CIA Kill List and President's Claim to Selectively Murder 'Terrorists' Without Trial or Due Process...
Make no mistake--the Awlaki case IS an 'extra-judicial' murder, ordered by a committee of bureaucrats and the President. Constitutional scholar Glenn Greenwald explained the danger of this secretive committee. Greenwald made it simple for this hapless Attorney General-- bluntly explaining that the US government has illegitimately seized power the 5th Amendment was specifically designed to forbid..("NO PERSON SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW") by criminalizing constitutionally protected activities as CLEARLY cited in the 1st Amendment. Greenwald states that the 1st Amendment protects both expression of politically dangerous ideas, but also the actual attendance at anti-government speeches, even those which advocate the violent overthrow of the same government.
Glenn Greenwald Gives AG Holder a Law Lesson...
Greenwald cited the Supreme Court's unanimous 1969 decision in the case of Brandenburg v. Ohio. The Brandenburg case (which is routinely studied in the first semester of any law school), overturned the criminal conviction of a Klu Klux Klan leader who was advocating voilence against political representatives, and in doing so struck down an Ohio statute which made it a crime to...
..."advocate...the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing INDUSTRIAL OR POLITICAL REFORM"...and/or to ..."VOLUNTARILY ASSEMBLE with any society, group, or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal syndicalism."
Greenwald also points out that members of our US Senate still fail to grasp these basic concepts of free assembly, free speech and association, citing a statement made byTea Party freshman Sen. Rand Paul on Sean Hannity's radio show. Sen. Rand Paul was demanding the arrest of those who
..."ATTEND radical political speeches," adding that ..."if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that's really an offense that we should be going after--they should be deported or put in prison."
Ironically, Sen. Paul made this clueless statement one week after leading opposition to the Patriot Act's re-authorization on CIVIL LIBERTIES CONCERNS. Seems like Sen. Paul only considers civil liberties for those who blindly agree with his limited purview of liberty itself.
(Source: http://politics.salon.com/2011/06/01/free_speech_4/)
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