Obama Announces Detaining Americans for Future Crimes that Have Not Been Committed

[RomulanMastermind]

THE CIA HAS MIND READING AND MIND CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

OBAMA JUST DOESN'T WANT TO SPELL IT OUT

[DarkSifu]

This chick is a joke.. I remember about 2 years ago she was singing his praises.. Hows the hope and change workin out for you. shmucks cant even see past there noses.

[DarkSifu]

@DarkSifu Not only that but half the idiots that voted for this guy believed his promise to close gitmo.. now hes adding more members too it.. What a club! what a guy! the messiah rite?

[mojoidol]

James Madison--"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

[TheBoHoBoy]

Just wait till you have a dictstorship in the USA lol And you all have to walk about with , Stars, crosses, etc sewn onto the sleeves of your clothes and the chip in ya arm . I dont think you lot will have long to wait

[syp808]

I support NOBAMA:)

[NoCutCard612]

Fuck Obama and the morons who still support him even after he's shown who he really is on more than one occasion. There are those who used to give me shit for not supporting that puppet, but are now admitting that I was "on to something". You're DAMN RIGHT I was on to something. The joke's on you!

[w0y1z92753]

@NoCutCard612 Actually the jokes on everyone.

[anotherwhitewierdo]

thought crimes huh? well send out your goons for me barry! cause i think you are a cocksucker! I think you are a thief! i think you should be hanged in the street for treason! I think you are a nwo puppett! I think your wife is a fat assed hipocrit! i think your daughters names sound like diseases! I think you engineered the swine flu! I think you are a clone of some kind! I think a black president should not live in govt housing for the sake of stereotypes! i know a war is coming! expect us!

[poopmcscoopface]

the Minority report was a boring movie but the idea the movie had was pretty cool

[TheBoHoBoy]

@poopmcscoopface  your president thought it was cool as well, cool enough to try and implement it

[orionprime]

Obama is Hitler!!! if you don;t see it, then you are blind!!!

[PhillyEagles10]

Obama please no.. nonononono.... this isnt you... please tell me someone threatened him and his family and is making him do this.... crap.

Ron Paul 2012!

[reggielittle25]

This video went viral on Harare

[Warpathrecords1]

If anyone thinks votes are going to undo this is wrong because the elections are rigged and the power has already been seized it too late for votes

[Born2Flesh]

Obama is not a Black American, Obama is a "African American. <---- DON'T GET THEM CONFUSED. Obama has no ancestors that served as slaves in the USA, South America, or anywhere else. As of 9/1/2011, all Bush policies are still in effect, Joe Biden is an admitted Zionist, Obama's Cabinet consist of mostly "Jews" with dual citizenship, and nothing has changed.

Obama was groomed at Harvard as a African American, not a Black American. ...Unlike Moses, Obama has no connection to the slaves.

[oconnell471]

I dont advocate for Obama but the second point of this video is quite a stretch

[FiveofHearts1]

When even Maddow can see how full of shit he is? You know Obama jumped the shark.

[zekdom]

The Minority Report?

[nibbler032]

you americans , black white, male female any president you have are nazis, they are about power , i remember how everyone thought obama was amazing , pretty much because he was black and that represented a change to the system . he just a black bush . who ever you have next will be a cunt as well.

[dracozny]

Impeach the SOB and charge him with treason!

[lorigonzo1]

Rachel Maddow's Liberal twists and lies can never be trusted. This is Liberal Journalism.

[marie198621]

wow i really hope he only gets one term

[braindeadliberals]

@marie198621 I hope he only gets one term too, of at least 25 years to life for treason.

[jhaliburton]

Maddow and the rest of the MSNBC crew have been calling for an expedient plan of action ever since Abu Ghraib came under investigation in 2004. The last administration played hot potato with it because it's political suicide to lobby for the rights of state enemies. Maddow definitely cuts the speech into so many parts that it cuts the legs from the integrity of the story but the take home message is that instead of "change", the current administration has opted to continue tossing the potato.

