The Obama Administration’s Justice Department today argued that the court system has absolutely no legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of President Obama when he decides to assassinate American citizens, insisting those are “the very core powers of the president as commander in chief.”
The comments were made to US District Judge John Bates during a case brought by Nasser al-Awlaki seeking to prevent the president from assassinating his son, New Mexico cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, despite not having charged him with any actual crimes.
“If the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the president does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state,” insisted Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU legal director who presented the case against the killings.
Former official Dennis Blair announced in April that the administration had approved Awlaki’s assassination, and officials have since defended the planned killing, saying it would be irresponsible not to assassinate the outspoken critic of US policy. Officials have claimed Awlaki is a terrorist, though they have provided no evidence of this, and have also declined to provide information related to how they decide which citizens to assassinate, claiming national security would be compromised by describing the process.
Hey, Obama will be 'the MAN.' Like god, he will hold the life and death of each American citizen in his dusky hands. You step 'outa line and the CIA will waste you, man, quick smart.
This is democracy, Obama-style. This is what America is trying to impose upon the whole world and it is something they've learned from the Israelis who waste the unwanted with a missile.
Obama: Judge, jury and executioner all in one packet. America: the greatest nation in the history of the world? You've got to be kidding, right!
America is a mega-scourge.
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"This is democracy, Obama-style. "
No, this is democracy two-party fraud style. Just as Obama and the Democans have built upon the police state infrastructure of the Bush junta, so will the next Republicrat president build upon that of the Obama junta.
And the American people will rejoice as they shake their chains.
Is this what Angel meant when she told Reid to "Man up?"
NO! This not Israel!
She was no angel. Her name was Angle, as in something crooked.
It is a well known possible side effect of alcoholism to become more militant. That is, when you lessen your senses and brains functioning, you become more primitive. Like a Spanish poet (and heavy drinker) remarked: "When I drink I BECOME A LESSER HUMAN".
Just an example to point to the fact, that Obama does NOT become a greater human by acting in disrespect to law, civilization, societal order, international conventions and agreements. He turns into the lille mafia Cesar. And of course the whole organisation of the justice department does exactly the same. They devalue themselves and uses FEAR to get respect from the population.
Anybody not seeing that as a most dangerous and degrading social development I hold to be of the spanish poet standard. Though that person at least saw the problem!
When I see the direction our [JOKE] democracy is taking, I want to vigorously medicate myself!! How does that fit into the "problem"..??
It is a well known fact the government expands every new power they invent for themselves. That being the case, I can't help but wonder how long it will be until anyone that becomes a pain in the butt to either party becomes an enemy of the state and therefore eligible for assassination. Or how long it will be until it is open season on non-party members of the two-party fraud.
Justice? In Amerika? Not freaking likely. Expedient is the rule of law. Empire, like a spreading cancer, eats the body politic. Insanity thy name is 'global war of terror'.
It's the "N" word STUPID..!! No, not the one so similar to the African country where the French get the "Yellowcake"……. No, I'm talking about the European place where exterminating [certain] people [ their OWN citizens] became legal and was embraced by the leaders as a "solution"
It's one thing when the government wants to murder it's citizens for something they DO…..like murder or as is the case of Jonathan Pollard, giving military secrets to an adversary who could use the purloined knowledge to kill millions of fellow citizens……………. NO, here we are talking about government MURDERING it's citizens for what they SAY and their opinions about RELIGIOUS matters…. We got a little sample of such thinking when the "blind sheikh" was tried for "seditious conspiracy" in the Zyiocon legal hellhole AKA the "Eastern District" of New York. E.G. Mukassey…….. The attorney general that did NOT know if forced suffocation ["water boarding"] is torture [just so long as it is not done to any of his fellow "chosen people" ] and ALSO there is the perplexing case of Aafia Siddiqui another victim…………..sentenced to EIGHTY YEARS for being shot TWICE…………. It makes the RFK hit look civilized………… The prosecution could not produce the bullets Aafia allegedly fired or the places where they allegedly struck] ……. The ONLY bullets admitted at trial were fired INTO HER…!! And there is the detail of her MISSING CHILDREN…..never explored by the court…….But, hey……. She is one of "them"…………so we really don't need to be fair or just…. Right???
Notes in the margin: I now copy all the comments I attempt to post here because they are sometimes deleted the very second they are posted…. The moderators [censors] either are able to see what I write [as I write it] or there are words, and or phrases which are not tolerated or allowed no matter the context. E.G. [FOR-BIDDEN WO-RDS] and or symbols…thereby making it difficult to express certain ideas………. I will be sending only half my usual quarterly donat-ion… The other half will go to http://www.cageprisoners.com/
If the Republicans want to impeach Obama for anything, this would be one of the justifiable reasons. However, those unconscionable whores would never impeach a president for any but trivial, partisan reasons.
Certainly puts blow jobs in perspective doesn't it?
If this does not define living in a corporatist (fascist) militarist EMPIRE , I don't know what does.
The Nazi Gestapo and SS operated under similar 'rules' — ie. no rules.
"The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial oversight. The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, however, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. The SS officer Werner Best, onetime head of legal affairs in the Gestapo,[7] summed up this policy by saying, "As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally."[4] A further law passed later in the year gave the Gestapo responsibility for setting up and administering concentration camps." [source Wikipedia]
Student opposition:
"By February and March, 1942, [German] student protests were calling for an end to the Nazi regime. These included the non-violent resistance of Hans and Sophie Scholl, two leaders of the White Rose student group. However, resistance groups and those who were in moral or political opposition to the Nazis were stalled by the fear of reprisals from the Gestapo. In fact, reprisals did come in response to the protests. Fearful of an internal overthrow, the forces of Himmler and the Gestapo were unleashed on the opposition. The first five months of 1943 witnessed thousands of arrests and executions as the Gestapo exercised their powers over the German public." [Wikipedia]
Once non-Constitutional and extra-judicial violence and execution starts to be carried out IN SECRET against the citizen population of a country there is already a state of EMPIRE existing —- and it will not end well.
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
Kind of puts the American Empire into perspective. At least St. Paul got to appeal "unto Caesar". Now somebody at the CIA decides whether you live or die…and since the apparat missed the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and claimed Saddam had WMD…well, it's not a particularly reassuring record…