[Vision2020] Worse than Bush authorizing torture

[Paul Rumelhart]

I'd like to second this.  The fight, as I see it, is not between 
Democrats and Republicans, it's between power-grabbers and 
Constitution-defenders.  And everyone in this Presidential race (with 
the possible exceptions of Ron Paul and maybe one or two of the 
third-party candidates) is on the side of power-grabbing.  They dangle 
emotional issues in front of us to distract us from this one-sided 
contest and we fall for it as a country every single time.

Paul

On 03/18/2012 06:42 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
> I'm glad Leonard Pitts addressed this in his column in today's Trib.
>
> http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/13/2691941/where-is-the-outrage-against-obamas.html
>
> The voices that spoke up against Bush when he authorized torture are 
> largely silent, with a few exceptions. Glenn Greenwald has been 
> consistent.
>
> This is our government murdering US citizens overseas; since it's not 
> supported by any  legal rationale, there's no reason they can't claim 
> they can do it here also:
>
> "FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said he would have to go 
> back and check with the Department of Justice whether Attorney General 
> Eric Holder’s “[criteria] for the targeted killing of Americans also 
> applied to Americans inside the U.S. ***
> “I have to go back. Uh, I’m not certain whether that was addressed or 
> not,” Mueller said when asked by Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga..."
>
>
> I used to say that W was acting like a king with no restraint on his 
> power. He's got company now, and Obama's doing even worse.
>
>
>
> There's some change for us!
>
>
> Sunil
>
>
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