Posted on 11/13/2010 10:46:30 AM PST by John Semmens
The Obama Administration filed court papers asserting that “the Government has the authority to use deadly force against its enemies.” The filing came in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) charging that the asserted killing authority violates the US Constitution.
As the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Brief put it, “this Government faces serious threats both at home and abroad. Just this past November 2, over 60 members of the governing coalition were driven from their posts by dangerous right-wing elements who have been identified by the president as enemies of his Administration. Under such a threat, the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has a broad power to take any measures he deems necessary and warranted to protect the nation from this kind of assault.”
The brief further challenged the jurisdiction of the court on this matter: “The voters in America have granted this power to President Barack Obama by electing him to the office he currently holds. For the courts to attempt to place any limits on this grant of power would undermine our democratic form of government. It is our position that the courts have no jurisdiction in this matter. Consequently, the Executive Branch of the Government will not enforce any court finding that interferes with the President’s Constitutional authority as Commander-in-Chief to order the elimination of any person he deems a credible threat.”
CCR Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei characterized the DOJ’s argument as “a brief for lawless abuse of power and a gateway to unconstrained tyranny. The focus in the immediate case may be a suspected al-Qaeda operative, but the scope of the authority claimed would essentially give the President the option of ordering the assassination of anyone he chooses to name as a threat. Today the target is Anwar al-Aulaqi. Tomorrow it might be Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh.”
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/administration-asserts-authority-to-terminate-enemies/
Think about it!
First you have to wonder about the need for this order and then we have to take a serious look at where it could go.
As said in other posts; "Just imagine the furor if this had come from Bush or Reagan." For that matter just imagine if it was even a hypothetical idea tossed out in an editorial by ANY conservative columnist or talker.
A lot of posters don't realize they are being punked.
Just an observation. I don't get the point unless we are so used to the outrageous things that Liberals get away that nothing surprises us anymore.
AW geez- gotta learn to take my time. That shows how wary I am about these times we live in.
In your dreams! LOL
It is NOT posted as “satire.” It should be in the headline.
And I even like satire. But sorry, John, you’re no P.J. O’Rourke or Dave Barry. I figure it out by the third sentence, but then I feel like I want the last 20 seconds of my life back.
Exactly. And some of them probably pass along the semi-satire stories to others as 'fact'.
Al-Aulaqi - the subject of the case underlying Semmens’s brilliant satire - isn’t your typical “American citizen living in a foreign land.” He’s no senior who’s retired to the south of France, or tourist checking out Big Ben.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/anwar-al-awlaki-s-license-kill_516428.html
It WAS posted as satire, as are all of Mr. Semmens’ “articles, which appear here several times a week.
What part of: “A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative” would have led you to think the posting was not satire?
That’s the source. The headline is where you post bracketed notices like [Satire] or [Dowd Alert] or [Spoilers], etc. It only takes a second.
And it only takes a tenth of a second (or less) to read the source before reading the body of the article.
(The Congressional hearings are the ones Congress was forced to conduct not the immediate "there ain't nothing wrong here, move along" so-called hearings. Citizens endured years of ridicule and abuse before Washington finally(!) agreed to look into what really happened.)
Thanks for the ping John. Another good one.
The Tea Party and Birthers are at the top of his list.
That’s how I feel.
Be careful John, you might give them ideas.
:-)
satire
I am.
“I don’t get the point unless we are so used to the outrageous things that Liberals get away that nothing surprises us anymore”
I believe that is part of it. It also helps to be able to laugh easily rather than take offense at a joke.
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