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21 November 2010 By Paul Craig Roberts
The United States Department of Justice (sic)
routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus
and concocted crimes that are not even on the
statutes book. The distinguished defense attorney and
civil libertarian, Harvey A. Silverglate, published a
book last year, "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds
Target the Innocent," which conclusively proves that
today in "freedom and democracy" America we have
punishment without crime. This same Justice (sic)
Department, which routinely frames and railroads the
innocent, argued in Federal Court on November 8 that
the US government, if approved by the president, could
murder anyone it wishes, citizens or noncitizens, at
will. All that is required is that the government
declare, without evidence, charges, trial, jury
conviction or any of the due process required by the
US Constitution, that the government suspects the
murdered person or persons to be a "threat." The US Justice (sic)
Department even told US Federal District Court Judge
John Bates that the US judiciary, formerly a co-equal
branch of government, has absolutely no legal
authority whatsoever to stick its nose into President
"Change" Obama's decision to assassinate Americans.
The unaccountability of the president's decision to
murder people is, the US Justice (sic) Department
declared, one of "the very core powers of the
president as commander in chief." The argument by the
Justice (sic) Department that the executive branch has
unreviewable authority to kill Americans, whom the
executive branch has unilaterally, without presenting
evidence, determined to pose a threat, was challenged
by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center
For Constitutional Rights. The outcome of the case
will determine whether the neoconservative and Israeli
stooge, president George W. Bush, was correct when he
said that the US Constitution was nothing but a "scrap
of paper." It is my opinion that
the American people and the US Constitution haven't
much chance of winning this case. The Republican
Federalist Society has succeeded in appointing many
federal district, appeals and supreme court judges,
who believe that the powers of If Americans have a
greater enemy than neoconservatives, that enemy is the
Federalist Society, a collection of incipient Nazis. Disagree with me as you
will, but now let's look at this development from
another perspective. I am old enough to remember the
Nixon years, and I was a presidential appointee,
confirmed by the US senate, in the Reagan
administration. For those of you too young to know and
those who are to old to remember, President Nixon
resigned to avoid impeachment simply because Nixon
lied about when he learned about the burglary of the
Watergate office of the Democratic party. Nixon lied about when
he learned of the burglary, because he knew that the
Washington Post would make an issue of the burglary,
if he launched an investigation, to defeat his
re-election. The military/security complex and the
black ops groups in the US government were angry at
Nixon for smoothing US-China relations. The Washington
Post, long regarded as a CIA asset, hid behind its
"liberal" image to bring Nixon down. Woodward and
Bernstein wrote thriller-type reports of midnight
meetings with "deep throat" in dangerous parking
garages to get the scoop on the date of Nixon's
knowledge of the meaningless burglary. Let's assume that I
have it all wrong. The fact remains that Nixon was
driven from office because of the Watergate burglary.
No one was harmed. Nixon did not kill anyone or claim
the right to kill, without proof or accountability,
American citizens. If the dastardly President Nixon
had a Justice (sic) Department like the present one,
he simply would have declared Woodward, Bernstein, and
the Washington Post to be a threat and murdered them
by merely exercising the power that the Obama
administration is claiming. Nixon might be too far
in the past for most Americans, so let's look at
Ronald Reagan. Instantly, the media
would have been in an uproar, law schools and
university faculties would have been in an uproar, the
Democrats would have been demanding Reagan's
impeachment, and his impeachment would have occurred
with the speed of light. Today in Amerika,
approximately 25 years later, the ACLU has to go to
federal court in order to attempt to affirm that "if
the Constitution means anything, it surely means that
the president does not have unreviewable authority to
summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an
enemy of the state." In reply, the Justice
(sic) Department told the court that murdering
American citizens is a "political question" that is
not subject to judicial review. The "freedom and
democracy" government then invoked the "state secrets
privilege" and declared that the case against the
government's power to commit murder must be dismissed
in order to avoid "the disclosure of sensitive
information" If the Obama Regime
wins this case, the US will have become a
dictatorship. As far as I can tell,
the "liberal media" and most Americans do not care.
Indeed, conservative Republicans are cheering it on. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good
Intentions. |
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