Crackdown On Dissent: Obama To Target Foreign Nationals' Use Of New Technologies In Human Rights Abuses

The Washington Post:

President Obama will issue an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking to Internet monitoring, to help carry out grave human rights abuses.

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[ProFormaArtista]

05:16 PM on 04/23/2012

If you don't have documents to prove that you are a natural born US citizen, then the Obama police clan could very well declare you a so-called "foreign national," making you a terrorist suspect, hence eligible for arrest and torture to the US's heart's delight without court order, thus violating the Writ of Habeas Corpus as well as the Posse Comitatus if the Pentagon arrests you.

[Protocolor]

02:54 PM on 04/23/2012

Does this executive order allow for bringing lawsuits against corporations that illegally facilitate government eavesdropping on their own citizens?

[Protocolor]

02:49 PM on 04/23/2012

Now totalitarian despots will only be able to track and monitor the dissidents who violate copyrights on MAFIAA properties or view child pornography online, right?

Great idea! What could go wrong?

[PunisherWarJournal]

01:29 PM on 04/23/2012

It's the "hope and change" we could believe in!

[Gloriousbastrd]

12:33 PM on 04/23/2012

I'm Democrat, but I don't see how the crack down will really help. Some of these Foreign countries our Gov gives billions of dollars to and these human rights issue's have went on for years. These same countries saying they are defending their self has a excuse to commett gynocide and run these people out of their own country.

[flaconoire]

12:15 PM on 04/23/2012

Coming from this administration that is following in GWB`s footsteps....mmmmmmmmm.

[PunisherWarJournal]

01:27 PM on 04/23/2012

Obama and Bush are the same. Only the Democrats fail to see the difference, along with the Republicans who won't claim him (because he's black, I mean, because he's "socialist").

[flaconoire]

06:57 PM on 04/23/2012

Agree

[mas1956]

12:14 PM on 04/23/2012

I was under the impression over the last few years Obama was trying his best to capture Jimmy Carter's title but now it seems, with this culture of corruption he has established in DC, it looks like he may get Nixon's as well.

[Right Girl]

11:18 AM on 04/23/2012

Anyone else notice how we went months on end without laying eyes on Obama (except for vacation photo ops of him biking or golfing) .... and in the last few weeks, he's Mr. Everywhere ... takin' care of business?

[PunisherWarJournal]

01:27 PM on 04/23/2012

Yes, the banks have him working his butt off to make them more powerful.

[NYsteinberg]

11:10 AM on 04/23/2012

Obama is using the holowcost to oppose atrocities rather than Is ray el who uses it to justify its atrocities.

[NYsteinberg]

11:07 AM on 04/23/2012

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[ImpeachBushCheney]

11:06 AM on 04/23/2012

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[mas1956]

12:15 PM on 04/23/2012

Perhaps the smartest thing I've seen come from a lib in a long time here.

[jimtodd]

10:55 AM on 04/23/2012

Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama.

[Kasado]

10:46 AM on 04/23/2012

We will REMAIN the policeman of the world until our own dissolution.

A decline that will be aided by our own authoritarian actions. Here and abroad.

[Mikeeee]

10:23 AM on 04/23/2012

Of course none of this will apply in America. Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, NSA and more will roll along unhampered.

[zahavi]

11:42 AM on 04/23/2012

You forgot to mention the use of drones to execute American citizens. New technology; new star chamber.

[Gloriousbastrd]

10:03 AM on 04/23/2012

This is how the Palestinians have been treated for yrs by Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZmshhuiHM

a lot of these Palestinians are fellow Christians