Forum Post: What does President Obama really think of Liberty and Justice?
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 8, 2011, 11:21 p.m. EST by Marquee
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Brady Swenson
After Obama's speech at Osawatomie on Tuesday I read Teddy Roosevelt's speech made there in 1910 and referenced by Obama. The speech is incredible and so very relevant to our national predicament today (Read it in full here: http://bit.ly/vOescB and read about it's historical context here: http://bit.ly/s5rat5). The passage in the comments gets at the heart of Roosevelt's message:
"The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows.
… At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress. In our day it appears as the struggle of freemen to gain and hold the right of self-government as against the special interests, who twist the methods of free government into machinery for defeating the popular will. At every stage, and under all circumstances, the essence of the struggle is to equalize opportunity, destroy privilege, and give to the life and citizenship of every individual the highest possible value both to himself and to the commonwealth."
bleh bleh bleh.... that doesn't change the fact that the only reason he promises to veto SB1867 is that it isn't craftily enough written to exempt such military actions against any detained by it, from the Rules of the Geneva Convention and therefore, it will not allow immunity to our military/police to torture those detained, indefinitely and without charge.
Read it yourself on the Whitehouse's website, or all over the net at this time.
One would like to believe he was going to veto it "because it violated Constitutional Rights". Nope.
You are exactly right. Unfortunately.