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Obama Contemplating Preventive Detention

Posted By Sheldon Richman

“President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a ‘preventive detention’ system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.” (New York Times [1], Thursday)

Unlimited government.

FEE Timely Classic
“George Mason and Individual Rights” [2] by Willie E. Nelms


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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html?ref=todayspaper

[2] “George Mason and Individual Rights”: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/george-mason-and-individual-rights/

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