OK, this is change, but I can’t say I believe in it
8 JulThe Obama justice system – Glenn Greenwald
Highlighting not mine.
[…] Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD’s General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are acquitted at their trial. About this assertion of “presidential post-acquittal detention power” — an Orwellian term (and a Kafka-esque concept) that should send shivers down the spine of anyone who cares at all about the most basic liberties — Ackerman wrote, with some understatement, that it “moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective.”
Law professor Jonathan Turley was more blunt: “The Obama Administration continues its retention and expansion of abusive Bush policies — now clearly Obama policies on indefinite detention.” […]
I cannot express how disgusted I am. Read the entire thing, if you have the stomach for it.
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6 JulI just made a birthday wish for my 51st birthday! Click here (Facebook Causes) to find out what it is.
Right Wing nonsense, and this time it’s not coming from Texas
1 JulMorality and Economics « Texas Freedom Network
Texas clearly doesn’t have a monopoly on right-wing nonsense. At least we aren't alone…
Sirota says exactly what I have been thinking
6 JunObama’s trail of broken promises
The prophet of hope now doesn’t even bother with explanations when he reneges on his campaign pledges.
[…] We once respected democracy by at least demanding explanations — however weak — for unfulfilled promises. Then we became a country whose scorched-earth campaigns against flip-flopping desensitized us to reversals. Now, we don’t flinch when our president appears tickled that a few poor souls still expect politicians to fulfill promises and justify broken ones. […]
I am so disappointed in this man that I can’t even express it. I’m glad David Sirota is there to do it for me.
Domestic terrorism
1 JunIn regards to the murder of Dr. George Tiller, apocalypsos responds much better than I could ever hope to do. So go read what she said, and know that I completely agree with her.
Allow me to add that if ever we reach the point where the “War on Terror” has any real meaning, then people like Scott P. Roeder will be treated as terrorists.
ETA: Abortion Doctor Murder Suspect: The Far-Right Connections | Mother Jones
Very interesting analysis of the dangers of Catholic fundamentalism
18 MayNotre Dame’s stand against Catholic fundamentalism | Salon
President Obama goes to the University of Notre Dame this Sunday to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree, the ninth U.S. president to be so honored. The event has stirred up a hornet’s nest of conservative Catholics, with more than 40 bishops objecting, and hundreds of thousands of Catholics signing petitions in protest. In the words of South Bend’s Bishop John M. D’Arcy, the complaint boils down to President Obama’s “long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred.” Notre Dame, the bishop charged, has chosen “prestige over truth.” […]
An Aging Trans Woman 