Submitted by George
Washington on 12/09/2011 13:31 -0500
By Washington’s Blog
Former judge and adjunct professor of constitutional law Andrew
Napolitano pointed out in March that the president's claim that he can
indefinitely detain prisoners - even after they are acquitted of their crimes - is a
power that even Hitler and Stalin didn't claim:
(While I strongly dislike Fox News and its barrage of disinformation, Judge
Napolitano knows his constitutional law, and gives very hard-hitting analysis of
the current state of the rule of law in America.)
Similarly, Chris Floyd wrote
Monday in connection with the new indefinite detention bill:
And whatever the outcome of this particular bill, the reality will remain the
same: the President of the United States will continue to claim — and exercise —
absolute arbitrary power over the life [yes, the government has also claimed the
power to assassinate
American citizens without trial or even oversight] and liberty of every
person on earth. As we’ve said here before, not even Adolf Hitler or Josef
Stalin at their most megalomaniacal ever dreamed of asserting the kind of
universal power now asserted by American presidents and the lickspittlish
lackeys in the United States Congress.
In case you think I'm being hard on Obama, please remember that progressive
constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald has long argued that Obama
is even more brutal than Bush, and has trashed even more of the Constitution
than Bush.
STRONGMEN HAVE BEEN SCARING THEIR PEOPLE INTO SUBMISSION FOR THOUSANDS OF
YEARS
Of course, Obama - like Bush - claims that tyrannical measures are necessary
to fight the war on terror. But FBI agents and CIA
intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley,
Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that
U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which
the American people would give them more power”, and even former Secretary of
Homeland Security – Tom Ridge – admits that he
was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection.
And Hitler, Stalin and other strongmen throughout history have also claimed
that tyrannical measures were necessary to fight their wars on
terror:
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first
appears he is a protector.”
- Plato
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy.”
- U.S. President James Madison
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than
a fear of sudden death”.
- Adolph Hitler
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of
the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag
the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack
of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any
country.”
- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.
“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of
terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is
threatened”.
- Josef Stalin
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