If Mr. Obama were to take a deep breath, look back and take a lesson from some of America’s darkest days, here’s what he would find:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22684.htm
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Facts and Myths about Obama’s Preventive Detention Proposal
By Glenn Greenwald
In the wake of Obama’s speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new converts who now support indefinite “preventive detention.” It thus seems constructive to have as dispassionate and fact-based discussion as possible of the implications of “preventive detention” and Obama’s related detention proposals (military commissions).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22688.htm
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Indefinite Detention? Shame on you… President Obama
By Rachel Maddow
Don’t miss this 7 minute video.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22690.htm
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Biden in Lebanon warns Hezbollah:
Confident its alliance will win, Hezbollah criticized Biden’s visit as a U.S. attempt to influence the June 7 vote and held a mass rally to show its popular support.
http://snipurl.com/ikzlx
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Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture:
Chicago radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he’d get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn’t torture. It didn’t turn out that way. “Mancow,” in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds before crying foul.
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/conservative-radio-hosts-waterboarded/
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Change…. What change?
Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Some:
President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104045_pf.html
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US urged to resettle Uighur inmates:
Seventeen men cleared for release four years ago still held at Guantanamo.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/05/2009521212011223920.html
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims:
‘Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-how-mi5-blackmails-british-muslims-1688618.html
