Relatives of three Americans killed in drone strikes in Yemen are suing top Pentagon and CIA officials, saying the killings were unconstitutional.
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If You Can be Dismembered Without Due Process, What’s a Little Detention?
Once you have created categories of people who are subject to arbitrary killing, how difficult is it to create categories of people who are subject to arbitrary arrest? Apparently it is very easy.
So long due process
An amendment that would have explicitly excluded U.S. citizens from the bill’s military detention provisions failed by a 45-55 vote in the Senate, with only a handful of Tea Party Republicans — including Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., — breaking with their party to oppose selective martial law within the United States.
Stop in the Name of Private Property
Experts who follow this subject closely have described SOPA as the most draconian and egregious in the history of copyright enforcement. It would permit any plaintiff to presume the backing of the state to effectively shut down any website on complaint alone, and it would instill such a chilling atmosphere of fear that what we now call digital freedom would come to an end.
Stop in the Name of Private Property
Experts who follow this subject closely have described SOPA as the most draconian and egregious in the history of copyright enforcement. It would permit any plaintiff to presume the backing of the state to effectively shut down any website on complaint alone, and it would instill such a chilling atmosphere of fear that what we now call digital freedom would come to an end.
Presidential assasination plan – are you on the hit list?
Where is the outrage and the press coverage of this violation of our rights and freedoms. Remember the Department of homeland Security issued a report that pro-lifers, returning veterans and anti-government ideologies must be watched as potential terrorists.