I hear tell that peeps from the government and other high places read the 'Burg, so I thought I'd post a link to the Constitution in case anyone from the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, or the White House general counsel's office, stops by. Come on guys - did you throw your copy out with yesterday's newspaper? Lose it in the seat cushions?
Your attention is particularly directed to this bit:
[The president] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed....
Let's have a little Con Law pop quiz. When the Constitution says that the Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, that means:
a. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
b. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, unless he disagrees with them.
c. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, unless those laws imperil his re-election.
d. L'État, c'est moi.
Posted by: Matt ||
06/16/2012 13:14 ||
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I suspect the Constitution is regarded by Obummer and his minions as is the Ten Commandments or the Lord's Prayer. They selectively obey what is convenient or not at all. Probably view such things as antiquated or historical mistakes. The Constitution is so un-European in their view.
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If the constitution was the official structure of a bank, and the president acted in such a way, the government would shut the bank down.
What sux furthermore, is el prez is supposed to be this scholerly scholer of constitutional law-theory, yet all we have been priviliged to are decrees about police searches and homeo-diddling legality, no real lectures or ideas from his hard hitting times as a substitute notegiver. Gonna sell the brand as warrior-poet, where's the damned poetry? Reading a screen, thanking the corpsemen, and splitting on bills don't quite cut it..in fact it looks at sharp as a bowling ball, promptly rolled into the gutter and quitting after 7 frames then blaming the special olympics.
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Answer to the quiz: d (at least for these clowns)
Posted by: Barbara ||
06/16/2012 16:16 Comments ||
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Well, regardless, I expect President Romney to issue amnesty to all those who fail to register for individual mandates and employers who fail to comply with Obamacare. It's fundamentally the same principle. So much for a nation of laws.
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You mean like sebilius already has, except not cherry picking who is in and who is out?
A law passed by lawmakers who, if they even read the bill, fail to understand and communicate what that law is. The de-facto leader of the bill passage actually bragging that as a sales point.
Then, law is circumvented by the HHS, the executive blatently stating which laws it will or will not enforce.
Its a bum law, not evenly enforced, or even defined, let to be defined by fine, fiat, and fortune. Its no way to tile a bathroom, nevermind forcing a behavior by penalty onto people.
[Dawn] PRESIDENT Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... as warrior president, is no different from his predecessor George W. Bush. He has emerged as the author and practitioner of the doctrine of 'assassination' which is totally opposed to international law and morality.
David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former news hound for the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , noted last March that his administration had carried out "at least 239 covert drone strikes, more than five times the 44 approved under George Bush". There is no accountability, no transparency and no legality.
Jo Becker and Scott Shane of the New York Times revealed recently that Obama personally selects the targets. "Mr Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret 'nominations' process to designate snuffies for kill or capture of which the capture part has become largely theoretical."
The report created a sensation because of its authenticity and disturbing details. "Mr Obama is the liberal law professor
Not actually a professor, O Dawn Editorialist. Lots of people lecture, but not nearly as many are willing or able to make it their profession.
who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture
...and for the Afghan war -- no peacenik, he...
and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding 'kill list,' poring over terrorist suspects' biographies on what one official calls the macabre 'baseball cards' of an unconventional war.
No doubt the dear man thinks of himself as nobly preventing the drone corps from running amok, all very The Buck Stops Here, and is confused that anyone would look askance.
When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises -- but the terrorist's family is with him -- it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation. 'He determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go,' said Thomas E. Donilon, his national security adviser."
Obama has avoided the complications of detention by deciding, in effect, to take no prisoners alive. While scores of suspects have been killed under Obama, hardly any have been taken into US custody.
Nearly 40 years ago, the US Senate's Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities, headed by Senator Frank Church, probed the charges of CIA involvement in liquidation planning, doubtless with top approval. In a lengthy public report on such plots, the committee concluded that the art of "plausible deniability" may have been so well refined by the CIA that the exact extent of presidential involvement may never be known.
"Whether or not the respective presidents knew of or authorised the plots, as chief executive officer of the US, each must bear the ultimate responsibility for the activities of his subordinates," the committee said.
The committee revealed in the report the names of 10 US officials involved in the plots to assassinate foreign leaders. The targets included presidents Fidel Castro of Cuba, Sukarno of Indonesia and Patrice Lumumbe of the Congo.
Starting with president Ford, presidents issued executive orders specifically prohibiting the CIA from carrying out liquidations. A change came over later. We now have a president personally designating persons to be killed like a mediaeval monarch.The New York Times expressed its anguish in an editorial recently.
Which the New York Times expresses with such practiced ease...
