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Unexceptionalism - A Primer

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George W. Bush - "Cheating Justice" says Elizabeth Holtzman by Flickr
 If you're the newly anointed president, react to a terrorist attack by invading a nonterrorist country. Despite the loss or disablement of untold numbers of lives, manage your war so that its results will be indeterminate. Using the state of war as justification, order secret surveillance of American citizens, data mine their phone calls and e-mail, make business, medical and public library records available to government agencies, perform illegal warrantless searches of homes and offices. Take to torturing terrorism suspects, here or abroad, in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment. Unilaterally abrogate the Convention Against Torture as well as the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners of war. Commit to indeterminate detention without trial those you decide are enemies..

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He is "Cheating Justice" says Elizabeth Holtzman by Lance Ciepiela on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 10:23:32 AM
Bush, Cheney on trial for war crimes by Lance Ciepiela on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 10:58:21 AM