[Peace-discuss] High crime

[David Johnson]

The 13 senators who voted against the bill were Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),Ben Cardin (D-Md.),Al Franken (D-Minn.),Tom Harkin (D-Iowa),Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.),Ron Wyden (D-Ore.),Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho),Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah),Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: C. G. ESTABROOK 
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  Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] High crime


  "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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