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Obama can assasinate even Ameriican citizens...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, September 26 2010, 11:03:29 (UTC)
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...people in the MidEast at one time were the only ones to have to worry about being assassinated by Americans, who are Christians...but it seems that now Obama can have American citizens murderd too...oh if a Muslim nation came out and said this....!

Saturday, Sep 25, 2010 15:26 ET

Glenn Greenwald

Obama argues his assassination program is a "state secret"
By Glenn Greenwald (updated below)

At this point, I didn't believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki's father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due process, the administration late last night, according to The Washington Post, filed a brief asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit without hearing the merits of the claims. That's not surprising: both the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly insisted that their secret conduct is legal but nonetheless urge courts not to even rule on its legality. But what's most notable here is that one of the arguments the Obama DOJ raises to demand dismissal of this lawsuit is "state secrets": in other words, not only does the President have the right to sentence Americans to death with no due process or charges of any kind, but his decisions as to who will be killed and why he wants them dead are "state secrets," and thus no court may adjudicate their legality.

...maybe now so many people won´t want to live in the beautiful USA...they may have thought they would be safe from murder here, or that at least their children would be....but those violent chickens are once again coming home to roost...Like Malcolm X said they would.

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