If it slithers like a snake! - International Injustice/Law

As incriminating evidence mounts, indicating that torture was primarily utilised by the former US administration to extract ‘confessions’ and make a case to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq, ‘George W Obama’ continues to protect those responsible by withholding photographic evidence of torture and failing to prosecute known war criminals. Furthermore, Obama has not only failed to eliminate military kangaroo trials for torture ravaged Guantanamo detainees he has re-activated their use!

Obama’s most ardent supporters must be finding it difficult to ignore the hard reality that Obama is nothing more than criminal business as usual with a smiling face.

Prosecuting wars of invasion and occupation, protecting torturers, reviving most of the policies of the former regime, including the continued provocation of Russia and China, one could hardly be surprised to learn that Obama was first employed professionally by ‘kiss of death,’ Henry Kissinger and remains a loyal member of the Bilderberg group.

Some progressives imagine Obama has back-flipped or reneged on his promises but the latest revival of kangaroo court commissions for tortured detainees leaves no doubt whatsoever, this man is a criminal fraud no better than his predecessors; “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

The call goes out again -- we know what we must do!

Peace only prevails when the causes of chaos are subdued.

Anyone who has ever wasted good money on a clunker only to drop the transmission 15 minutes after leaving the car-lot, knows the feeling. It's like a swift-kick in the groin followed by weeks of fist-pounding rage. It's called buyer's remorse; "Gawd, I wish I hadn't bought that heap of shit!"

There are probably a lot of former-Obama supporters feeling that same agonizing sense of despair now that President Rainbow has done an about-face on every campaign promise he made. So much for INTEGRITY and "change we can believe in", eh?

What a disaster. Did anyone know it was gonna be this bad?

For the record; I didn't vote for Obama because I didn't like the way he backpedaled on wiretapping and because he promised to escalate the war in Afghanistan. (Like everyone else who voted for Ralph Nader; I got loads of grief for it) But that doesn't mean I didn't want Obama to succeed. I did. The country is in too big a mess NOT to hope that he would succeed. But now...?

Let's just forget about the fact that Obama never lifted a finger to stop Israel's two week rampage through Gaza which killed 1,100 unarmed civilians and destroyed much of the critical infrastructure. And let's give him a pass for equivocating on Iran, Georgia, missile defense in East Europe, Cuba, NAFTA, FISA, torture, war crimes, the Employee free Choice Act (EFCA) and any other issue that's important to liberals, progressives, leftists or anyone else who eats with a fork or walks on two legs. And let's excuse Obama for stepping up the air war in Afghanistan even though another 140 Afghan villagers were blown to bits 10 days ago while sitting in their schools, sleeping in their beds or having dinner with their families. (After all, Obama did say he was sorry, didn't he?)

But now Obama is backing off on his promise to withdrawal troops from Iraq in 16 months. And, now he's planning to restore Bush's kangaroo courts (Military tribunals) for prisoners at Guantanamo who've never even been formally charged with a crime! And, now, he's threatening to hold some prisoners indefinitely in the U.S. without trial. (http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/14/obama-mulls-indefinite-detention-without-trial-for-detainees/)

I don't know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your ass in jail. That's numero uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American" in my book because they don't believe in the underlying principles.

Does Khalid Sheik Mohamed--the so-called "9-11 mastermind"-- deserve his day in court?

You're damn right he does! That's how the system works. Deal with it.

Obama is an unprincipled poseur; a snake charmer; a complete phony. No wonder the gushing David Brooks has been singing his praises lately. No wonder Andrew Sullivan calls him the "Neocon in Chief". Heck, even Cheney was talking-up Obama's bloody AfPak policy a few days ago. That says it all, doesn't it?

Here's a blurb from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, that sums up Obama perfectly:

"Mr. Obama deserves credit for accepting that civilians courts are largely unsuited for the realities of the war on terror. He has now decided to preserve a tribunal process that will be identical in every material way to the one favored by Dick Cheney."

Hypocrite!

We demand a refund or swap for a REAL representative, leader.

[Edited version.]

© 2009 Mike Whitney, Global Research (and 'fingers')

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