Phew!! Glad George Bush wasn't aroud for this...

[Rudeboyelvis]

... Because certainly Captain Hope and Change would never stand for a policy that allows the government to indiscriminately round up and detain American citizens, without due process, in violation of the 5th 6th and 7th amendments to the Constitution, and sequester them at Gitmo indefinitely - right?

RIGHT???!!!

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 US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

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. 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".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...etention-obama