‘Judge, jury and executioner’: Legal experts fear implications of White House drone memo
“Anyone should be concerned when the president and his lawyers make up their own interpretation of the law or their own rules,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and an authority on international law and the use of force.
“This is a very, very dangerous thing that the president has done,” she added.
‘Judge, jury and executioner’: Legal experts fear implications of White House drone memo – U.S. News
Obama is creating a massively armed force under his control inside the US, at the same time he is planning to disarm the American people. History tells us that this invariably leads to catastrophe.
Anyone who imagines that Obama is doing this for the good of the American people – is severely deluded.
“Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.”
— George Orwell, “You and the Atom Bomb”, 1945
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You have always mentioned the NDAA, I wondered when you would comment on this.
Our government kidnaps, tortures, and murders people, while those who advocate the rule of law are now labeled “terrorists”
Its mass paranoia right before the big and thorough mental breakdown…