...is going to say that since Al Qaida is terrorists we should be torturers and war criminals.
The problem is, of course, that the current and previous administration agrees with the moron...

THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012. Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act”

The news media and 24 hour news talking heads/spin doctors are not discussing it. This is especially surprising for FOX News who criticize President Obama for every real or imagined fault.

This is the President who came to power on the promise of closing Guantánamo and this Law Obama signed into effect New Years Eve increases the logical probability there will be even more Gitmo like secret holding facilities in America few will know about except for the disappeared.

While Obama could have vetoed the Bill which he said he would out of one side of his mouth, information is now public the provision that allows the US Military to detain indefinitely anyone they “suspect” of having any connection with terrorism, is a result of his surrogates urging Congress to include the provision in Law out of the other side of his mouth. This is so extremely dangerous to any notion we have of fundamental Democratic rights and protection of the Law.

This legal right and protection from the arbitrary whims of the ruling class in changing economic and political atmospheres has been the cornerstone of Democratic evolution since the Magna Carta of 1215. This is an extremely significant development as it portends to the Future for a global economy on the ropes with austerity and contraction on the way.

All experience from the Past has established these kinds of economic circumstances move people to demonstrate on the streets. Anyone attempting to organize a peaceful, non violent protest could be “suspected” of being a terrorist or sympathizer and the Military will just come and grab them off the street or out of their home. The leaders of any Occupy Movement would be “suspect. ” The Military does not have to back up their “suspicions” with proof and evidence in a Civilian Court of Law. It would be a bureaucratic decision, not necessarily a Presidential one in the atmospheres of the Day. There will be no Civilian Judge to hear the detainee’s cries.

Ray Joseph Cormier

This is that it's a continuing reminder that official America doesn't like the fact that America is a nation of laws. While taking frequent refuge in that form of words, members of Congress, officialdom, the legal profession and others show that it means nothing, and prefer to believe that in Cuba America owns a magical place where the laws don't matter at all in any real sense. Such rights the prisoners have there -- and remember that officially, the prisoners aren't prisoners at all, they're detainees -- arise from military regs and occasional improvements gained by appeals to the Supreme Court. Lower levels of the federal judiciary make themselves complicit in this outlawry by their frequent resort to saying they can't hear matters raised by advocates for prisoners on the ground that federal courts are domestic courts, and what happens in Guantanamo is none of their business: Guantanamo is not domestic.

The world knows that this means the whole US government runs on lines akin to those of the Hole in the Wall gang of the 19th century, and observes that this is what the US government in both Bush and Obama approve and continue to pay for; so it's what the American people approve or at least are prepared to turn their eyes from.

A remarkable number of US military officers who have had their noses rubbed in the Guantanamo realities by being appointed as prosecutors of the Guantanamo prisoners, have expressed their views by resigning their military commissions. This makes them possibly the most honorable, ethical bunch of US military officers in the world today, but so far, not people who have been able to eliminate official abuses there.

Guantanamo is a running sore in the life of America. Members of Congress have shown repeatedly that they are too cowardly to heal it by transferring prisoners there to the jurisdiction of the United States itself. Their opinions of how legal they think domestic America is, they show by being too cowardly to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for any American act at all. This manifests their belief that America is an outlaw state, and their desire to prolong that. Virtually no other nation has such duplicitous and cowardly parliamentarians. .