[Peace-discuss] Obama claims right to execute at will

[C. G. Estabrook]

  "You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For 
out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."

γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, πῶς δύνασθε ἀγαθὰ λαλεῖν πονηροὶ ὄντες; ἐκ γὰρ τοῦ 
περισσεύματος τῆς καρδίας τὸ στόμα λαλεῖ.
--ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 12:34

On 9/25/10 7:26 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> As Naomi Wolf (who at one time supported Obama) and many others have noted, 
> the P.T.B. were unwilling to remove W from office for his abuse of power 
> simply because they want to retain and strengthen that (unconstitutional) 
> power in the executive branch.
>
> (...omne regnum divisum contra se desolatur et omnis civitas vel domus divisa 
> contra se non stabit
> et si Satanas Satanan eicit adversus se divisus est quomodo ergo stabit regnum 
> eius?)
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 5:41 AM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama claims right to execute at will
>
>
>> http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/09/25/obama-doesnt-know-why-the-fuck-hes-entitled-to-kill-al-awlaki-he-just-is-damnit/ 
>>
>>
>> Obama's dictatorial claim to be able to order killings at will in fact 
>> exposes the weak reed on which his Mideast war policy rests: the 
>> Authorization for the Use of Military Force of September 2001. Obama has 
>> criminally extended it even farther than Bush did - to justify war throughout 
>> the Mideast - and thereby makes himself even more impeachable.
>>
>> Unwarranted killings would seem to fulfill the Founders' idea of a "high 
>> crimes or misdemeanors."
>>
>>