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Obama Says Use Of Military On Domestic Soil ‘Puts The Liberties Of All Americans At Risk’ (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Obama signed the 2012 NDAA which created the power troops wield as they are mobilized on US soil. It expanded the concept of the "battlefield" on the "war on terror" to include US soil, and empowered indefinite detention without charge or trial, and without the possibility for review, of anyone an offical could claim was a "terrorist". Including US citizens. All some pig has to say is that they suspect you of terrorism, and they can imprison you for life without trial and with no recourse for you. Which is clearly unconstitutional.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obamas-most-fateful-decis_b_1143005

If he didnt like it he should have vetoed it. He signed it instead. I hope he's proud of his legacy on that one.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I'm sure americans won't just bend over and take it. Again and again and again...

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

2A Folks: Harder daddy

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 17 points 2 days ago

It seems the use of military on foreign soil has already had that effect.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago

These people are just incapable of taking any kind of actual hard stance and speaking the truth, aren't they?

This is a fascist takeover, and zero democrat establishment types have called it what it is.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck you Obama. Fuck you.

You did so fucking little. You were a symbol, and you chose, and are continuing to choose, to be a useless, arrogant, generic politician.

Fuck this shit. Wake the fuck up, America. You all want Newsom in 2028? Have you lost your damn mind?! Shake the dust. Shake. The. Fucking. Dust.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

What do you suggest he do about it? Hasn't he been retired from public office for over a decade?

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 10 points 2 days ago

No shit Obama, but please feel free to stay on your lifetime vacation or whatever the fuck you're doing.

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

That’s right! They should only violate Americans rights when they’re overseas, right B?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don't be silly Barack, they'll be greeted as liberators. isn't that what Iraqis did?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Do you think Obama started the Iraq war, or...?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

no? but he did continue those wars and even escalate. he's the drone guy. the drone strikes on weddings guy. ask me how much i give a shit if he started it. my point wasn't that he started it, it's that it's funny how the US army presence all of a sudden seems bad when it's US soil when people like him were all too happy using that army on civilians of other countries.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

10X the drone strikes of Bush.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Did Obama say that the Iraqis would "greet us as liberators" like your previous comment references? It's amazing how often I see people blaming Obama for shit that Bush did.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i didn't say he said it. wasn't my point though. he was only a part of the same machine. this is about US foreign policy, not what barack personally did or didn't do.

btw it wasn't bush either. I'd get my facts straight if I were trying to "correct" me.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean... That's the point of a military. To deploy to foreign lands or repel a foreign invasion.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

you dear sweet naive fucking summer child, no. you're gonna learn what we were using the military for. i wonder if you will be so flippant about its purpose then.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I never said you couldn't disagree on its usage. That is the express purpose though. FOREIGN enemies.

Try reading next time. Believe me, Im very much against the mic, etc.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Something something strike something something overtake.

[–] srecko@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I thought Obama was a mythical creature that appears every four years to ruin the election.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

The guy who ordered 563 drone strikes, 10X his predecessor.

[–] QueenFern@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Barack Obama is a bitch

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, much better when they're on foreign soil.