It's not just "against tradition"

It's against the Constitution.

It's against the law.

It's against every thing this nation ever wanted to stand for.

Barack Obama becomes a criminal if this goes through, just like everyone in Bu$hCo who propagated it.

Yes, propagated it. Because breaking the writs of habeas corpus, illegal search and seizure and imprisonment without trial, even torture have been the practice of many in our government for many years. As Chris Floyd says,

...A war crimes trial of George Bush, Dick Cheney and their chief minions would be a public spectacle of perhaps unprecedented scope. Millions of people all over the world would be riveted to it every day; the American public especially would be hanging on its every word. To mount such a defense, on such a powerful platform, would devastate the myth of American exceptionalism like nothing else imaginable. Horrific atrocity, brutal arrogance, deadly ignorance -- again, by both direct and collateral hand -- would all be brought into the glaring light. The principle of violent domination -- continuous, accepted, celebrated, legitimized, institutionalized -- would stand revealed as a core value, if not the core value, of the American way...

The Assimilated Oborg keep telling me we have to give him a chance. He's had his chance, and cast his lot with Poppy's faction of the Company. Against Cheney, for sure, but solidly Bu$h.

Ian Welsh names him the Thought Crimes president, and reminds us of this:

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

In instituting preventative detention without formal charges or trial, Obama seeks to legitimize criminal behavior.

In doing so, Obama opens the door to his own criminality.