[imatthegates]

@mikerockwell1975 You are missing the fucking point. She is drawing incorrect conclusions from a clips of his speech about what he intends to do. I don't agree or disagree with what he is doing I was condemning her journalism techniques because the are indeed shameful. As for what I think he is saying, if anyone cares, he suggesting a framework for the detention of POWs possibly making it more transparent than Bush's administration. By the way, fuck you for the personal attack.

[imatthegates]

This woman's argument is such a piece of shit. The entire argument is flawed but one stand out ridiculous conclusion drawn is near the end of the speech when Obama makes the statement that entities over seas will be plotting against us for years (5 years 10 years etc.) and by some stretch of her imagination she claims that his intention is to imprison these people for the amounts of time he previously stated. If thats not putting words into someone's mouth I don't know what is. Shame on you.

[mikerockwell1975]

@imatthegates You're not too smart, are you? Do you not "get" the idea she was describing here? She wasn't using 10 years as fact, she was just using it as an example. So, just going off Obama's OWN WORDS, what do you think he's saying??? I'm beginning to think maybe you work for this evil man. Shame on you.

[genelawdog]

Obama is a master at speaking out both sides of his mouth at the same time. Bush rebooted. Obama sucks! One term!

[petewalker274]

Who was the first Orwell president? Probably Washington because he listened to Hamilton and started a central bank, did the Shay rebellion thing, etc.

[Emil246]

damn it keeps getting worse and only a few are doing something about it.

[callouschristian]

Obama is worse than bush and I'm starting to believe that Joe Biden ( the funny "village idiot sidekick") is the illuminati bird in his ear....he's a white guy who has been in power for too long and his little act is very transparent.

[valeriechiri]

I don't need a commentator to tell me what another means. I did not hear all of this speech first, people edit and interpret a story or speech how they will @Tony Montague I agree with everything you said. I believe this is a preventive method to keep us safe. I would have to hear the entire speech secondly, but as it stands now he is fair in his stance. If he started this then you guys might have a point. He did not. He has to use wisdom to keep peace and to end this war. Come On People.B real

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@JZJYRWO - How is the only fear mongering? I think she is right. Obama wants to make it legal to do what the Bush administration did somewhat by fiat. If Obamas "solution" to violating the First Amendment, to take a fictional example, was to abolish the first Amendment so that his administration could legally stop freedom of speech, it would be the same thing. It is worse then Bush.

[Yababoos123]

Obama is worst than Bush in all areas.

Anyone rational can conclude that holding someone for past crimes they are suspected of is far more understandable than holding them for crimes that haven't happened.

[Aaya74]

Yay for taking random clips out of context to make something sound completely different.

[TonyMontague]

Funny how the neo-con commentator fails to mention that this speech was in regards only to the current detainees at Guantanamo that can't be properly tried due to the Bush Administration's destruction of or mishandling of evidence. This piece is nothing but very blatant fear mongering and there was NO mention of such detainment being used against American citizens. Do your homeowrk people and don't just this stuff as gospel when they only use out of context clips to make it seem bad.

[prothonotar]

@TonyMontague did you just call Rachel Maddow a neo-con? LOL.

[OprahsMingeSaid]

Obama can only control you if you let him.

[SwishaMane420]

DISGUSTING. Glad hes only talking about the corporation of the UNITED STATES. If he was talking about the republic, this could be bad. This man represents nothing, but sheep and greed.

[NCIcaucus]

When will Americans on both sides of issues realize that we have ONE party!

[XxUrSoLoStxX]

This pos is standing there telling us to accept him as dictator.

[joetalk100]

NOBODY GIVE A FUCK, ANY7MORE

[dinotheorist]

When you don't do the common sense, constitutional thing to protect the country from foreign threats (defend the border, regulate immigration) then you have to start doing WEIRD things to protect the country. Of course, US drug consumption is funding the lack of common sense, destroying US karma if you will, and leaving gaps in our spiritual armor you could drive a border-crashing truck through. Our poverty will come upon us as an armed man...

[OtherOne81]

holy shit. if Bush did this the leftist koolaid chuggers would be rioting in the streets. 

