Obama Administration: Day 1 – Free Gitmo Terrorists & Murder Unborn Babies

Posted January 21, 2009 * Comments(1)

This is what we have to look forward too for the next four years. The liberal agenda in full force. If anyone really thought that he would govern from a center-right perspective, they are sorely mistaken. All I can say is he better know where he’s putting the detainee’s before he closes Gitmo and they better not end up here.

I don’t even know where to begin with the abortion issue. We’re going to fund abortions outside the country? I’ve never heard of anything so asinine in my life. Here, we can’t afford to fund nor should we fund the homeowner mortgage bailout but we’re going to fund abortions! I’m sick to my stomach already. Four years of abdominal pain that’s what we’re in for if we don’t get him out NOW!

Sad reading…

Obama to Lift Ban on Funding for Groups Providing Abortions Overseas

President Obama will continue the back-and-forth of presidents before him by using the Roe v. Wade anniversary to allow non-governmental organizations working abroad to use U.S. funding to give counseling on or provide abortions.

By Major Garrett
FOXNews.com

President Obama will issue an executive order on Thursday reversing the Bush administration policy that bans the use of federal dollars by non-govermental organizations that discuss or provide abortions outside of the United States.

Obama will sign the executive order on the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.

The policy, known in governmental circles as the “Mexico City policy,” requires any non-governmental organization to agree before receiving U.S. funds that they will “neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.”

The language was announced at the United Nations International Conference on Population in 1984, and was approved by President Reagan and originally drafted by his assistant secretary of state, Alan Keyes.

Keyes ran unsuccessfully as the GOP nominee against Obama for the U.S. Senate in 2004.

President George Herbert Walker Bush continued Reagan’s Mexico City policy.

President Bill Clinton issued an executive order lifting the ban on Jan. 22, 1993. President George W. Bush issued an executive order re-instating the ban on federal dollars for NGOs that discuss or provide abortions on Jan. 22, 2001.

Obama’s Draft Order Calls for Closing Gitmo in One Year, Suspending Military Tribunals

President Obama wants to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay within the year and could put an end to the military tribunals after a four-month review, according to a draft executive order.

FOXNews.com

President Obama issued a draft document Wednesday calling for a 120-day suspension of military tribunals while the Defense Department reviews whether the Pentagon should continue to prosecute enemy combatants.

The draft also calls for the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed within the year.

Closing the facility “would further the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice,” reads the draft prepared for the new president’s signature.

It calls for a systematic review of each detainee’s case to determine which cases can be released, and which cannot.

“It is in the interests of the United States to review whether and how such individuals can and should be prosecuted,” the document says.

A judge has already granted Obama’s request to suspend the war crimes trial of a young Canadian for 120 days. Army Col. Stephen Henley issued the ruling Wednesday after a brief hearing at the Guantanamo base.

Other defendants say they oppose the delay because they want to plead guilty to charges that carry a potential death sentence. Execution would enable them to become martyrs.

Under a scenario foreshadowed in the draft document, some detainees being held at Guantanamo would be released, while others would be transferred elsewhere and later put on trial under terms to be determined. Closing Guantanamo could potentially mean moving the remaining detainees to
federal prisons in the U.S., such as the Leavenworth prison in Kansas.

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, vehemently opposes that idea. He introduced legislation almost immediately after the draft regulation was announced
requiring Obama to provide Congress 90 days’ notice as well as a study that answers specific questions relating to security, logistics and alternatives before taking any action to close the Guantanamo prison or move the detainees.

“We cannot afford to make snap decisions about detainee policy, and the American people should be able to judge any policy changes for themselves,” Brownback said. “This legislation would require an open and comprehensive review of the factors related to moving the Guantanamo detainees.”

Wednesday’s draft may be as much an indictment of the Supreme Court’s direction on how to prosecute detainees than on anything else.

The Supreme Court’s decisions over the past few years — most recently its June ruling on Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized U.S. citizen held at the prison who successfully claimed habeus corpus rights — have produced legal contradictions in allowing detainees access to U.S. courts.

The facility at Guantanamo Bay has long been the target of Bush administration critics at home and some governments overseas. The Bush administration established the prison early in battling terrorism, contending that the people held there were not entitled to the customary rights of prisoners in the United States, or to the protections of the Geneva Conventions that cover war prisoners.

The draft order notes that some of the detainees at the site have there for more than six years, and most for at least four years.

At the Pentagon, military leaders were preparing for the order that spokesman Bryan Whitman said would begin a “comprehensive review of policies and procedures related to detainee activities.”

“The president has clearly made his intentions well known,” Whitman said. “And he has taken the first steps with respect to his direction to order a pause to military commission proceedings.”

David Rivkin, a constitutional attorney, said he hoped the 120-day review to be undertaken by the Pentagon would lead to “responsible” results.

“You can, but that does not resolve the situation. You either have to detain them under the military justice/laws of war paradigm, you need to decide how you’re going to prosecute the rest,” he said.

Rivkin said that such a decision isn’t just about moving the 245 detainees remaining at Guantanamo, which initially housed more than 800.

“This is about hundreds and thousands of people the United States is likely to capture in future wars .. ongoing wars frankly against Al Qaeda and Taliban. You cannot fight a war without retaining this vital legal architecture,” Rivkin said.

He said he’s less concerned about whether it’s military commissions or tribunals or giving more due process to the detainees.

“They have to keep this architecture, they can not just keep or resort to a criminal justice model,” he said.

FOX News’ Lee Ross and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  1. Mary Long on January 22nd, 2009

    Sadly on this 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we witness our new President issue an Executive Order that effectively sentences to death more innocent, unborn children–a true slaughter of innocents.
    At the same time, he and the liberal Democrats worry and fret over the treatment of known terrorists at Gitmo! This is the “change” people want, I presume? Where will these terrorists reside after their release from the secure Gitmo? Has he considered somewhere in the USA? I hope not near my house!

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