Why is the Ruling Class so terrified? Why are corporations engaging in such penny-pinching? (Consider the 'history' of toilet tissue and facial tissues over the last year.) Why the assault on a very minor nuisance in Libya? And so on.
Carrol
andie_nachgeborenen
> More grist for Carrol's mill, and a further reminder to those of us for
think that
> Obama is still the lesser evil that a lesser evil is still a considerable
evil. And this
> particular manifestation, from a sometime Professor of Constitutional Law.
>
> > Obama attorneys ask court to restore indefinite detention power
> > by Stephen C. Webster
> > RawStory.com
> > September 14, 2012
> > Less than 24 hours after a judge blocked a law that gives the government
> > the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial, attorneys
> > for the Obama administration were already filing an appeal.
> >
> > U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York ruled Wednesday that
> > the law is unconstitutional after The Nation Institute senior fellow and
> > Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges brought a lawsuit alleging his
> > free speech rights were being violated by the very possibility of the
> > law being enforced, even though President Barack Obama declared in a
> > signing statement that the administration will never detain Americans
> > without trial.
> >
> > Judge Forrest, an Obama appointee, said that the language of the law was
> > too vague and that Congress must better define "what conduct comes
> > within its scope," or else it could be applied to people like the
> > plaintiff to chill free speech activity and the practice of journalism.
> >
> > Congressional Republicans crafted the bill to make it much more
> > difficult to shut down the Guantanamo Bay military prison, compelling a
> > vote on indefinite detention powers by tying it to the National Defense
> > Authorization Act (NDAA), a military spending bill late last year.
> >
> > Thursday's filing may come as a surprise to many, given the
> > administration's lengthy signing statement that insists authorizing
> > indefinite detention of Americans "would break with our most important
> > traditions and values as a nation."
> >
> > "Judge Forrest's decision firmly rejects governmental overreach,"
> > plaintiff attorney Bruce Afran said in a media advisory. " We now have a
> > judgment that the NDAA, by threatening indefinite military detention as
> > the price of speech, violates the First Amendment and threatens core
> > American values."
> >
> > "The federal court has denied the dangerous notion that American
> > civilians can be taken into military custody and that the President is
> > above the law outside of the reach of the courts," he added. "The
> > decision is an affirmation of the American constitution."
> >
> > By Friday morning, petition site Demand Progress said more than 60,000
> > people signed a form asking Obama not to appeal the ruling. "If we don't
> > do anything, they'll keep fighting to defend this law!" the petition
> > site declared.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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