Nostalgia
By Mitch Berg
Remember when allowing for indefinite detention of terror suspects without access to American constitutional legal protections was the greatest moral crime of all time?
No worries:Either does the Obama administration:
In Holder’s view, then, we are engaged in a war that started years before we noticed it and may never end, at least not in any definitive way. The enemy is not simply the guy who shoots at you on the battlefield, who can be readily identified; he can be anyone, anywhere who helps anti-American terrorists. He could be a guy captured in the Philippines suspected of funneling money to Al Qaeda, or (presumably) he could be the employee of an Islamic charity in the U.S. that is accused of sending money to Hezbollah.
He even brings new meaning to the “Fairness” Doctrine:
Given Holder’s invocation of cyber and mental battlefields, the enemy could even be someone accused of fomenting terrorism through incendiary online criticism of the U.S. government. The implication is that any of these people could be held in military custody without trial until the cessation of hostilities, i.e., indefinitely.
Remember when Mark Gisleson and Steve Perry fretted that the Bush Administration was going to toss them all into re-education camps by the end of his term?
As with much lefty projection, it looks like it’s a possibility – now that they are in power.





February 25th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Mighty quiet around here. Where are the Bush Is Shredding The Constitution folks?
February 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
When bush took office the Dow was at 10,500. When he left office it was at 8,000. That’s a loss of 2,500 pts.
In the one month since Obama has taken office the DJIA is down 800 pts.
People are starting to realize that they have elected an incompetent, inexperienced, corrupt crook as President.
February 25th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Where are the Bush Is Shredding The Constitution folks?
They are using the shredded Constitution for bedding while they take a long nap on Obama.
February 25th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Do you know if Gitmo has wireless?