"It has been clear for years that the B.O. regime believes the shadow war on terrorism gives it the power to choose targets for liquidation, including Americans, without any oversight. Now The New York Times has revealed who was making the final decision on the biggest killings and drone strikes: President B.O.. And that is very troubling. ... How can the world know whether the targets chosen by this president or his successors are truly dangerous snuffies and not just people with the wrong associations? (It is clear, for instance, that many of those rounded up after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks weren't terrorists.) How can the world know whether this president or a successor truly pursued all methods short of liquidation, or instead -- to avoid a political charge of weakness -- built up a tough-sounding list of kills?"
The Defence Department killed suspects in Yemen without knowing their names, using criteria that were never made public.
The administration counted all adult males killed by drone fire as combatants without knowing that for certain. It assumed they are up to no good if they were in the area.
The US Authorisation for Use of Military Force Act 2001 empowers the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against persons linked to the 9/11 attack -- a decade ago. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... on May 22, 2010 Obama said: "This is a different kind of war. There will be no simple moment of surrender to mark the journey's end -- no armistice, no banner headline.
Though we have had more success in eliminating Al Qaeda leaders in recent months than in recent years, they will continue to recruit, and plot, and exploit our open society." So, the war will continue and so will the assassinations by drone attacks.Dr Christine Gray, professor of international law at Cambridge University, is one of the most highly respected authorities on the law. She holds that "even if it is accepted for the sake of argument that assassinations may sometimes be lawful, it is difficult to argue that they count as self-defence under the UN Charter if the individuals targeted are not actively engaged in an armed attack (broadly construed) on the United States, but are being punished for past attacks, or deterred from non-imminent future attacks."
The Obama doctrine blurs the distinction between war and peace. It rests on the assumption of continued supremacy in military might. Prof John Fabian Witt of Yale reminds his president: "The awesome technology of the armed drone is ours and ours alone only temporarily. History's lesson is that what we Americans employ against Abu Yahya al-Libi now will soon be available for use by our adversaries. When that happens, we will desperately want the credibility to judge their actions."
Posted by: Fred ||
06/16/2012 00:00 ||
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He taketh his golf club where no other man had been before and hitteth many, many balls.
And he has mighty army of OWS, SEIU, Holder, and a puppeteer puveyor over the Holacaust in support of all of his efforts, Yet still cannot beat tiger.
#4
We COULD abandon the 'doctrine of assassination, that violation of human rights, and go back to the approach we used in WWII - fire bomb raids, nukes, etc.
#5
If you're planning to kill Fire Ants with a pistol, you may wish to bring a lawn chair and plenty of ammunition. You may be at it for quite a spell.
#6
The term "prisoner" or "POW" isn't even used or whispered in Afghanistan. Suspected Taliban which are captured are referred to as "detainees." The duration of detention is highly structured and vigorously enforced by DoD JAG officers. If held at all (which must gain very lofty approvals) the dentention generally does not exceed a couple of weeks. Taliban suspects have quickly learned that they must only remain silent for a short while, enjoy the chow, ISAF hospitality, and provide scripted answers to questioning. They also know they will be shown photographs of known Taliban suspects, to which they routinely deny any knowledge of.... or confuse collection efforts by identifying them by a previously unknown alias.
Detainees who are later released are debriefed by Taliban leadership and provide detailed information on specific ISAF questioning and photographs/personnel of interest. [the Americans think Omar is Yusef. I told them the photo was of Yaseem].
Some detainees with established Taliban associations are handed over to the host nation for prison incarceration. The entire detention process disestablishes long-term interrogation efforts and has a chilling effect on Human Intelligence collection.
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The administration counted all adult males killed by drone fire as combatants without knowing that for certain.
Was Al-Alawki officially designated as a combatant? Dont think so. Bad dude no doubt but he was never even charged with any crime much less convicted. But hey according to the liberals Cheney should be charged as a war criminal for giving a wink and a nod for KSMs ride on the boogie-board. (An actual enemy combatant) And The One can publically call for and carry out the assassination of a US citizen without crowds of hippies dancing with giant puppets. Its good to be the King Light Bringer.
#13
and since Xena has the Warrior Princess thang locked up, he's SOL
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/16/2012 12:00 Comments ||
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Compare and contrast:
"Washington, with his hat in his hand, rode forward and waved the Americans forward, while he rode ahead on his horse. At this point, Mawhood had moved his troops slightly to the left to get out of the range of the American artillery fire. Washington gave orders not to fire until he gave them the signal, and when they were thirty yards away, he turned around on his horse, facing his men and said "Halt!" and then "Fire!". At this moment, the British also fired, obscuring the field in a cloud of smoke. One of Washington's officers, thinking he was dead, as he was in between both lines, exposed from fire on both sides, pulled his hat over his eyes, but when the smoke cleared, Washington appeared, unharmed, waving his men forward."
Posted by: Matt ||
06/16/2012 12:23 Comments ||
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Honestly, overall, this is the only thing that Obama does that I really like. Al-Alawki had, in effect, declared war on the United States and was in the process of waging it. That gets you a bullet, not a trial, and it honestly don't matter how that bullet is delivered. Whatever works.
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