Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, March 8, 2011


Oh, Charlie...

Oh... oh... oh... Charlie!

Dude! Get help! Seriously...!

Crack is wack.

It's gonna suck if (when?) Charlie is D.O.A. from an O.D.
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William R. Barker said...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703386704576186791361222486.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

President Obama said [yesterday that] the U.S. would resume the military tribunals for Guantanamo terrorists that he unilaterally suspended two years ago, and he may even begin referring new charges to military commissions within days or weeks.

In an August 2007 speech that his advisers touted at the time, Mr. Obama promised to repeal this "legal framework that does not work."

He even claimed that Bush policies undermined "our Constitution and our freedom" and that the Bush Administration had pressed a "false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand," a line he recycled in his Inaugural Address.

He went out of his way to vote against the Military Commissions Act.

So much for all that.

The White House yesterday also stressed its commitment to civilian terror prosecutions going forward, but that also doesn't mean much. Last year the Democratic Congress barred funding for transferring enemy combatants from Gitmo to the U.S., and that won't change with a Republican House.

* STILL TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH... (*SIGH*)

* BEYOND THE MERE HYPOCRISY AND DISENGENUOUSNESS, HOWEVER, IS A SERIOUS CAVEAT:

[One] note of trouble is Mr. Obama's decision, also announced yesterday, to seek Senate ratification of a radical 1977 revision to the 1949 Geneva Conventions known as Additional Protocol 1.

President Reagan repudiated Protocol 1 in 1987 because it vitiated the distinction between lawful and unlawful enemy combatants. Terrorists fight out of uniform and target civilians and thus do not deserve traditional prisoner-of-war protections. This was the two-decade political consensus until the Bush Presidency. (Both the New York Times and the Washington Post editorialized in favor of Reagan's Protocol 1 decision.)

Our guess is that Mr. Obama has adopted Protocol 1 to appease the domestic Left and especially the "international community" that will be dismayed by his new embrace of Gitmo and George W. Bush's policies.

Mr. Obama is nonetheless complicating the task of U.S. terror fighters, and encouraging further barbarism, by extending the laws of war to terrorists who hold combat restrictions in contempt.

* IS ANYONE SURPRISED...? SERIOUSLY, FOLKS, WE NEED TO GET THIS MAN OUT OF OFFICE. HE'S DANGEROUS. THINK OF THE HARM HE'S DONE JUST IN THE PAST TWO PLUS YEARS.

March 8, 2011 at 8:30 AM

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