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Obama and habeas corpus — then and now

Merlijn Cantineau | 04.28.09 | bad, culture

Nu we hier toch bezig zijn… even een genuanceerde blik omtrend het Obama beleid.

To recap:  Obama files a brief saying he agrees in full with the Bush/Cheney position.  He’s arguing that the President has the power to abduct, transport and imprison people in Bagram indefinitely with no charges of any kind.  He’s telling courts that they have no authority to “second-guess” his decisions when it comes to war powers.  But this is all totally different than what Bush did, and anyone who says otherwise is a reckless, ill-motivated hysteric who just wants to sell books and get on TV.

Allemaal braaf zijn dus D:

En wat vinden jullie van dit?

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  • On 04.29.09 Lorenzo wrote these pithy words:

    Merlijn, anders moet je maar eens kijken naar The Obama Deception (en in mindere mate Zeitgeist, die helpt als “inleiding”). Je moet zeker en vast niet alles wat ze in die film(s) zeggen zomaar meteen blind geloven, maar het is wel een interessante kritische blik op de man die verandering zou brengen.

    Hoera voor politici!
    (Why are we paying these people again?)

  • On 04.29.09 Merlijn Cantineau wrote these pithy words:

    Wel het is nog een beetje vroeg he. En kritiek geven is altijd eenvoudiger dan zelf iets doen. Maar ik vond dit artikel wel goed onderbouwd en met video kan je zo gemakelijk manipuleren. Als je het artikel goed gelezen hebt geeft de auteur zelf het beste antwoord.

    I’m not searching for ways to criticize Obama. I wish I could be writing paeans celebrating the restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law. But these actions — these contradictions between what he said and what he is doing, the embrace of the very powers that caused so much anger towards Bush/Cheney — are so blatant, so transparent, so extreme, that the only way to avoid noticing them is to purposely shut your eyes as tightly as possible and resolve that you don’t want to see it, or that you’re so convinced of his intrinsic Goodness that you’ll just believe that even when it seems like he’s doing bad things, he must really be doing them for the Good. If there was any unanimous progressive consensus over the last eight years, it was that the President does not have the power to kidnap people, ship them far away, and then imprison them indefinitely in a cage without due process. Has that progressive consensus changed as of January 20, 2009? I think we’re going to find out.

    Ook nog dit, “We are not paying these people” als studenten zitten we buien dat systeem. De Amerikaanse president zit zelf nog verder weg.

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