<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>"Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve"</div><div>By davidswanson - Posted on 01 January 2012</div><div><a href="http://davidswanson.org/node/3508">http://davidswanson.org/node/3508</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Obama has signed the clearly unconstitutional Military Detention Bill (NDAA) - quietly, on New Year's Eve, while on vacation in Hawaii. He and the congressional representatives who voted for it have violated their oath to uphold the Constitution. It's not too much to suggest that this bill resembles the Enabling Act of 23 March 1933.<br><br>"Will the bill hurt Obama? Probably not too much, if at all. Liberals are never very energetic in protecting constitutional rights. That’s more the province of libertarians and other wackos like Ron Paul actually prepared to draw lines in the sand in matters of principle" [Alex Cockburn].<br><br>"Think, if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution - certainly would, if such right were a vital one" [Abraham Lincoln].<br><br>All the more so if a minority - 1% - should through its agents deprive the majority of a "clearly written constitutional right": the bill Obama signed today is a direct assault on the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments.<br><br>--CGE<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>