Well, it's summer again, and maybe I'll try to resurface a bit on the old bloggy-poo. And, after all, it's thing's like Obama's new plan for justifying indefinite, preventive detention of terror suspects that make taking loud public stances on things seem, not obnoxious (as one poet in me may feel), but kinda necessary (as another poet in me is pleading).
Glenn Greenwald makes a clear case here for how unacceptable Obama's speech, and plan, was/is.
I think it's important for all of us to be loudly and articulately opposing Obama's plan in the days/weeks/months to come. And while the whole thing makes me lose plenty of faith in the Obama administration, there's still time to change public perception on this issue----something to which Obama is perhaps more sensitive than his predecessor. The NYtimes (online) headline today reads:
President’s Detention Plan Tests American Legal Tradition
Determining the constitutionality of President Obama’s proposal for “prolonged detention” of terror suspects without trial is likely to require a national look in the mirror.
If a major media news outlet is framing this as questionable from the outset, then there's at least some hope here. Let's be vocal.
