WOW! Now Liberals Don't Have a Problem With Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects.....

Mind-bending hypocrisy.....

Post-Guantánamo: A New Detention Law?- NY Times

As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama sketched the broad outlines of a plan to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba: try detainees in American courts and reject the Bush administration’s military commission system.

Now, as Mr. Obama moves closer to assuming responsibility for Guantánamo, his pledge to close the detention center is bringing to the fore thorny questions under consideration by his advisers. They include where Guantánamo’s detainees could be held in this country, how many might be sent home and a matter that people with ties to the Obama transition team say is worrying them most: What if some detainees are acquitted or cannot be prosecuted at all?

That concern is at the center of a debate among national security, human rights and legal experts that has intensified since the election. Even some liberals are arguing that to deal realistically with terrorism, the new administration should seek Congressional authority for preventive detention of terrorism suspects deemed too dangerous to release even if they cannot be successfully prosecuted.

“You can’t be a purist and say there’s never any circumstance in which a democratic society can preventively detain someone,” said one civil liberties lawyer, David D. Cole, a Georgetown law professor who has been a critic of the Bush administration.

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Comments

[Elric66]

They mean when they round up conservatives

[Battlecat]

Animal Farm... best book ever.

Chapter 3: "Four legs good, two legs bad."
Chapter 10: "Four legs good, two legs better."

When Bush detains terrorists, it's an international media circus, human rights abuse, crimes against humanity extravaganza. But when Obama vows to free them, and then realizes maybe that's not such a good idea after all, well hey, that's just fine. Logic-impaired leftist hypocrisy at its finest.

[Hening]

All things Bush become wonderful when Obama is on the scene. What do you expect from libtards? The problem is all this wonder fell into their laps. They could never earn it, and will never keep it.

[Merrimac]

In other words, if any detainee had been released by Bush and then committed terrorism against Americans, the Dhimmicrats would have used it to blame Bush and the US for policies which had 'forced' Moslems into terrorism, but NOW that it's their watch, they're rather edgy about taking the risk that would rightly earn them blame. Dhimmicrats, liberals and the Left are NEVER willing to accept responsibility for their actions.

[Pierre]

Merrimac,i think than already 90% of the detainee who had been released,had committed Crimes and terrorist acts and already dead,those one was consider LOW dangerosity by the expert...Funny ?

[Dale]

Wow! Some members of [arbitrarily labeled group] don't have the same opinions as other members of [arbitrarily labeled group].

[dahozho]

hmmmm. So, is this actually a spark of something approaching dealing with reality on the part of the left?

Now that they actually look at who is down there in Cuba, maybe indefinite detention isn't looking so, you know, eeeevvil.

Actually looking at the stories around the blogosphere the last couple days, I've been wondering how things got so hideous so d#mn fast.