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[QUOTE="Headbanging%20Man:1122407"][QUOTE="Doomkid:1122090"][QUOTE="Headbanging%20Man:1122080"][QUOTE="ShadowSD:1122020"]Obama, on the other hand, fortunately respects the Constitution[/QUOTE] Haha! Sucker...[/QUOTE] Give me some examples of how he's disrespected it.[/QUOTE] Damn, just read Glenn Greenwald's blog from the past 2 years! Without bothering to look up links, here's a couple things I can remember off-hand: As Senator: - Voted to extend Patriot Act - Voted to extend FISA and immunize telecoms from legal liability for their work helping the government spy on US citizens and their communications Administration: - Continues/expands government partnerships with "faith-based" organizations - Refuses to release additional materials/photos showing proof of inhumane conditions is US military prisons overseas - Declines to prosecute Bush officials on blatant crimes related to: torture, illegal detention/rendition, DoJ lawyer-firing-scandal, or any of the dozens of other areas of malfeasance visible to any casual observer - Nominates Dawn Johnson to the position of Office Of Legal Counsel as a sop to the "left"; when Johnson is challenged in the Senate (most likely because she's advocated prosecuting Bush-admin officials), White House leaves her out to dry, without support in Congress or the press. On the other hand, Elena Kagan, who helped Bush administration deny rights to alleged terrorists as Solicitor General, gets full backing and support for her SCOTUS nomination - Promotes Stanley McChrystal to head Afghan mission, despite McChrystal's ties to torture black-sites and the cover up of the "friendly fire" assassination of Pat Tillman - Continues to allow torture at facilities like Bagram, as long as US personnel aren't directly involved - Continues to treat Bagram (possibly other sites?) as the due-process-free-zone Guantanamo once was; alleged terrorists captured far away from Afghanistan are taken to Bagram, where they can be detained indefinitely without any review - Numerous Guantanamo inmates have been cleared by military judicial panels but remain unreleased - Obama himself publicly indicated he didn't give a shit about Miranda protections and seemed quite content when several months later, SCOTUS eviscerates this crucial part of modern due process, on the basis of intellectually bankrupt "ticking time bomb terrorist" logic. You won't see him scolding the court on this at next year's State Of The Union! - Military uses SIGINT technology for law-enforcement purposes in tracking alleged Times Square Bomber on domestic territory, then disguises role - Khalid Sheik Mohammed: no trial, no public appearances, no process... But be sure to remember that he is the self-proclaimed "Mastermind of 9/11", and be sure to forget that he'd been waterboarded dozens of times (possibly causing permanent brain damage) by the time he made this proclamation. And of course, the most blatant sign of disdain shown by the Obama administration for basic civil liberties, the Constitution and due-process: - The administration has claimed the right of the US (military or CIA) to assassinate any person anywhere in the world at any time, including US citizens, and regardless of proximity to the "battlefield". Independent groups trying to challenge this ridiculous assertion have been stymied at every turn, with the Treasury Dept. (not sure how they got involved) trying to force lawyers from the ACLU and CCR to get special licenses to advocate for a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist"!! WTF does the Treasury have to do with it? Of course, this last bit is merely an extension of the permanent war state created by the Bush/Cheney regime and enshrined in the ongoing AUMF of 9/18/01, Public Law 107-40, which asserts the right of the President to use force against those [B]"he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons"[/B]. With the implementation of this law and the Patriot Act, due process, the bill of rights, and balance of powers between the branches of government was perhaps destroyed for good. Certainly until Obama works to reverse both of these crucial statutes, and the behavior listed above, it's pretty clear that he is an Enemy Of The Constitution.[/QUOTE]
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