[tashi28]

@MKrip808 search obama ends iraqi war. You do realize that Obama set a date to withdraw troops his first year in office and is currently sticking to them as agreed to by a sovereign iraqi government? He is elected and it doesn't look like he cares to win re-election. If he was willing to do anything to get RE-elected he wouldn't press his positions as hard as he is. I think you can remove Chicago from your second to last sentence.

[tashi28]

Am I the only one that realizes that Obama is talking about prisoners of war in guantanamo bay. The future crimes that she refers to are acts of terror. The minority report is used to add a outrageous poor comparison to strike fear in viewers. Her stunning revelation misses the point that under Bush we falsely imprisoned middle eastern civilians and that we need legitimate cause to detain possible terrorists. Poor reporting, this is more misinformation.

[zoroz3]

IMPEACH HIS ASS!

[phareke]

whether the news is valid or not, the woman annoys me... she sucks big time and I can't stand listening to her.

[planetery]

@phareke Then you will always be a slave to propaganda that is presented in a matter you CAN swallow.

Informed populace: FAIL.

[moety2]

You people think it would have been any different if it was somebody else as president? lolol Everything is based on money or resources. How can anyone believe we will get anything other then these same results in this system we live in? "They call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" George Carlin

[georginaq]

@Draughon32 You and the other 2 that like your post should be put in jail for your rudeness and be charge with detain for future crimes against American people for using this word.

[523Rene]

Rachael IS a lie. How can I listen to a woman...who wants us to thinks she is a man.

She wants us to believe she is a guy...she's "married" to a woman...somehow. SHe is a lie...how can I believe anything she says. Why hasn't she reported about his Birth Certificate. She reports WHAT she wants, WHen she wants.Bhe's bullshit.

[DieselSlade]

Thank God we are not getting RAHM EMMANUEL for Mayor of Chicago.

Hes a cocky sob. He said, "Oh this is going to the supreme court".

I guess a judge in IL, said that "RAHM you havent lived in Chicago over a year, you cant run for mayor."

This is off subject, but watch what OBAMA does to get Rahm as Mayor. F ing SICK!

[MKrip808]

This comes from the man who ran on a platform that included getting American troops out of Iraq asap. Once he gets elected and has the people behind the curtains whispering in his ear, he quickly changed his tune. He's a typical Chicago politician. He'll lie, cheat and do anything in order to get elected.

[DieselSlade]

@MKrip808 Typical Chicago Politician! YES! they are all douches. You should google Joe Walsh, He is our Congressman from IL, and a friend of the family.

[tashi28]

@MKrip808 search obama ends iraq war.

[MKrip808]

@IrishDudeNamedShamus well anymore they define terrorist as a legal gun owner, a Ron Paul supporter, a parent that home schools their children, someone who distrusts government, someone who questions authority as well as those who support the Constitution.

[kade0868]

this is from May 2009 and the left was pissed because the "Prolonged Detentions" were pertaining to the GITMO prisoners that they wanted freed so bad and to have court dates... I hate Obama myself but this is totally out of context.

[kade0868]

This report was from May 2009 .... I wonder who posted it a few days ago - everyone was in an uproar even the far left after he made this speech - the ACLU was all over this.

[stainless1911]

@IrishDudeNamedShamus They did allude to the terrorists.

[Bigtol4u]

STUPID IDEA!

[castrolSRT]

Ummm, you know that some of us believe that neither side has our best interest at heart, right?

[samuraiartguy]

The linchpin of the argument rests on whether terrorists are criminals or enemy combatants under the law. And what definition applies when the potential detainees are US Citizens, Resident Aliens, or apprehended outside US borders.

Let's make more legal mess, And DAMN yes, a slippery slope, and the President should frakkin' know better.

[tashi28]

@samuraiartguy solid comment! It's nice to know that I'm not the only one with a brain. Unfortunately most people can't make the distinction between innocent civilians and terrorists as Maddow attempts to disolve the barrier of guantanomo prisoners and say, somebody that was arrested for dui.

