Obama -- Despot in Chief?

Via Hot Air -- from the NYT Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan

WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.

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“He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said. “We’ve known this is on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”

The other participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held at Guantánamo Bay, but rather for those captured in the future, in settings other than a legitimate battlefield like Afghanistan. “The issue is,” the participant said, “What are the options left open to a future president?”

"Settings other than legitimate battlefields" -- like Limbaugh's studio or the living rooms of negative thinking citizens? That's where the real terrorists are according to the deranged left.

Unnamed "human rights advocates" were told Obama hadn't made up his mind whether or not to arbitrarily change our legal system! The changes they knew "were on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush." What nonsense.

I always wondered how people like Hitler and other despicable despots got elected and re-elected by people who should have known better and how they were allowed to grab more and more power with barely a murmur from the people.

Now I see it happening here. Nobody seems to care that Obama in four months has completely changed the office of the presidency by basically dictating to private industry how they should operate and confiscating the property of stock and bond holders.

He plans a civilian "army" beholden only to him and has allocated billions of tax payer funds to his own group of thugs in ACORN.

Obama isn't shredding the Constitution, he's ignoring it and only a few of us right wing lunatics seem to care.