 blueridge says: Specifically the 4th and 5th amendments, and Posse Comitatus, which forbids the use of military for domestic policing. The dangerous plea of "necessity" and "war powers" was used. In other words, the Constitution was suspended (in factual actions) and America was under secret Martial Law. Love the Monday morning quarterbacking that goes on re the aftermath of 9-11. Do you remember the chaos? I'm no fanboy of GW, but say what you will...WE HAVE HAD ZERO ATTACKS SINCE 9-11 !!! Maybe we should be looking at the "constitutionality" of what our new "leader" is doing regarding the rape and plunder of our economy! Actually we know that surveillance on Americans began before 9/11. It is surely more important than a football analogy when any President (including Obama) decides to circumvent the Constitution, particularly under the pretense of "defending freedom". No Constitutution, no freedom. Nor is it due to draconian laws (PATRIOT ACT) or unjust wars on countries that had nothing to do with 9/11, all of which Bush pushed for, that America has not been attacked again. Anyone who thinks the PATRIOT ACT, airport screening, a war on Iraq and Afghanistan would stop any suicidal terrorist group is truly naive. The only answer is that there is no group of terrorists that have been determined to carry ... Flash update: International Herald Tribune March 3, 2009 Yoo and Delahunty also said in the Oct. 23 memorandum that “First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.” I guess this is why ordinary, and definitely non-terrorist, citizens were arrested or detained by the Secret Service if they protested Bush in local visits (charged with "trespassing", later cleared by Courts), under the pretense of "you are either with us, or against us"--i.e. full Bush dictatorship. It's simply unbelievable what we are finding out now about our previous administration. And unspeakably sad.... Actually, just confirming with inside information what was already self-evident. This article currently high on Digg sums it up well: Bush's Secret Dictatorship voices.washingtonpost.com — : "We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended. That was thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice Department that effectively trashed the Constitution." |
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