Posted on 03/31/2009 5:17:47 AM PDT by libstripper
What is wrong with this picture? We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisors to President George W. Bush - including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith. The alleged crime? The opinions they provided Mr. Bush supported the use of torture against enemy combatants.
Most Americans would find this assertion of what has come to be called "transnational law" to be troubling on several grounds. Its application is an affront to due process and the rule of law in this country. It would criminalize internal U.S. policy-making deliberations, with profound implications for U.S. sovereignty. If allowed to run its course, this prosecution would have a profoundly chilling effect on the willingness of subordinates to provide a president with advice, or perhaps even to serve in government.
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Is there something missing from the article’s title? No matter how I parse it, I can’t make “Lawfare and Obama’s Transnationalist” mean anything.
It will be interesting when the concept of TRANSNATIONAL LAW comes to full fruition. We will ALL, each and every one be prosecuted for the violation of the law in a foreign country.
Did you have PORK STRIPS in that Chinese Restaurant last night. You are GUILTY under Saudi Arabian Sharia Law.. off with your head.
When you drove across Ohio last week you violated the speed limits of Belgium. Goodbye driver’s license.
What we are “dealing” with the the continuation of the insane drive of the American Media to wreak their own sick vengeance on the men of the BUSH administration. The same sickness infects those in the LEGAL INDUSTRY who desperately seek somewhere, anywhere, a law that they can use to further their own insanity.
Question...where does this end?
The word “lawfare” means use of trumped up legal proceedings as a form of warfare against the United States. The rest of the article shows Obama has nominated a “transnationalist” who supports lawfare against the United States as one of the State Department’s leading attorneys, a horrible development.
......The word “lawfare” means use of trumped up legal proceedings as a form of warfare against the United States. ......
This is precisely what the Sierra Club, NRAL, ACLU,and all enviros do. Thet have implemented tyranny of the law where no action takes place because the action is curtailed by legal proceedings.
Real war is the only way to displace the tyrants
“It will be interesting when the concept of TRANSNATIONAL LAW comes to full fruition. We will ALL, each and every one be prosecuted for the violation of the law in a foreign country.
Did you have PORK STRIPS in that Chinese Restaurant last night. You are GUILTY under Saudi Arabian Sharia Law.. off with your head.
When you drove across Ohio last week you violated the speed limits of Belgium. Goodbye driver’s license.
What we are “dealing” with the the continuation of the insane drive of the American Media to wreak their own sick vengeance on the men of the BUSH administration. The same sickness infects those in the LEGAL INDUSTRY who desperately seek somewhere, anywhere, a law that they can use to further their own insanity.
Question...where does this end?”
It does`nt end.
Just another reasn why the US must NEVER become part of the ICC! I suppect Bambi doesn’t understand this!
Lawyers on a rope...
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