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Miranda Rights For Terrorists, Ex Post Facto Law For BP
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/05/2010 7:20:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Pres. Obama believes in Miranda rights and civilian trials for terrorists who have killed or seek to kill Americans. But when it comes to companies that have supplied untold quantitites of energy resources to the American economy and paid out billions in wages and supply purchases to American workers and firms, well, punitive ex post facto laws are PBO's order of the day.

Under the law of the land, the Oil Pollution Act limits BP's liability for spill-related to damages to $75 million. But Pres. Obama "strongly supports" the adoption of an ex post facto law that would retroactively expand BP's liability greatly. From the official White House blog [emphasis added]:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bloggersandpersonal; bp; expostfacto; mirandarights
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1 posted on 05/05/2010 7:20:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Reward your enemies, punish your friends ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/05/2010 7:21:27 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wouldn’t this also be a Bill of Attainder?


3 posted on 05/05/2010 7:21:30 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obamas media has dropped the terror story like a hot potato and switched back to the oil well.


4 posted on 05/05/2010 7:22:55 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (S)
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To: screaminsunshine
I may get banned from Free Republic for saying this, but the reason that Big Oil is evil [as opposed to, say, Big Wall Street, or Big Hollyweird, or Big Law Firms] is because there aren't any Jews in Big Oil.
 
If there were Jews in Big Oil, then we would have entire Sesame Street episodes [and maybe even entire seasons] devoted to the wonder and beauty and magnificence of petroleum.
5 posted on 05/05/2010 7:26:49 AM PDT by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo (SCORE!!! And in Paris, no less. MOO HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!)
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To: screaminsunshine

I think the rule is: if an ex post facto law is in support of a politically correct cause, then the liberals and the MSM will support same.

With the Times Square terrorist, since the bomb didn’t go off, Janet Napolitano feels happy that “the system worked” to paraphrase her opinion on such subjects. So now the terrorist is a one day story, so we can go back to the oil well leak.

Why was Katrina, the Minnesota bridge collapse, and other events during the Bush administration considered Bush’s fault, but this oil well leak is not Obama’s fault? How is fault assigned?


6 posted on 05/05/2010 7:27:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Beloved American Heroes who Protect all Americans (this was in Times Sq. this week):


Undocumented, unmitigated terrorist-supporter, Zero,
void of accountability, void of birth certificate, void of transparency,
Who continues to pathologically blame Americans at each and every opportunity:


7 posted on 05/05/2010 7:30:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Make BP pay for every penny for the clean-up, the lost lives and the lost income.


8 posted on 05/05/2010 7:35:45 AM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

And to heck with the protection against ex post facto laws?


9 posted on 05/05/2010 7:37:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bp will pay or they will not drill in the US again.


10 posted on 05/05/2010 7:40:37 AM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Diogenesis

Laura Ingraham doesnt think he should have got Miranda rights...

One thing that disappoints me about Laura...

She doesnt seem to want to speak to real immigrants...

or she will putr on only ones with thick accents...

Over the years Ive got through and talked to her a couple of times but never about immigration...

Shes great on other subjects that have nothing to do with illegal aliens or immigration...She has been polite and nice as can be..

The times I have called and said i was an immigrant I got blown off...

It happened again yesterday...I called right after she had talked to John Bolton...Mr Bolton had mentioned the dual citizenship and having to renounce the former citizenship...

I called to say that I had to do that and explain what happened...I thought it was important...

Is Laura really not interested in talking to real immigrants ??? Or just not the ones who speak good English ???

Am I not the token immigrant for her ???

Just WOW...


11 posted on 05/05/2010 7:41:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Communists must have something to blame all their failures on. Any admission of failure would bring down the Ponzi scheme.


12 posted on 05/05/2010 7:45:56 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (S)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

bump


13 posted on 05/05/2010 8:03:03 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
If there were Jews in Big Oil,...

There were/are.
They were colleagues of my father during his 40+ years in the
R&D arm of a "Big Oil" company.
My general impression was they probably some of the more conservative
members of their faith in the USA.
Probably because they worked on research that actually got things
done.
And weren't sitting around offices in academia and the guvmint.
14 posted on 05/05/2010 8:07:12 AM PDT by VOA
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

NObama would pass any law he could retroactively.

He wants to tax us for money we didn’t pay in taxes 40 years ago.


15 posted on 05/05/2010 8:15:20 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Dilbert San Diego

How is fault assigned?””

Fault is assigned by Democrats in power who wear full body teflon clothing.


16 posted on 05/05/2010 8:16:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: trumandogz

Bp will pay or they will not drill in the US again.”

I am pretty sure this rig was 50 miles out & in international waters. Were on the soil of USA ddoes BP drill?


17 posted on 05/05/2010 8:18:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Beyond clean-up and containment, BP must be held responsible for the damages this spill causes. To help make sure of that, the Administration – in the context of a comprehensive energy bill which would help move us to a clean energy future -- strongly supports efforts on Capitol Hill to raise the Oil Pollution Act damages cap significantly above $75 million.

Late to the game AGAIN bammie...

BP (FIVE days ago) "BP Plc will compensate all those affected by an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico," its chief executive said, accepting the disaster could hit plans to open new areas off the U.S. coast to drilling.

"We are taking full responsibility for the spill and we will clean it up and where people can present legitimate claims for damages we will honour them. We are going to be very, very aggressive in all of that," Tony Hayward told Reuters in an interview on Friday.

Of course, that doesn’t fit with the the Pansy-in-Chief’s attempt to put on a chest thumping display for the communist controlled media. Little bammie sees this as an opportunity to screw over a major "bad energy" production company and steal a truckload of money that it can use for his communist agenda. Par for the Pansy's course to make up new "rules" after the fact and then prance around in front of the communist media cameras...



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18 posted on 05/05/2010 8:20:16 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama is an enemy of the Constitution of the United States of America.


19 posted on 05/05/2010 9:24:53 AM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9
20 posted on 05/05/2010 10:40:44 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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