By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. Posted March 25, 2009.
Legal expert Michael Ratner calls the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos, "Fuhrer's law."
In early March, more shocking details emerged about George W. Bush legal counsel John Yoo's memos outlining the destruction of the republic.
The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to wage war against U.S. citizens; take them from their homes to Navy brigs without trial and keep them forever; close down the First Amendment; and invade whatever country he chooses without regard to any treaty or objection by Congress.
It was as if Milton's Satan had a law degree and was establishing within the borders of the United States the architecture of hell.
Read on...
Peacenik knows there is a big financial crisis going on. Peacenik also knows the corporate media cheered for Bush for eight years as he destroyed civil liberties in the U.S. The same media that frets about Michelle Obama's biceps, just aided and abetted the march to dictatorship in the U.S. Will Obama turn any of this around? Will Yoo or Bush or Cheney be prosecuted? Peacnenik watches the complete corruption of Wall Street and the complete corruption of the U.S. constitutional system. Peacenik wonders if such a sick society can be saved...or deserves to be saved.
Legal expert Michael Ratner calls the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos, "Fuhrer's law."
In early March, more shocking details emerged about George W. Bush legal counsel John Yoo's memos outlining the destruction of the republic.
The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to wage war against U.S. citizens; take them from their homes to Navy brigs without trial and keep them forever; close down the First Amendment; and invade whatever country he chooses without regard to any treaty or objection by Congress.
It was as if Milton's Satan had a law degree and was establishing within the borders of the United States the architecture of hell.
Read on...
Peacenik knows there is a big financial crisis going on. Peacenik also knows the corporate media cheered for Bush for eight years as he destroyed civil liberties in the U.S. The same media that frets about Michelle Obama's biceps, just aided and abetted the march to dictatorship in the U.S. Will Obama turn any of this around? Will Yoo or Bush or Cheney be prosecuted? Peacnenik watches the complete corruption of Wall Street and the complete corruption of the U.S. constitutional system. Peacenik wonders if such a sick society can be saved...or deserves to be saved.
