Posts in "Guantanamo Bay"

By Jihan Huq at 10:27PM

Jan 31, 2010

Obama's New Gitmo Deadline

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Obama's new Gitmo deadline is not this year or next year -- but January 22, 2013. Political obstacles are key to this delay, but keep in mind how little Obama has accomplished of what he promised for this year.

As promising as a Jan. 22, 2010 deadline sounded, some were not deceived. John Bellinger, who was Condoleeza Rice's advisor, speculated that Obama would fall short of his promise.

Others don't see it would make much of a difference at all. "What's the point? You would just be moving Guantanamo in the US," said Human Rights Watch counterterrorism adviser Stacy Sullivan.

As typical as this is of Obama's political mishaps and misteps, one thing is for sure: He as revived the right, at least for the time being. Whether it be the Tea Partiers, fiscal or social conservatives, liberatarians or independants, there is a growing national disapproval of the Obama administration's Marxist and globalist policies.

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By Preston Mui at 11:39PM

Dec 17, 2009

New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

From the Boston Globe's Pictures of the Year:

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By Brian Beyer at 6:28AM

Dec 8, 2009

An American Gulag? And It's Not the YAL Kind

Guantanamo Bay is once again causing a world of controversy for -- you guessed it -- inhumane treatment of its prisoners. The "military detention camp" is really just a place for US leaders to circumvent the US legal system and the Constitution, all in the name of wartime procedures. An illegal invention of Bush-era lawyers, the "detention camp" remains open despite promises by the current president to have closed it.

A new report by the Seton Hall University Law School reveals crime reminiscent of Soviet Gulags. What is even more unfortunate is that people are willing to defend this trash as:

a clean, modern facility that employs humane detention practices to prevent enemy combatants from causing harm in the future and that utilizes fair trial procedures that exceed standards accepted in comparable international tribunals to adjudicate the guilt or innocence of enemy combatants alleged to have committed punishable offenses in the past.

A dissapointing moment for a Great man

In this epic struggle of statists vs freedom fighters, Rand Paul is one of the heroes. Like his father before him, Rand's kindness and decency is palpable to anyone watching him speak. He has a real job, an independent mind, and all the right people saying good things about him.

That said, I found this story to be very dissapointing. Rand Paul is advocating the "trial" of terror suspects in Guantanomo, rather than in a civilian court in the US. This is coming in the explicit form of a press release intended for public viewership.