Obama's Hypocrisy on Murder
source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-26/the-terrorist-next-door/?cid=hp:be...
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We’ve always understood that, when it comes to giving the state power to protect us, there’s an inevitable tradeoff between security and liberty.
This tradeoff is all the more complicated because the more power we give the government to protect us, the more danger we run of making the government something we will end up needing to be protected from.
That is why, until very recently, the idea that you can’t put people in prison just because you believe they’re dangerous was so obvious it didn’t need to be defended.
It went without saying that to imprison someone at all, let alone indefinitely, you needed to convict them of a crime. Now, apparently, this most basic of American political principles is being tossed out the window in the name of keeping us “safe.”
This tradeoff is all the more complicated because the more power we give the government to protect us, the more danger we run of making the government something we will end up needing to be protected from.
That is why, until very recently, the idea that you can’t put people in prison just because you believe they’re dangerous was so obvious it didn’t need to be defended.
It went without saying that to imprison someone at all, let alone indefinitely, you needed to convict them of a crime. Now, apparently, this most basic of American political principles is being tossed out the window in the name of keeping us “safe.”
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- Politics, War, Fascism creep
