Supermax prison blocked Obama books requested by detainee

[babsbunny]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/10/barack-obama-books-blocked-prison

Supermax prison blocked Obama books requested by detainee

Officials at the Florence, Colorado supermax prison deemed the bestsellers 'potentially detrimental to national security'

guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 July 2009 18.07 BST

Ed Pilkington New York

He has been president of the United States for 172 days, yet it appears that Barack Obama is still deemed capable of producing writing that is "potentially detrimental to national security".

That peculiar judgement was made following a request by a high-security prisoner to read Obama's two bestselling books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. The plea was made by Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is being held at a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado which applies the toughest security restrictions to some of the country's most dangerous prisoners.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Who cares?

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is a criminal and since he's in supermax, he basically has no rights and that is the way it should be. It means that he is one of the worst criminals there is. He deserves nothing.

[Luminous Animal]

2. The issue isn't the prisoner.

The issue is why Obama's books have been categorized as 'potentially detrimental to national security'.