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For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why It's Legal to Kill You
Ha! Just kidding! It won't tell you that. That's classified!
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/12/for-christmas-your-government-will-explain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LoweringTheBar+%28Lowering+the+Bar%29
(you'll just have to copy and paste that url to get there, as DU3 breaks on the addition sign and the old DU link tag won't work anymore. Sorry.)
Summary:
- The government dropped a bomb on a U.S. citizen,
- who, though a total dick and probably a criminal, may have been engaged only in propaganda,
- which, though despicable, is generally protected by the First Amendment;
- it did so without a trial or even an indictment (that we know of),
- based at least in part on evidence it says it has but won't show anyone,
- and on a legal argument it has apparently made but won't show anyone,
- and the very existence of which it will not confirm or deny;
- although don't worry, because the C.I.A. would never kill an American without having somebody do a memo first;
- and this is the "most transparent administration ever";
- currently run by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Merry Christmas!
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For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why It's Legal to Kill You (Original Post)
kenny blankenship
Dec 2011
OP
teddy51
(3,491 posts)1. Oh well they have the NDAA now so they don't need to prove any of this stuff
anymore, so just be quite ok before they drop a bomb on you.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)2. Better stop posting on DU then.
I'm sure they will start here.
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)3. Says it well, thank you.
This country began committing suicide with the Patriot Act.
It's just about done.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)4. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t
-Laelth
Octafish
(55,745 posts)5. It was for his own good.
Presidents come and Presidents go, but the USA PATRIOT Act is forever.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)6. Yep the US Patriot Act is the gift that just keeps on
Killing.