Don't Think of It as Suspension of Habeas Corpus...

...think of it as "preventive detention."

President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said. [More]

Well, when you're dealing with scary people like these, you need to be prepared to do something. Nobody thinks all these "homegrown terrorist" trial balloons have been floated to always limit this stuff exclusively to foreigners, do they?

That's quite some Hopey Hopey Change Change this administration is bringing us. What's funny is seeing some of the less dim cud-chewers starting to realize they've been had.

Grab The Post URL

URL: https://bloggernizer.blogspot.com/2009/05/don-think-of-it-as-suspension-of-habeas.html
HTML link code: <a href="https://bloggernizer.blogspot.com/2009/05/don-think-of-it-as-suspension-of-habeas.html">bloggernizer: Don't Think of It as Suspension of Habeas Corpus... "clickable"</a>
BB (forum) link code: [url=https://bloggernizer.blogspot.com/2009/05/don-think-of-it-as-suspension-of-habeas.html]bloggernizer: Don't Think of It as Suspension of Habeas Corpus... "clickable"[/url]