[Peace-discuss] Greenwald on Obama

[C. G. Estabrook]

“There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we 
face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, 
organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators 
or that lays the basis for institutional change —- and the kind of commitment 
that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many 
failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.”
	--Noam Chomsky

John W. wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
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> What are you compelled to, by this?
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> Armed revolution?  Suicide?  Or is this a rhetorical question?
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> "...Obama's ... devotion, first and foremost, to perpetuating rather than 
> challenging how the Washington establishment functions...
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> "...Obama ... stated that he will not close Guantanamo in the first 100 days 
> of his presidency ... [and that we] need some new system -- most likely a 
> so-called new 'national security court' -- that 'relaxes' due process 
> safeguards so that we can continue to imprison people indefinitely even 
> though we're unable to obtain an actual conviction in an actual court of law.
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> "...Obama ... does not want to pursue prosecutions for high-level lawbreakers
>  in the Bush administration...
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> "...Obama ... can't very well place someone in a high-ranking position who 
> explicitly advocates rendition and enhanced interrogation tactics and then 
> simultaneously lead the way in criminally investigating those who authorized 
> those same tactics."
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> --Glenn Greenwald <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/11-11>
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> Brussel wrote:
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> Glen Greenwald notes, compellingly, ...