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  • Do we have any laws in this country?

    How is it possible that the President can do all the things we have learned he can do without any Congressional restraint? Congress passes a law, and the President adds a note at the bottom when he signs it that serves to make the law do the opposite of what Congress intended. Congress authorizes billions of dollars to buy up mortgage securities ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by mthabetz on November 23, 2008

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Warfare by midlevel legal memos

    The cure for justifying torture in this war is to start prosecuting all the perpetrators--all the way from the GIs through the lieutenants, captains, majors, colonels, generals to the secretaries, cabinet members, chiefs of staff, vice and president--as war criminals. They are all guilty, and this should be remembered forever as their shame and ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by titmouse on April 3, 2008

  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007