James_Madison_Lives
04-14-2010, 01:53 PM
Soldier Who Pushes Predator Button on al-Awlaki Will be Following Illegal Order, Subject to Prosecution
9/11 provided the shock to the American central nervous system to cause ordinarily freedom-loving Americans to rush to give up their rights. The question is how long will the shock last. Had any politician suggested in 2000 that it might be more expeditious in the cases of suspected terrorism to simply blast suspects with Predator drone strikes (http://dailypaul.com/node/131678) or Special Ops attacks before being granted a trial, he'd likely have been dragged off to the nuthouse. ("Impeach Obama Over Star Chamber Nation: No Execution Without Trial") (http://dailypaul.com/node/131678)
The late, great Hunter Thompson wrote: "This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they're threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy."
In June of 2009 a trial court called into question the previous president's expansive interpretation of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, by determining that Jose Padilla has the right to sue John Yoo, (http://jonathanturley.org/2009/06/15/judge-rules-that-jose-padilla-can-sue-john-yoo/) author of the "torture memos." Yoo based his argument largely on the "Commander-in-Chief" theory, which can be likened to Hitler's "Fuhrer Principle." No trial necessary. The strong central leader knows. George Bush mounted a coup against the Constitution which continues to this day.
The radical overthrow relied on a deceptively simple device. This is war, and the Commander-in-Chief can override the Bill of Rights. How long does this war last? Forever.
No enemy tank formations, no landing strips, no chain of command from whom to accept surrender, no way to ever determine that the war is over. Al Qaeda is a network, not a hierarchy. The battlefield is everywhere.
But Americans battle yet over the legitimacy of this treasonous logic, which the Founders anticipated when they stipulated that the enemies of the Constitution which all officers are sworn to uphold might be "foreign or domestic." Since the Oath says nothing of protecting the territorial integrity of the contiguous states, only the Constitution, it is clear that what the Founders had in mind when they said "domestic enemies" was not enemies of the union. The Constitution is an idea, a mandate for the organization of a form of government in which citizens have inalienable rights. Its domestic enemies would be the very kind of traitors who employ the specious logic of the war on terror against the Bill of Rights.
The soldier who follows King Obama's order to summarily execute Anwar al-Awlaki, pushing the drone missile button from somewhere in the desert in Nevada, will be following an illegal order, and will be subject to prosecution as well. If Jose Padilla was deprived of his rights under George Bush's interpretation of the AUMF, then Obama's is Bush's interpretation put on steroids. If Anwar al-Awlaki is killed and turns out to be innocent, nothing can make it right. No settlement, no release, no apology. The man with the friendly face in the White House has turned out to be a monster even George Bush never was, and that took some doing. Bush killed American citizen Kamal Derwish as he traveled in a car with suspected Al Qaeda in Yemen, in a Predator drone strike, but claimed he did not know the American was in the car and it was an accident. King Obama, with his nose in the air and his halo untarnished, feels obliged to make no such apologies. It has been decreed. American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki must die.
He dresses funny and espouses a strange creed, but make no mistake: he was born in New Mexico and is as American as you or me or Scott Brown's blond daughters. His parents are desperately trying to tell someone in the government that their son is innocent. I care not whether he is guilty or innocent, and if he is found guilty let him be hanged. What is at stake is how guilt is determined in the United States. The battle is not over as long as love of liberty lives in the hearts of Americans
Soldier, disobey your illegal order to kill Anwar al-Awlaki. You will be committing a crime.
First they came for the unionists, then they came for the communists. Who will stand up in Congress and denounce this claim to kingly power, and call for Obama's impeachment, since by claiming this power he has almost certainly gone mad? You too, congressman, someday it could be you. We will all hang together now, or we will hang separately.
9/11 provided the shock to the American central nervous system to cause ordinarily freedom-loving Americans to rush to give up their rights. The question is how long will the shock last. Had any politician suggested in 2000 that it might be more expeditious in the cases of suspected terrorism to simply blast suspects with Predator drone strikes (http://dailypaul.com/node/131678) or Special Ops attacks before being granted a trial, he'd likely have been dragged off to the nuthouse. ("Impeach Obama Over Star Chamber Nation: No Execution Without Trial") (http://dailypaul.com/node/131678)
The late, great Hunter Thompson wrote: "This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they're threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy."
In June of 2009 a trial court called into question the previous president's expansive interpretation of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, by determining that Jose Padilla has the right to sue John Yoo, (http://jonathanturley.org/2009/06/15/judge-rules-that-jose-padilla-can-sue-john-yoo/) author of the "torture memos." Yoo based his argument largely on the "Commander-in-Chief" theory, which can be likened to Hitler's "Fuhrer Principle." No trial necessary. The strong central leader knows. George Bush mounted a coup against the Constitution which continues to this day.
The radical overthrow relied on a deceptively simple device. This is war, and the Commander-in-Chief can override the Bill of Rights. How long does this war last? Forever.
No enemy tank formations, no landing strips, no chain of command from whom to accept surrender, no way to ever determine that the war is over. Al Qaeda is a network, not a hierarchy. The battlefield is everywhere.
But Americans battle yet over the legitimacy of this treasonous logic, which the Founders anticipated when they stipulated that the enemies of the Constitution which all officers are sworn to uphold might be "foreign or domestic." Since the Oath says nothing of protecting the territorial integrity of the contiguous states, only the Constitution, it is clear that what the Founders had in mind when they said "domestic enemies" was not enemies of the union. The Constitution is an idea, a mandate for the organization of a form of government in which citizens have inalienable rights. Its domestic enemies would be the very kind of traitors who employ the specious logic of the war on terror against the Bill of Rights.
The soldier who follows King Obama's order to summarily execute Anwar al-Awlaki, pushing the drone missile button from somewhere in the desert in Nevada, will be following an illegal order, and will be subject to prosecution as well. If Jose Padilla was deprived of his rights under George Bush's interpretation of the AUMF, then Obama's is Bush's interpretation put on steroids. If Anwar al-Awlaki is killed and turns out to be innocent, nothing can make it right. No settlement, no release, no apology. The man with the friendly face in the White House has turned out to be a monster even George Bush never was, and that took some doing. Bush killed American citizen Kamal Derwish as he traveled in a car with suspected Al Qaeda in Yemen, in a Predator drone strike, but claimed he did not know the American was in the car and it was an accident. King Obama, with his nose in the air and his halo untarnished, feels obliged to make no such apologies. It has been decreed. American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki must die.
He dresses funny and espouses a strange creed, but make no mistake: he was born in New Mexico and is as American as you or me or Scott Brown's blond daughters. His parents are desperately trying to tell someone in the government that their son is innocent. I care not whether he is guilty or innocent, and if he is found guilty let him be hanged. What is at stake is how guilt is determined in the United States. The battle is not over as long as love of liberty lives in the hearts of Americans
Soldier, disobey your illegal order to kill Anwar al-Awlaki. You will be committing a crime.
First they came for the unionists, then they came for the communists. Who will stand up in Congress and denounce this claim to kingly power, and call for Obama's impeachment, since by claiming this power he has almost certainly gone mad? You too, congressman, someday it could be you. We will all hang together now, or we will hang separately.