I saw this in a left-wing blog yesterday. I read it with amusement and amazement at how the left excuses Barack Obama and tries to justify a program that makes the Patriot Act look like kindergarten material, particularly when that side was so enraged over the Patriot Act, yet they defend this. I guess its excusable if Obama takes more power than he is constitutionally allowed. God wouldn’t have been able to save President Bush from the leftists if he had signed these police state powers in to law. Once again, they’re hypocrites, and have done it so often and for so long that it just comes naturally and they don’t even know they are doing it. It’s that mental illness thing again that every leftist suffers from in one degree or another.
Politicus USA wrote:
In his signing statement attached to the NDAA, President Obama made it clear that the language about detentions does not apply to US citizens.
Excuse me? Did he sign NDAA in to law, yes or no? Yes he did, and the law states that anyone including U.S. citizens can be detained indefinitely without due process, period. I don’t give a damned what “statement” Obama signed, he has the power. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. At some point in time it will happen.
The statement Obama signed isn’t worth the price of the cocktail napkin he wrote it on.
In the second paragraph of his NDAA signing statement, Obama stated, “The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists. Over the last several years, my Administration has developed an effective, sustainable framework for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected terrorists that allows us to maximize both our ability to collect intelligence and to incapacitate dangerous individuals in rapidly developing situations, and the results we have achieved are undeniable. Our success against al-Qa’ida and its affiliates and adherents has derived in significant measure from providing our counterterrorism professionals with the clarity and flexibility they need to adapt to changing circumstances and to utilize whichever authorities best protect the American people, and our accomplishments have respected the values that make our country an example for the world.”
This is pure psychobabble. If he didn’t agree with it, or major parts of it, he shouldn’t have signed it. But he did.
To the folks over at Politicus USA…. No thanks, I’m not in the market for snake oil.