[Peace-discuss] High crime

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

"Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve"
By davidswanson - Posted on 01 January 2012
http://davidswanson.org/node/3508


On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:

> 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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