>Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>... This war was officially authorized by Congress with a statutory
>act that everyone agrees was the functional equivalent of a
>declaration of war.
"Everyone agrees?" Scarcely. That the "authorization" was not "the functional equivalent of a declaration of war" is proven by the fact that there was *no* war between its passage and Bush/Cheney's illegal act of aggression. And since the constitution specifically places the power to declare war in Congress, any "authorization" claimed by the Bushits (as, for instance in claiming that, by virtue of wartime presidential powers, courts have no authority to interfere with torture, arbitrary detention, warrantless searches, etc.) is obviously invalid as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. And any judge who accepts those claims is acting with such flagrant disregard of the supreme law of the land as to share in the Bushit crimes and be rightfully subject, for the rest of his lifetime sinecure, to impeachment, conviction, removal from office, and denial of any pension.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos