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To: STARWISE
This President has woefully mismanaged the use of the awesome, and nearly unlimited, War Power of the United States.

By January 1, 1942 President Roosevelt had full press censorship, a 24/7 Federal propaganda machine, was reading the mail, and was threatening (credibly) sedition prosecutions. Shortly thereafter, he detained indefinitely American citizens suspected of sympathy with the enemy and seized their property, forbade use of the US mails for disseminating objectionable opinions and information, had foreign agents on our territory shot without trial, and denaturalized and deported thousands of US citizens.

All of these actions were subsequently found to be constitutional in a series of Supreme Court decisions.

96 posted on 12/17/2005 7:58:34 AM PST by Jim Noble (Non, je ne regrette rien)
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To: Jim Noble
This President has woefully mismanaged the use of the awesome, and nearly unlimited, War Power of the United States.

Is it a parallel situation w/o Congress declaring war?

Which we do not have . We have "authorization" whatever that is.

Is it the same as a declaration of war?

130 posted on 12/17/2005 8:09:31 AM PST by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing. Become a Monthly Donor! '98'er)
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