<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Sunil,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>How can the President have these powers over US citizens without Congress declaring war? Abraham Lincoln and FDR were the only individuals that had this kind of power on US soil that I am aware of because of war. Doesn't all authority given to the government, in theory anyway, have to come from the people or Constitution? </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0;
font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 30, 2012 8:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] How things change<br> </font> </div> <br>
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From Glenn Greenwald today:<br><br>"But this is one of the towering, unanswerable <a href="http://opiniojuris.org/2010/02/06/are-obamas-assassinations-of-us-citizens-constitutional/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hypocrisies</a> of Democratic Party politics. The very same faction that pretended for years to be so distraught by Bush’s mere <b>eavesdropping on</b> and <b>detention of</b> accused Terrorists without due process is now perfectly content to have their own President <b>kill</b>
accused Terrorists without due process, even when those targeted are
their fellow citizens: obviously a far more Draconian and permanent
abuse than eavesdropping or detention (identically, the very same
faction that objected to Bush’s radical<i> whole-world-is-a-Battlefield</i> theory
now must embrace exactly that theory to justify how someone riding in a
car, or sitting at home, or sleeping in his bed, in a country where no
war is declared, is “on a battlefield” at the time the CIA ends his
life)."<br><br>Entire column:<br><br>http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/leon_panettas_explicitly_authoritarian_decree/singleton/<br><br>Sunil<br> </div></div>
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