Ishmael Reed

[rich]

and i'm sorry but i don't think getting a gays in the military (who
cares)and arms treaty (really don't care) gives you a pass on
waffling/surrendering on more important economic and foreign policy
issues like jobs, wall st corruption and the war in Afghanistan among
others.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> "President Obama is preparing to sign an executive order in the new year
> establishing the government’s right to indefinitely detain prisoners without
> charge or trial. This according to a report by ProPublica. The
> administration is expected to indefinitely hold at least 48 of the prisoners
> remaining at Guantánamo. Under the executive order, prisoners would be
> allowed to challenge their incarceration periodically. ProPublica reports
> that nearly two years after Obama’s pledge to close the prison at
> Guantánamo, more prisoners there are formally facing the prospect of
> lifelong detention and fewer are facing charges than the day Obama was
> elected."
> By current US law, he can do this to citizens, simply by calling them enemy
> combatants.