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Obama follows Bush/Cheney Radicalism?

by 158 | February 1, 2010 at 08:54 am

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As a candidate for president

Barack Obama promised to

end these practices and to pass

laws to forbid future use of such

tactics.

"the civil liberties area has been [Obama's] worst. This is the one area in which the president's actions don't remotely match the candidate's promises."

Terrorism must be dealt with

but it must be done within the

law. Terrorism is in fact only

criminal acts and should be

dealt with under civilian

criminal laws,

there is clearly a bipartisan and institutional craving for a revival (more accurately: ongoing preservation) of the core premise of Bush/Cheney radicalism: that because we're "at war" with Terrorists, our standard precepts of justice and due process do not apply and, indeed, must be violated.

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Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 09:59 on February 1st, 2010

The argument makes sense as far as domestic terrorism goes. How do you define those captured on the battlefield though? Surely they would be considered POWs if you're involved in a war.

This brings up the definition of battlefield in this post 911 era?

158

at 11:16 on February 1st, 2010

Anyone captured on an actual battlefield or while committing a terrorist act should be treated as a POW, under the Geneva convention. Others should be tried as criminals in civil court.