And who are we to question our exalted ruler’s dictates?

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s targeted drone strikes against American citizens were constitutional in part because the president said so, Department of Justice lawyers argued in a court filing this week.

“The Attorney General’s statement last month that the use of remotely piloted aircraft and the targeting of Anwar Al-Aulaqi were subject to ‘exceptionally rigorous interagency legal review’ and determined to be lawful — along with the President’s statement that those actions were legal — only support the conclusion that those actions were lawful, and certainly were not clearly established to be unconstitutional in 2011,” the government said in a Wednesday court filing signed by Paul E. Werner, a trial lawyer in the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

The government was responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the estates of three American citizens killed in drone strikes. The lawsuit, Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta, alleges that the government’s killing of Al-Aulaqi and his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, and Samir Khan were unconstitutional because they were not given due process.

Keep reading…http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/07/doj-k...holder-said-so/

Levin was right. We have an imperial president. He is five months into his second term. Oh, joy.

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Levin was right. We have an imperial president. He is four months into his second term. Oh, joy.

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Levin was right. We have an imperial president. He is four months into his second term. Oh, joy.

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Did you ever imagine (especially as a young person) that we would experience this in our lifetimes?

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Levin was right. We have an imperial president. He is four months into his second term. Oh, joy.

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Did you ever imagine (especially as a young person) that we would experience this in our lifetimes?

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In 2002-3, I knew that America that I knew was gone. It is just accelerating faster than I thought it would.

We have the NSA watching our every move for the past seven years. That is what I read today.

After the disappointment of George W. Bush I don't care who is president anymore. It doesn't matter.

Goliath cannot be tamed because there is no David to save us.

One day we will attempt to save ourselves. I fear that day.

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Very wise and weighty words, my friend. (No McCain!)

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Very wise and weighty words, my friend. (No McCain!)

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Did you think it would happen this fast, FP?

Care to share your thoughts?

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Very wise and weighty words, my friend. (No McCain!)

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Did you think it would happen this fast, FP?

Care to share your thoughts?

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Certainly not when I was a young person, not one bit.

This fast? That's a good question. The "timing" part has always had me confused, it still does. Sometimes I think that it will be coming hard and fast, other times I still think it may be the slow boil that is the preference.

I shared some "personal" thoughts in that "Rubio immigration" thread earlier today, that's probably enough for one day (or week, or month, or year perhaps). But in short: none of it surprises me any more, and I am trying my damnedest to still live as a free man for as long as I can, I am not giving in to the bastids emotionally or spiritually.

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