- The United States: Hey you better not get nuclear weapons because you're a dangerous country that might attack others for no good reason and you'll probably drop those weapons on innocent civilians.
- Iran:
- North Korea:
- The United States:
- Iran:
- North Korea: Hirosh-
- The United States: SHUT UP.
Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill (NDAA), Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can Be Indefinitely Detained Without a Trial
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Despite having once threatened to veto the bill due to controversial language about the treatment of suspected terrorists, the president signed the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on Saturday. Barack Obama did not keep his lingering concerns about aspects of the bill law a secret, however.
In justifying his decision to sign NDAA into law, Obama said in a statement, “I have signed the Act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families, and vital national security programs that must be renewed.”
He continued, “The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.”
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/12/obama-makes-it-official-suspected-terrorists-can-be-indefinitely-detained-without-trial/46818/
http://www.memeorandum.com/111231/p30#a111231p30
“I didn’t want to sign it but I did anyway, lol” -BaraObabo
Nooooooo, whhhhyyyy?
When there are provisions of a bill that are unquestionably unconstitutional but you generally like the rest of the bill, you don’t sign it. If Carl Levin is telling the truth, in actuality, Obama loves this bill and wishes it was more deferential to the executive.
Not buying it, Obama. Congratulations on outdoing the Bush administration with violations of civil liberties.
I’ve said it a thousand times and I’ll say it a thousand more - FUCK YOU OBAMA. Mohandasgandhi is totally correct. His administration has far outstripped the Bush admin. in stomping all over the constitution and attacking our civil rights left and right. He’s just smarter and sneakier about the way he does it, which makes it even scarier. In terms of what really matters: civil rights, he’s demonstrably more right wing than a lot of Republicans. Think about that for a minute.
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Some girl is screeching at me on Facebook because I criticised the President because of the drone attacks in Pakistan. She’s all like ‘he would never kill innocent people, they’re all terrorists and you are LYING.’ And I’m just ‘lol Obamatrons.’
That’s really sad. Sad that someone is so blinded by our own propaganda that she can’t see that America is the bad guy here. America is the terrorist. And Obama is a massive hypocrite.
There are not enough ways in which I can voice my disgust for Obama’s civillian-murdering, war-mongering and constitution-stomping.
(Source: antesdachuva)
The store I work in (Cabela’s obviously) sells this t-shirt.
Translation: “Either blindly support America’s wars of aggression in which hundreds of thousands of civilians are murdered (but they’re brown, so they’re all terrorists anyways), or we’ll shoot you in the head. Either way, America wins!”
Please get me out of here.
(Photo) Campaigned on closing Guantanamo Bay … Signs law allowing indefinite detention of American citizens
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So the whole reason we need more prisons built is to house non-violent drug offenders?
LTMC: And 80-90% of those so-called drug offenders are Black, despite the fact that all racial groups commit crime at remarkably similar rates, and some studies suggest that Blacks actually use drugs less frequently than whites.
Totally not a (racist) police state.
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Always reblog.
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When people accuse me of being an “extremist” or a “radical” for citing the United States as a hegemonic terrorist organization, I reply with 2 words, proceed to throw the mic on the ground, and then walk away:
Latin. America.
There is no denying that what we did in Latin America, especially Nicaragua and El Salvador, was absolutely terrorism unless one chooses to rest their case on dishonesty or ignore the atrocities we helped commit and sponsor. One simply cannot understand Latin American politics today without first understanding what we did and why.
Don’t even get me started on the atrocities committed by the U.S. in the Middle East. It’s not radical to tell the truth.
“It’s not radical to tell the truth.”
