Posts in "Indefinite Preventive Detention"

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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 Bonnie Kristian at 12:30PM
Jan 18, 2010

In May, Obama proposed indefinite preventative detention. What happened?

Rachel Maddow is obviously not great on everything, but in this video she gives a sweet monologue the "indefinite preventive detention" Obama proposed in May.  What exactly does this detention mean in practice?  Maddow explains it well, but here's another example of how it could work:

Imagine you are picked up off the street for daring to write something provocative in your blog.  Perhaps you vaguely threaten to relocate to Afghanistan and work with a humanitarian aid organization there.  Unkown to you the humanitarian aid organization might possibly be associated with the Afghan resistence.  Perhaps the head of the aid organization is the third cousin twice removed of a suspected warlord causing our march for empire trouble on the border.  Based on that alone you could be kept in a cell forever.  After all, letting you out of that cell might mean you really would do what you threatened and we can't have that.

This all happened in May.  Old news, right?  Yeah, it is.  But it's not something we should forget about, especially when it's so difficult to find more recent updates on the situation.  Here, for instance, is a blog post from a few days ago, but other than that, recent news on this situation seems to be nearly nonexistent. 

But maybe I'm missing something -- thus this blog post.  Does anyone know what's up?  I assume the proposal went through, but given the upcoming deadline (this Friday) for the closing of Guantanamo, I'm wondering exactly what happened.  Leave a comment if you've seen news I missed.

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