Miranda Rights For Terrorists, Ex Post Facto Law For BP

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[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]:

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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

[pnh102]

Wouldn’t this also be a Bill of Attainder?

[screaminsunshine]

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

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

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.

[Dilbert San Diego]

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?

[Diogenesis]

Beloved American Heroes who Protect all Americans (this was in Times Sq. this week):

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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:

[trumandogz]

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

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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

[trumandogz]

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

[Tennessee Nana]

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...

[screaminsunshine]

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

[VOA]

bump

[VOA]

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.

[ridesthemiles]

NObama would pass any law he could retroactively.

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

[ridesthemiles]

How is fault assigned?””

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

[ridesthemiles]

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?

[TLI]

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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[Hoodat]

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

[Tzimisce]

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9