Greenwald: How extremism is normalized: Obama's Radical Interpretation of The Bill of Rights

[stupidicus]

187. oh, that phony "WOT" stuff

being waged against non-state actors around the world that's being used to degrade/eliminate "those freedoms" they allegedly hate us for.

thanks for clearing that up. Of course I already understood that you meant the Afghan AUMF that led to the war of aggression in Afghanistan. Like the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq under international law, and our own as well, since the Taliban posed no imminent threat the War Powers Act of 1973 addressed, which that AUMF is grounded on, I didn't support it either as a domestic law matter. That's simply how it was turned into a military campaign as opposed to criminal law matter.

"As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the ACLU. "The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the president - any president - with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20113962-503544.html

Like I said, enjoy the contents of this Pandora's box under a Romney presidency.