The success of presidential policy in the court of the common man is based on popularity, not feasibility or even justification.
Bush and Cheney had good reason, in their view at least, to torture foreign operatives if it yielded safety for American lives. So they waterboarded.
And we crucified him for it.
hollywoodliberal.com
Now comes the President on the heels of his reelection with a real doozy. His legal team says it is now lawful for him to give an order to kill an American citizen without the due process guaranteed under the 5th and 14th Amendments. Say what?
dissenter.com
No constitutional rights at all, no judge, no trial or conviction, just Barack, the executioner.
And not just him, either,
“any informed high level official.”
prismmagazine.com
How is this even possible?
It must meet just three criteria.
- That the target, even an American citizen, is a ranking Al-Qaeda figure.
- That he or she poses "an imminent threat of violent attack" against America.
- That capture is not "feasible."
With no sworn testimony or evidential threshold, or even the protocol for meeting it, you’d best not hang out with possible Al Qaeda ties. Seriously.
thewvsr.com
Public response to this unprecedented expansion of presidential authority is so far surprisingly muted.
But we would have torched the Capitol
and dragged Bush out by his ankles had he even gotten close
to anything like this.
talon.com
Finally(!) all those who blindly voted for Obama because he, well he wasn't a Republican, or had the cool factor, or wanted to be a part of history, REALIZE that y'all were duped all along. And the kicker? Those who are Democrat/Liberal think they're so damn brilliant, and intellectual, and the rest of us are all morons. ('Bout time you realized your Bush hating was just a witch hunt)
ReplyDeleteI have to agree
ReplyDeleteDesperate times call for desperate measures!
ReplyDeleteFYI:
ReplyDelete"I seriously don’t care if you’re a liberal or a conservative or a libertarian or a Zen anarchist. So long as you aren’t Carl Levin or John McCain, the bill’s architects, you can join the Civil Liberties Caucus. Spencer writes: (for the rest please visit--> http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-civil-liberties-americans-face/