Obama seeks to institutionalize indefinite detention

A further step toward a police state

by Tom Eley.
Global Research, August 5, 2009
World Socialist Web Site http://wsws.org/

Press reports have revealed that the Obama administration is considering the creation of a prison and court complex on US soil to process and hold current and future terrorist suspects. It would include a facility to indefinitely detain people held without trial or any other constitutionally mandated due process rights.

The reports underscore the profoundly antidemocratic agenda of the Obama administration, which is not only carrying on the Bush administration’s sweeping and quasi-dictatorial assertions of executive authority, but is seeking to institutionalize them.

Administration officials have referred to the proposal as “a courtroom within a detention facilityâ€