10-02-2010, 06:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-02-2010, 06:20 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:There is something Kaftaesque, if not grotesque, about there even being a discussion about if it is legal or not for the US state to murder US citizens. I am not a lawyer but even I know it is a) wrong and b) illegal. End of discussion.
There are those neocons....err, I mean neo-fascists in the U.S. who actually try to make the 'legal' (sic) argument that it is legal if the President or someone the Presidents says can make such decisions so decides - because they think that person or person might be a threat [terrorist or other such pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey tag, tag, your dead moniker]. Name 'em and nail 'em - no messy and lengthy trial and conviction rates are better than any prosecutor's dream. But, yes, not only does it specifically violate many U.S. laws and the Constitution, it also violates international treaties the U.S. has signed and International Law - including those the U.S. imposed on the defeated Nazis - how ironic. What goes around really does come around in odd fashions.....
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass