Defending the President as tyrant
Consortium News
by Robert Parry
06/27/08
All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves. … Kings and tyrants often inflicted special pain on people they viewed as challenging their authority and — at such times — they wiped away the rules of justice. But the United States was supposed to be different. … Which is why it was stunning to watch the June 26 hearing before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution as two representatives of George W. Bush’s presidency responded with disdain when pressed on the administration’s extraordinary vision of an all-powerful Executive operating without legal limits...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062608.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyrant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry
by Robert Parry
06/27/08
All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves. … Kings and tyrants often inflicted special pain on people they viewed as challenging their authority and — at such times — they wiped away the rules of justice. But the United States was supposed to be different. … Which is why it was stunning to watch the June 26 hearing before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution as two representatives of George W. Bush’s presidency responded with disdain when pressed on the administration’s extraordinary vision of an all-powerful Executive operating without legal limits...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062608.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyrant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry
rudkla - 27. Jun, 11:27
