Young Americans for Liberty – Ole Miss Chapter

It didn’t take long for Obama to become a suspected criminal once becoming president. Click here to read ThinkProgress.org’s article describing how Obama’s immunity granted to those who participated in torture is illegal under international law.  This would make him a criminal internationally and in the US.

After a campaign of attacks on the Bush Administration for their unlawful and abusive policies during their “War on Terror,” the Obama Administration has given mixed signals to the American people on how he plans to deal with those abuses. After embracing the State Secrets Privilege, which allows the president to completely throw out any case they “claim” involves secrets of the government, no matter how much evidence is presented, it is hard to make a case that the new president is working for the people.

In an article written by Margaret Talve and Lisa Taylor, some ideas are thrown around as to why, after going on a huge offensive attack against Bush, Obama has come out of the battle seeming extremely hypocritical.

Dick Cheney

During his interview with ABC last week, Dick Cheney made some interesting comments and confessions. When asked about the interrogation methods used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which involved waterboarding, Cheney admitted to knowing about them, supporting them, and, “helping to get the process cleared.” The United States is very familiar with waterboarding, and has treated it as a war crime historically. So what now is going to happen to Cheney? Under the Anti-Torture Statute of the United States , Cheney has admitted to a felony and should very well be indicted.

Michael Ratner, the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, believes Cheney is actually snooping for a presidential pardon. Go here to listen to his interview with the Real News. He believes Cheney could be afraid of getting prosecuted for his atrocious acts, and feels he would get along better with a pardon under his hat. Therefore, his admission was an act to put the pressure on Bush to pardon his vice president during his last days in office.

Will there be enough outrage to provoke somebody to prosecute our leaders when they break the law? I don’t believe Obama will have the guts to do it. He has been more than sketchy in matters dealing with political retribution. Perhaps he would be happy to have a spineless judicial system when he takes office and decides to break the law himself.

It was only a  matter of time before our government started sending out the marines in order to keep us under control. This holiday season, in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the military will be manning sobriety stations in San Bernardino County in California.

Militarization Engage

Is this just a first phase of a total militarization of the United States? Is our government perhaps getting nervous that its people will very soon stop being so friendly and actually get fed up with the horrible performance of its leaders?

DUI Blog reported:

A follow-up call to a Marine Corps public affairs sergeant resulted inassurances that the Marines would be there “as observers”.

I wonder what they will be observing for? If they wanted to just observe drunk drivers, must they do it in uniform? Oh wait, doesn’t action usually come after observation? This seems like a good way for them to get some experience on keeping us citizens in line so as to not upset the higher ups.