It’s possible to argue that the Holocaust affected the United States more than any other country, and many scholars do. The perceptions of Jews changed drastically, in public, that is, compared to the violent anti-Semitic rhetoric of the past. It was very easy to sympathize with the plight of the Jewish people after what was done, for after all, the United States claims to be a country of immigrants (and it is) composed of people who escaped the persecution and oppression of their motherlands. The United States and the Soviet Union took it upon themselves to film and release a great deal of footage onto its people as they liberated concentration camps in Europe. Americans were appalled that such a thing could happen in an industrialized and “civilized” society. “Never again,” we said, as we promised to give our humanitarian interests more consideration in the future. In 1945, 84% of the U.S. Jewish population and 82% of the general U.S. population agreed with the sentiment that a Jewish state of some sorts must be established in Palestine and thanks in large part to Truman’s diplomacy, it was. How ironic it is that we, perpetrators of mass genocide against the Native Americans and true sovereigns of our nation, find the treatment of the Jewish Holocaust victims so depraved and immoral that we ignore our past and choose to vehemently stand alongside Zionist-occupied Palestine, which commits many similar crimes onto its Arab population and in the end, only harms the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish faith.
If it is true that those who look upon evil acts with indifference are indeed the most evil of all, then we are more guilty than all the rest. One needs only to look to our leaders and to our mainstream press for such evidence. Sometimes, it is truly embarrassing to be an American.
I agree with all of this. It is frightening how rapidly we repeat our own history and how quickly we forget the lessons we told ourselves we would never forget.
i’ve had my shirt off at work recently and people are all like, “WHAT’S THAT THING ON YOUR BACK?”
i just tell them that it’s the major river systems of the United States— and they’re all like, “WELL THAT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THE UNITED STATES…”
and i just smile. because that’s the point. i hardly ever tell people why i got the tattoo because they are turned off by my explanation.
but when i explain, i say: “it’s a critique of nationalism, of borders, of conceptions of space. it’s a promotion of fluidity in cultures and in the self.” i state that my tattoo is inspired by the writings of Gloria Anzaldua on border cultures and border peoples (both actually and conceptually), but most folks are unfortunately unfamiliar with her writing.
but there’s also my geographer side to it. i think it’s cool that John Wesley Powell once stated that the places we live would be better off demarcated by the watershed we live in (even though i dislike the concept of demarcation). few took his thoughts seriously on the matter, so now we have many national and state borders found in rivers (like the Rio Grande or the Ohio). this really doesn’t make sense because rivers are the centers of their watersheds and greater ecosystems, not the harsh edge. to have a river on the fringe in this way highlights the disregard humans have concerning viewing themselves as part of the environment in which they live and the disregard colonialism often has for the surroundings in which it usurps.
I agree with all of this. Borders, whether local or national are arbitrary and artificial. Every human has the right to migrate.
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Occupy all the things
Hilarity and current politics at the same time. Awesome.
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Oh my god, we killed Awlaki’s 16 year old American son, too.
Killing children Obama? Really? You’re despicable.
I hate him. I really fucking hate Obama. There is no justification for murdering anyone, but for a CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER to so casually disregard the fundamentals of the constitution (basic right to due process anyone?!) and allow the murder of a fucking child, and in the process murder another, is beyond evil. Obama truly is Bush part 2. Sure, he’s not a religious nut-case, but maybe that’s worse.
It looks like the right wing was right about one thing, Obama might not be a communist, socialist, Muslim, or even a liberal, but he’s turned into quite the war-mongering, war-crimes committing, constitution flouting, proto-fascist.
Fuck you Obama. Fuck you to fucking hell.
This and so many other reasons is why I’m an anarchist. Power corrupts. No person should be in authority over another.
I hate, hate, hate the US government. It’s so creepy and menacing and obsessed with keeping everything secret and thinks it can ignore any laws or parts of the constitution that are even slightly inconveniencing its (secret!) goals.
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The Indians, Columbus reported, “are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone….” He concluded his report by asking for a little help from their Majesties, and in return he would bring them from his next voyage “as much gold as they need … and as many slaves as they ask.” […]
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. […]
Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards. In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. When it became clear that there was no gold left, the Indians were taken as slave labor on huge estates, known later as encomiendas. They were worked at a ferocious pace, and died by the thousands. By the year 1515, there were perhaps fifty thousand Indians left. By 1550, there were five hundred. A report of the year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or their descendants left on the island.
God bless America.
Happy Columbus Genocide Day!
