"Now we're there and we've only just begun. This will be our year, took a long time to come."

[timepiececlock]

[From the ACLU mailing list]

With four executive orders today, our new President:

* Ordered Guantánamo Bay shut down

* Banned torture

* Ordered a full review of U.S. detention policies and procedures, and

* Delayed the trial of Ali al-Marri, an ACLU client whose case is at the center of the Supreme Court’s review of indefinite detention policies.

YES!

It's day two and I'm still not bored with hearing this stuff.

Comments

[boosette.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Mr. President, for letting me use this icon non-ironically now.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

UNF.

That is all I have to say.

[irrel.livejournal.com]

That's all kinda of awesome.

I just found out that my grandma (in Bolivia) saw the inauguration from the first second until the last, this makes me feel strangely happy :)

[evilredmenace.livejournal.com]

don't forget the ethics policy that prevents government representatives from flowing in and out of the public sector, and inevitably kicking lobbyist interests in the testicles.

Thank Christ

[strange_quark]

You know, just when I thought I couldn't love the man more...

The Guantánamo Bay thing is the best and the most surprising. I dunno, I didn't think he'd do it that fast. But still, awesome.

oops.

[mswyrr]

Ordered Guantánamo Bay shut down

* Banned torture

That place's existence weighed on us* all, as did the ongoing torture. I am so relieved to have a president who has a lucid ethical philosophy that agrees with the Constitution and international law and that he's carrying it out.

*I know there are American citizens who support torture and that Guantanamo Bay was created and run by American citizens. I'm conveniently forgetting they exist?