn84, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7If you look into Glenn Greenwald's previous writing, you would find that he was just as critical of Bush in these areas as he is now of Obama. Better get out the prozac, because hoping that this article is full of lies would be even more naive than believing that Obama's "Hope and Change" would amount to anything worthwhile.

    When will people learn that Democrats and Republicans are two branches of the same statist, pro-corporate, pro-fascist party?
  • gn84, on 07/09/2009, -0/+7Now I'm just depressed. I forgot about Jose Padilla. We're already there.
  • womweasel, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7I am anti-Bush and anti-Republican. However, it appears to me that some of the biggest problems of the Bush years are not being undone (and according to this article, things are getting worse). I hope this article is full of lies, otherwise, I may need some Prozac.
  • JoeParanoid, on 07/08/2009, -1/+7No wonder Sarah Palin called it the "law & order" department because it seems that justice no longer has anything to do with it.
  • Waiting2awake, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Well guys, it isn't like you weren't warned. Two puppets, controlled by the same puppeteer isn't a choice.
  • gn84, on 07/08/2009, -1/+3How long is it before ordinary natural-born American citizens start being indefinitely detained? Anybody want to start a betting line?

    Wait, scratch that. They might come and arrest us as enemy combatants for promoting gambling.

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