Commander-in-Chief State

[Connut]

The wish of Bush to become a dictator (because it's so much easier than being President) has apparently been granted, and by none other than John Roberts, the newly nominated to the Supreme Court guy. This taken in part from <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/">www.fromthewilderness.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> and <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://deepblade.net/journal/2005/07/domination-by-detention.html">deepblade.net/journal/200...ntion.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"[Through a series of executive orders and presidential directives, beginning in October 2001] George W. Bush has granted himself the power to declare anyone on earth - including any American citizen - an 'enemy combatant,' for any reason he sees fit. He can render them up to torture, he can imprison them for life, he can even have them killed, all without charges, with no burden of proof, no standards of evidence, no legislative oversight, no appeal, no judicial process whatsoever except those that he himself deigns to construct, with whatever limitations he cares to impose. Nor can he ever be prosecuted for any order he issues, however criminal; in the new American system laid out by Bush's legal minions, the Commander is sacrosanct, beyond the reach of any law or constitution.<br><br>"[In last week's decision, Roberts and his fellow judges] ruled that the Commander's abitrarily designated "enemies" are non-persons: neither the Geneva Conventions nor American military and domestic law apply to such human garbage. Bush is now free to subject anyone he likes to the "military tribunal" system he has concocted - a brutal sham that some top retired military officials have denounced as a "kangaroo court" that will be used by tyrants around the world to "hide their oppression under U.S. precedent."<br><br>The column will explore the implications of this decision in more detail. But the fact is that Roberts -- this affable "insider," this "regular guy" from Indiana -- will now be implementing the anti-American principle of unlimited presidential authority on the highest court in the land. Too bad the NY Times doesn't think this is controversial.<br><br>and Jesus wept ...<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[DrDebugDU]

It's doesn't really matter though because...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>"Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and... control the lives of all American citizens"<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/waract.htm">www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/waract.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Guess what they never declared end of emergency...<br><br>So the president can do whatever he wants, because the Constitution ended in 1933 anyhow... <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=drdebugdu>DrDebugDU</A> at: 7/29/05 2:56 pm<br></i>