The lawsuit against the killing of US citizens has been thrown out. In a chilling ruling this federal judge in this federal district court dismissed the case. And the key language from that opinion is: the government must be trusted. I want to repeat that: the judge said the government must be trusted. And heres the exact quote: Defendants must be trusted and expected to act in accordance with the U.S. Constitution when they intentionally target a U.S. citizen abroad at the direction of the president and with the concurrence of Congress. Its a really outrageous ruling. The president kills whom he pleases, just so Congress is given broad authority for the president to determine who the enemy is. Its an utter abdication by the court. It gives up on the so-called checks and balances we all learned as schoolchildren. It ends, actually, a key principle of the Magna Carta, which is the American and British charter of liberties, which was actually ratified or signed by King John in the year 1215. Were coming up to the 800th anniversary. So what this court ruling does, what the presidents action does do is overturn 800 years of constitutional history. Courts are supposed to be a buffer between what was the absolute power of kings and the people. We no longer have the rule of law; we have the rule of the king. In other words, we have the syndrome of off with his head. It also brings into focus, as I conclude this section, the larger picture of the role of courts post-9/11. One could easily say theyre worthless. They havent stopped any of the, quote, excesses post-9/11. But in fact theyre worse than that. The courts have given us the illusion that all of these extreme post-9/11 measures have been tested in the courts and that these measures have been found to be legal, or at least not illegal, and therefore theyre carried out legally. therealnews/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11722
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 13:22:40 +0000
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