Obama to re-brand “enemy combatants”
Well, it was only a matter of time. The Obama administration has decided to abandon the term “enemy combatants” to describe the jihadi suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Makes sense. After all, Attorney General Eric Holder’s former law firm has been calling the Gitmo detainees by a different name for a while now: Clients.
Let the re-branding begin. Bucktown Dusty suggests the DOJ will start calling them “Undocumented Protagonists” ; suicide bombers will be “Next Life Enablers.” Send me your suggestions.
Via WaPo:
The Obama Administration today dropped the term “enemy combatant” to describe those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and increased the legal threshold needed to detain them.
The Justice Department disclosed the move in a court filing in response to a federal judge’s order seeking a definition of the term “enemy combatant.”
Judges have said the definition will play a key role in determining whether the government has justified the confinement of scores of detainees who are challenging their status in U.S. District Court.
In a break with the Bush Administration’s policies, the Justice Department said it would only seek to detain those who “substantially supported” the Taliban, Al Qaeda or associated forces or participated in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Bush Administration had argued it could detain those who provided support to those groups and others “engaged in hostilities” against the United States and its allies.
The Justice Department did not define “substantially supported” in the court papers but said the term would not include those who “provide unwitting or insignificant support” to terror groups. “The particular facts and circumstances justifying detention will vary from case to case,” they wrote.
Though dropping the term “enemy combatant” will have little practical effect, it is a symbolic move by the Obama Administration to break with the past.
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Why don’t we just call them what they are:
d-bags
a-holes
human waste
Why all this semantic two-stepping?
But please, Mr. Obama, do not call them “moderates”.
I realize this post is all but dormant at this point, but here is a closing thought:
How many people who call themselves Christians would be able to recite the same prayers as the enemy combatants at Gitmo?
You know, those prayers that start with multiple repetitions of “Allahu Akbar”?
Barry Soetoro-Obama can.
With a first-rate accent.
The Adhan is the Islamic call to prayer, and begins with four recitals of the words “Allahu Akbar“ ([translated] “Allah is The Greatest”), followed by two recitals each of
[translated] “I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah” and
[translated] “I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”.
Obama’s “family friend” referred to our country as “Amerikkka“, and his “pastor” of 20+ years (who preaches Marxist “Black Liberation Theology” and is good friends with Louis F@rr@kh@n) referred to our country as “U.S. of KKK A“.
Why don’t the BDS-inflicted people “connect the dots” on this stuff?
There’s an enemy combatant usurping the oval office.
Beat me to it…
I was going with “Undocumented Allies”
Matter Redistribution Facilitator?
Holy #@$%@#$%@#% I’ve been posting to a month old thread LOL LOL
I wondered why no one had been on since 12:14 on a funny topic…