AI Lashes Out At Obama Broken Promise
Candidate Barack Obama made many promises; many out of naiveté. It didn’t take long for the real world to catch up and the liberals (who worked hard for his campaign) are beyond feeling betrayed.
President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military commissions that in June 2008 he called an ‘enormous failure.’ In one swift move, Obama both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United States fights terrorism and undermines the nation’s core respect for the rule of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.
Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions do not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate standard of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism — they merely mock the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human rights standards.
If Amnesty International can find a state that will house the detainees, maybe they can find a court that will hear their cases. I wonder if Amnesty International can convince the American people that giving terror suspects access to intelligence (discovery) won’t wind up being transferred to the enemy.
That’s a big IF.
May 16th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
AI – professional whiners that won’t go after the really tough cases.
May 16th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
the only standard of justice for a terrorist is a bullet between the eyes.
there is no standard of justice for the victims of terrorism.
and who gives a shit about international law.
give them a fair trial then hang ‘em.