Obama: Change We Can’t Believe In
June 6, 2011 at 7:14 PM Leave a comment
I have been agonizing for more than a year as to what I’m going to do come November, 2012. The question as I see it is (1) do I vote for Obama — giving him the benefit of the doubt — who has, in my opinion, gone against most of his prior pronouncements and campaign promises, or (2) do I sit the election out altogether because I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of voting for people who, once in office, seem to be brainwashed and captured by corporate and military interests.
This news makes me want to sit it out because this is not what I voted for and this is not, by far, the first time I’ve been disappointed in Obama.. Obama’s a Constitutional lawyer, yet he has has (1) utterly abandoned his principles or he (2) seems to be so weak that he’s being held hostage by his military advisers:
U.S. President Barack Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention center at Bagram Air Base, the Afghan cousin of the notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
There are currently more than 1,700 detainees at Bagram, up from over 600 at the end of the Bush administration.
The situation at Bagram, especially the legal process that determines whether detainees are released, is the subject of a new report by Human Rights First.
It finds that the current system of hearings for detainees “falls short of the requirements of international law” because they are not given “an adequate opportunity to defend themselves against charges that they are collaborating with insurgents and present a threat to U.S. forces”.
Human Rights First also argues that cases of unjustified imprisonment are damaging the broader war effort by undermining Afghans’ trust in the military.
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I’ll probably make up my mind on November 1, 2012 but man oh man, there are so many notches in my bedpost against voting for Obama.
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