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Bush turned us in a bad direction, Obama stepped on the gas. The Bush policies that were most detrimental to the long-term health of the US have been embraced
by civilunrest 14y ago
Bush turned us in a bad direction, Obama stepped on the gas.
The Bush policies that were most detrimental to the long-term health of the US have been embraced and championed by Obama. Namely, the suspension of habeus corpus. Obama and Bush both abduct people they don't like and ship them to prisons in war zones and strip them of all their civil liberties.
Obama, in section 1012 of NDAA 2012, signed into law the right of the US military to detain US citizens indefinitely, without trial.
Of course there are lawsuits and challenges to NDAA 2012, and states have signed their own legislation into place that says, "no, really, the constitution and bill of rights mean something still".
But that stuff isn't stopping the US from abducting and imprisoning its own citizens.
I didn't say anything about the transparency, because I got worked up. Oh, well.
- jonmrodriguez 14y agoSection 1021, not 1012: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012#Indefinite_detention_without_trial:_Section_1021 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_...
- civilunrest 14y agoThanks. I'm a notorious digit and letter swapper, and should have copy-pasted that. (It's been the source of some of my hardest to chase bugs when I'm programming in a dynamic language without strict compile time checks, they are hard mistakes for me to see).
- lostlogin 14y agoIt's funny you would say that. I got a distinct 'uh oh' feeling when Gitmo wasn't promptly closed. However New Zealand perspectives on these things tend to differ from US views. I assume you are American