16-04-2013, 08:57 AM
Speaking of the law....
It has ceased to be relevant.
The de facto suspension of Habeus Corpus by Dubya in 2001, was the thin edge of the wedge.
It has ceased to be relevant.
Peter Lemkin Wrote:The very real threat of presidential assassinations of US citizens and others within the United States starkly raises the specter of police-military dictatorship. Behind the legalistic double-talk of the administration's white paper on drone killings of Americans, made public two weeks ago, the US government is claiming unlimited powers to assassinate anyone, anywhere in the world.
By asserting the power to order the killing of alleged terroristssecretly and without judicial or congressional oversightand acting on this asserted power to kill thousands of people, including at least three American citizensthe Obama administration has effectively abrogated the US Constitution's Bill of Rights and the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that no person shall be "deprived of life … without due process of law."
The lack of significant protest from any section of the political or media establishment underscores the disintegration of American democracy and the absence of any constituency for the defense of democratic rights within the US ruling class. Just how rapidly the American bourgeoisie is breaking with its own previous legal norms is demonstrated by the absence of serious opposition to Brennan's confirmation. Four years ago, Obama had to scuttle plans to name Brennan, then a top CIA official, to head the agency, due to protests over his role in and public defense of the Bush administration's use of torture.
The de facto suspension of Habeus Corpus by Dubya in 2001, was the thin edge of the wedge.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14