Posts Tagged ‘gitmo’

Where to try the terrorists

January 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Barack Obama, when campaigning, promised he’d try international terrorists in civilian courts.  Holding up to that promise, he decided it should be downtown New York City.  You know, that place with something like 10,000,000 people living within the federal courthouse.  To be blunt, that’s just stupid.  It was the fact a terrorist was going to [...]

Ray Manzullo’s savage religion

November 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Ray Manzullo made this unfortunate comment a little while ago: U.S. Rep. Donald Manzullo told WREX-TV in Rockford, Ill., that alleged terrorists imprisoned at the Navy base are “really really mean people whose job it is to kill people, driven by some savage religion.” He then went on to clarify a little: He said he [...]

The difference between “dark ages” and “black ages”?

September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doesn’t particularly like being a prisoner in Guantanamo.  Call it Gitmo if you wish.  For about eight years, he had tons of supporters that didn’t want him in Gitmo either.  Problem was, once Bush was out of office and Obama said he’d close it down, everyone forgot all about Gitmo.  Once forgotten [...]

Ordering pizza in 2012

August 18th, 2009 | No Comments

This is kinda funny.  And, kinda possible. Not sure I trust the ACLU to stop it from happening tho. Are you thinking twice before you order your next pizza? We may not live in a society where government and private corporations collude to track your every move — not yet anyways. But, we are fast [...]

Change we can believe in – civil liberties, Gitmo, indefinite detentions

May 14th, 2009 | No Comments

On August 1, 2007, Obama posted on his site a long list of what he would do as President. Part of that included: …..This brings me to the fourth step in my strategy: I will make clear that the days of compromising our values are over. Major General Paul Eaton had a long and distinguished [...]