The Z Spot

This is quite possibly the biggest and best example so far of Obama’s hypocrisy. For someone who promises change, all we can expect to change is the location and name of what’s going on.

Instead of holding them as enemy detainees, we will now be holding these prisoners in “prolonged detainment.” Within our own borders, instead of in Guantanamo.

Instead of military tribunals, they will be going through a sort of new tribunal which denies them many of the same rights as the current system. Not only that, but prosecutors will be able to decide what form of trial (military, civilian, or this new system), based on the sensitivity, and, get this, the strength, of the evidence against them.

Now, given the national security situation, and given the mess that Obama walked into, I’m sure that there are things that he now knows that a) we don’t, and b) he didn’t before he was President.

The honorable thing, however, if that is what has caused this course of action, would be to admit that there is information which is necessary to keep safe from the public view, which justify continuing on the course (minus the torture, of course), that the Bush administration was on.

Instead, Obama feels the need to maintain his image of “change,” prioritizing his political image over what’s best for the nation. Is that why we elected him President?

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