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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAssad has less than 10 days to live. It's only a question of who will
be the instrument of justice.
Mitt has already jumped on board will probably claim to have financed the campaign against Assad.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,762 posts)Response to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)
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coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)has been since, oh, the Ford Administration?
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Executive Order 12333 to be precise. http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21037.pdf is a good discussion of it.
You cannot be tried in a court or sent to jail for violating Executive Orders.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)you for drawing it. I knew it was an EO, but was not aware that no criminal liability thus attached for violating it.
I would note that this is/was a classic case of a drive-by OP. No sign of the person who started the thread.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Kaleva
(36,384 posts)"Most executive orders are issued under specific statutory authority from Congress and have the force and effect of law. Such executive orders usually impose sanctions, determine legal rights, limit agency discretion, and require immediate compliance. Federal courts consider such orders to be the equivalent of federal statutes. In addition, regulations that are enacted to carry out these executive orders have the status of law as long as they reasonably relate to the statutory authority. An administrative action that is carried out under a valid executive order is similar to an agency action that is carried out under a federal statute. In each case, the agency's authority to enact rules and to issue orders comes from Congress.
Absent specific statutory authority, an executive order may have the force and effect of law if Congress has acquiesced in a long-standing executive practice that is well-known to it...."
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Executive+Order
MADem
(135,425 posts)I was aware of Ford's document, but Reagan's passed me by completely (I was a Very Busy Person in those years!).
sibelian
(7,804 posts)I'd advise against such a course of action, personally.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Why is this ?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Just another person in a comfy chair wishing for someone else's death. And then having the balls to call it "justice."
karynnj
(59,508 posts)completely outrageous things - that do not happen. Eventually he will hit something right. This is dangerous because it is stating - obliquely that Assad will be assassinated.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)thanks to the other poster for the appropro term.
David__77
(23,599 posts)But it would be negative for the Syrian people. Hardliners in the Baath Party would take over, and no good could come of it. Al-queda is probably plotting it more than anyone else, as it would serve their "clash of civilizations" ideology.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)and probably drive Syria and the region into a civil war for a generation.
I'm staggered that DUers don't seem to understand the dynamics at play in Syria. Flip statements like the OP would have dire consequences in turning this low grade civil war into a major regional fire.
David__77
(23,599 posts)Their chosen proxies in Syria are quite inept, by the way. Obama is not so foolish as to openly facilitate the creation of Salafist terrorist base at the heart of the Arab countries.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)David__77
(23,599 posts)Or you think that US/NATO will intervene directly?
I could be wrong - we will see!
tabatha
(18,795 posts)the bloodbath is Assad, with the help of Iranians (they fessed up), Russian weapons, Hezbollah troops and some Al Qaeda types from Iraq.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Assad is for sure the greater sinner here but the Shia/Sunni/Christian frictions and low level conflicts cannot be dismissed. Assad is a bloody dictator/strongman but he's part of a reviled minority in the Islamic world, the Shia, and an even smaller sub-faction the Allawites. There are tribal issues here and regional tensions that are inflaming the situation even more so. Ignoring all of that is naive at best imho.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)Not one time.
Iggo
(47,586 posts)...to endorse Bobby Jindal?
FSogol
(45,579 posts)brooklynite
(94,916 posts)...for an OP that provides absolutely no evidence or analysis supporting its major prediction.
DavidDvorkin
(19,504 posts)Possibly more.