[BoredomCorner]

@JTF4theNetherlands I have an idea: I'll report you to the FBI.

[BoredomCorner]

*headdesks*

[WyoArkie]

All I have to say is look at the old Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Red China to see what "prolonged dentention" will do to this country.

[BoredomCorner]

@WyoArkie Heck, it already did a number on North America with the Patriot Act.

[milkchaser]

Bush's approach was quite deliberate and carefully planned. Obama is free to disagree with Bush's approach, but he mischaracterizes it for political effect. I'd like to hear him say this in a face-to-face debate with Dick Cheney. Cheney would destroy these contentions.

[BoredomCorner]

@milkchaser Yeah sure, so deliberate that he tended to jail people at random, who very often turned out to have not done anything wrong.

[aslynelf]

I usually do not like Rachel Maddow, but in this instance I have to agree with her. Obama is going to far and this proposal of prolonged detention violates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You cannot arrest someone indefinitely just because you think they might commit a crime. This proposal is treasonous and un-American.

[phobass]

@aslynelf The Patriot Act is just as bad.

[Avaindiana]

What did they re write the constitution? wail I was not looking?

[eliotbernstein]

Hang them all for TREASON and WAR CRIMES, Can you say Uncle Tom ObamaRenigOrama, actually a Republican, Brain = Zbigotnew Rockafella Stooge and worked for Foley & Lardner and CEO Michael Grebe Chief Counsel of RNC and Largest Money Backer of Bush and Obama????? Wake up to your Falsely Decided Deciders of the CFR Nazi Criminal RICO Org. Rachel you to work for Zbigotnew, perhaps follow Keith and regain your soul.

[honeykandii]

In*

[honeykandii]

"But we must so with an abiding confidence I'm the rule of law.. Our government was defending positions that were undermining the rule of law and make sure it is in line with the rule of law"

YOU ARE FUCKIN RETARDED.

Is this part of your change regime? Because this is nothing similar to the words you spoke for your election.

[burnstagger]

Hey Maddow you Libtards elected him and now you're complaining?

[BoredomCorner]

@burnstagger Um, you do know that conservatives have been wanting to do the same thing since before the WTC wreckage was cold, right?

[Aimers44]

Search: Rachel Maddow destorys obama ... original upload Aug. 2, 2009

[Aimers44]

Aug. 2, 2009 when this video was originally uploaded, though I'm happy to see people finallly waking up.

[MrBluegrassfiddler]

Construct a '' Legal Regime ??? "" SCREW THAT DUMB-ASS MORON, OBAMA.

[MrBluegrassfiddler]

Obama: AD HOC FUCKING MORON

[blogbat]

"...One of the most radical proposals for defying the Constitution that we have ever heard made to the American people." - Rachel Madcow. Talk about the canary in the mine shaft.

[SkaPablito]

so how screw we are? Police technology: check iprotect police technology

[pkmusicproject]

He's not writing this stuff, he's just passing the ideas of those afraid of losing their temporary hold on our wealth and our freedoms. Hate to have to say it, he's not real. We will have real leaders again very soon, elections can be a beautiful thing, and they will be again soon. Mark these words. tell everyone you know what you know now, before it is too late to make your mark, spread true Love.

[Godard049]

Thanks for spreading your cheeks and taking a big fat shit on our 4th amendment rights...Obama thinks he is this great person who is helping Americans but really he is just a fuckin asshole...What a piece of shit that guy is...what was going through his head? Who is HE WORKING FOR??!?!? It used to be citizens of the US but clearly he has a different agenda...

[SattvaNisha]

Reality check, IF he stops being a puppet, how long would he hold office?

I'm guessing not long...

[billsawakened]

i agree with her 100 % , how can someone who is supposed to be a fucking lawyer even propose this BULLSHIT and keep a straight face, stop covering for these traitorous, lecherous, back stabbing, brown nosing, NWO supporting , criminals, Mr president now your being protected so stop thinking of your pathetic life and expose the truth, you have the power that was taken from JFK. you can make it right , you can still be the man you said you were at your election, please dont continue to be a puppet