[Peace-discuss] High crime
Carl G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Sat Dec 31 21:39:19 CST 2011
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.
"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].
"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].
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.
--CGE
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