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From: dasg...@aol.com
Date: March 4, 2009 9:29:29 AM PST
To: ramille...@aol.com
Cc: ema...@aol.com, j...@aol.com, jim6...@cwnet.com
Subject: Bush Administration 2000-2008 Fulfilled the Legal Definition
of a DICTATORSHIP
Law Professor: "We May Not Have Realized It at The Time, but in the
Period from Late 2001-January 19, 2009, This Country Was a
Dictatorship."
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/03/law-professor-we-may-not-have-realized.html
Scott Horton - a professor at Columbia Law School and writer for
Harper's - says of the Bush administration memos authorizing torture,
spying, indefinite detention without charge, the use of the military
within the U.S. and the suspension of free speech and press rights:
We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late
2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The
Constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were
suspended, thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice
Department that effectively trashed the Constitution. What we know now
is likely the least of it.
Yale law professor Jack Balkin agrees, writing that the memos promoted
"reasoning which sought, in secret, to justify a theory of
Presidential dictatorship."
Horton is correct that "What we know now is likely the least of it."
Just as with the economic crisis, we cannot change things -- or even
learn the full truth -- unless we have the courage to ask the hard
questions and to take appropriate actions to hold even the high and
mighty to the rule of law.
And as constitutional experts have pointed out, Obama and [the
Democrats in] Congress are complicit in crimes if they cover up and
fail to prosecute.
For example, constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley said:
"There is an obvious level of collusion here. We now know that
Democratic leadership knew about the illegal surveillance program
almost from its inception. Even when they were campaigning about
fighting for civil liberties, they were aware of an unlawful
surveillance program as well as a torture program. And ever since that
came out, the Democrats have been silently trying to kill any effort
to hold anyone accountable because that list could very well include
some of their own members."
See also this.
Not only did a lot of us "realize it at the time", but many in
Congress and the judiciary knew as well.
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