plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

Ah, remem­ber when

Habeas cor­pus … is the foun­da­tion of Anglo-American law, which says very sim­ply, if the gov­ern­ment grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ and say, ‘Maybe, you’ve got the wrong person.

The rea­son we have that safe­guard is we don’t always have the right per­son. We don’t always catch the right per­son. “We may think this is Muham­mad the ter­ror­ist. It might be Muham­mad the cab dri­ver. You may think it’s Barack the bomb-thrower. But it might be Barack, the guy run­ning for pres­i­dent. (Obama Defends Habeas Cor­pus for Sus­pected Ter­ror­ists).

Obama Decides to Hold Guan­tá­namo Ter­ror­ism Sus­pects Indef­i­nitely (or until they’re dead, which ever comes first) …

The Obama admin­is­tra­tion has decided not to seek new leg­is­la­tion from Con­gress autho­riz­ing the indef­i­nite deten­tion of about 50 ter­ror­ism sus­pects being held with­out charges at at Guan­tá­namo Bay, Cuba, offi­cials said Wednesday.

Instead, the admin­is­tra­tion will con­tinue to hold the detainees with­out bring­ing them to trial based on the power it says it has under the Con­gres­sional res­o­lu­tion passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, autho­riz­ing the pres­i­dent to use force against forces of Al Qaeda and the Tal­iban. (Obama to Use Cur­rent Law to Sup­port Deten­tions).

Team Obama adopts Team Bush Indefinite-Detention Posi­tion, i.e., Throw­ing Habeas Cor­pus Under The Bus …

Ed Mor­ris­sey com­ments fur­ther and argues, con­vinc­ingly, that Obama has adopted the Bush Ter­ror­ist Deten­tion posi­tion in its entirety.

(Dear Keth, a nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you).

Maybe we all mis-heard: it wasn’t “Hope and Change” — it was “Hope for Change.”  Well … keep hop­ing.  At least George W. Bush and the Neo-Cons are feel­ing relived to know they were right all along (sigh).

Tagged as: Obama, Terrorism