Thursday, December 15, 2011

Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, December 15, 2011


Screw those ding-dong bastards over at NRO!

(Here's the truth, kids!)
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-obama

Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on U.S. soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

* ONE... MORE... TIME...

Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on U.S. soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

* WELL, FOLKS...? THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS - WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THIS LATEST?!

Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing.

* HIS PRINCIPLES. WHAT A LAUGH!

The legislation has also been strongly criticised by libertarians on the right angered at the stripping of individual rights for the duration of "a war that appears to have no end."

* THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS A WAR WITH NO END. GOD DAMN BUSH TO HELL...

(*SIGH*)

* YEAH... I SAID BUSH. BUSH AND NOW OBAMA. REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU AND TELLING YOU AND TELLING YOU...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

[T]he law's critics describe it as a draconian piece of legislation that extends the reach of detention without trial to include US citizens arrested in their own country. "It's something so radical that it would have been considered crazy had it been pushed by the Bush administration," said Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch. "It establishes precisely the kind of system that the United States has consistently urged other countries not to adopt."

(*NOD*)

"At a time when the United States is urging Egypt, for example, to scrap its emergency law and military courts, this is not consistent," [insists Malinowski].

* FOLKS... IN A MILLION YEARS I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OUR COUNTRY COULD COME TO THIS IN A PERIOD OF BASICALLY 10 YEARS.

The Senate is expected to give final approval to the bill before the end of the week. It will then go to the president, who previously said he would block the legislation...

* FOLKS. I'M JUST SICK TO MY STOMACH. FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW THE LINK AND READ THE FULL ARTICLE FOR YOURSELVES.

December 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer

Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the U.S. military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran.

* IS HE TELLING THE TRUTH? WHO KNOWS! HOWEVER... (READ ON...)

Western military experts and a number of published papers on GPS spoofing indicate that the scenario described by the Iranian engineer is plausible. "Even modern combat-grade GPS is very susceptible” to manipulation, says former US Navy electronic warfare specialist Robert Densmore, adding that it is “certainly possible” to recalibrate the GPS on a drone so that it flies on a different course. “I wouldn't say it's easy, but the technology is there.”

(*SHRUG*)

Iran asserted its ability to do this in September, as pressure mounted over its nuclear program.

* SEPTEMBER... AND YET... WE DIDN'T PATCH THE VULNERABILITY...??? IS IT POSSIBLE WE'RE THIS INCOMPETENT? SADLY... YES.

* BTW, FOLKS... YOU DO ALL REALIZE, I HOPE, THAT WE'RE BASICALLY AT WAR WITH IRAN - RIGHT? WHILE OF COURSE I PRAY TO GOD THAT IRAN DOESN'T SUCCEED IN RETALIATORY ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. TARGETS, MY GUESS IS THAT SOONER OR LATER THESE ATTACKS WILL COME - AND SOONER OR LATER ONE WILL SUCCEED.

December 15, 2011 at 3:07 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-feds-arpaio-violated-civil-rights-164947314.html

The federal government issued a scathing report Thursday that outlines how Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office has committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination and carrying out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints.

* BY "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" WE'RE TALKING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. WE'RE TALKING ERIC HOLDER. NEED I SAY ANY MORE?

* JOE ARPAIO IS A GREAT MAN... A GREAT PATRIOT... A COMPETENT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL WHO STANDS FOR INTEGRITY AND THE RULE OF LAW. GOD BLESS JOE ARPAIO!

December 15, 2011 at 3:21 PM

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