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kenny blankenship

(15,689 posts)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 08:19 PM Dec 2011

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
Oh well they have the NDAA now so they don't need to prove any of this stuff teddy51 Dec 2011 #1
Better stop posting on DU then. JoePhilly Dec 2011 #2
Says it well, thank you. mbperrin Dec 2011 #3
k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Dec 2011 #4
It was for his own good. Octafish Dec 2011 #5
Yep the US Patriot Act is the gift that just keeps on truedelphi Dec 2011 #6
 

teddy51

(3,491 posts)
1. Oh well they have the NDAA now so they don't need to prove any of this stuff
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 08:22 PM
Dec 2011

anymore, so just be quite ok before they drop a bomb on you.

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