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In reply to the discussion: So is every complaint about Obama wrong? Or some people just don't like to hear them? [View all]Ferret Annica
(1,701 posts)as a battlefield is the straw that broke my back in terms of supporting Barack Obama for a second term. It is so horrendous a sword of Damocles to hang over our collective heads, I cannot ignore it.
I have been arrested on trumped up trespas charges when doing cop watch loclly, and know from having unfair arrest happen to me reminds me that measures like this once passed always wind up becoming put into use.
I have donated to Barack Obama this year, and I like him on a personal level, but I cannot support him and be true to my strong principles and love for the U.S. Constitution and vote for a pro-active supporter of this nonsense.
I do Forest activism and that battle is going to get crispy hot this next year, and I can see this measure being used to send many of us into the exile of indefinite imprisonment and torture. This troubles me greatly.
I am profoundly sad and disappointed in President Obama's support and advocacy for this sort of unconstitutional measure. I am really stung by the foolish hubris people who support this measure allowing indefinite detention, and I am a laughing stock in thee eyes of some progressive friends locally for arguing to them to support barack Obama as the only reasonable leap of faith to make.
I am very angry, amd feel like a chump.