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Florida man cites ‘Bush doctrine’ after pre-emptive killing of neighbors

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“Lawyers for a Florida man this week cited President George W. Bush’s pre-emptive war in Iraq and the ‘Bush Doctrine’ as a defense after their client killed two neighbors and attempted to kill a third on Labor Day.  According to officials in Titusville, Woodward had snuck up on his neighbors while they were having a Labor Day barbecue. Police responding to the scene found that Gary Lee Hembree, Roger Picior and Bruce Timothy had all been shot. Hembree and Picior were later pronounced dead. Blake survived, even though he had been hit 11 times.  In their motion, Woodward’s attorneys claimed that the victims had called him names and threatened to ‘get him.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/florida-man-cites-bush-doctrine-after-pre-emptive-killing-of-neighbors-at-labor-day-cookout/

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Heated Rand Paul Vs. John Kerry Debate At Syria Military Action Hearing

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Heated Rand Paul Vs. John Kerry Debate At Syria Military Action Hearing

“Madison was very explicit. When he wrote the Federalist Papers, he wrote that history supposes, or the Constitution supposes what history demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch most likely to go to war and therefore the Constitution vested that power in the Congress. It’s explicit and runs throughout all of Madison’s writings. This power is a Congressional power and is not an Executive power. They didn’t say big war, small war. They didn’t say boots on the ground, not boots on the ground. They said declare war. Ask the people on the ships launching the missiles whether they’re involved with war or not.”

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Kerry’s Morally, Linguistically, and Historically Obscene Case for War in Syria

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“Unfortunately for the politician who made famous the line ‘How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?‘, Kerry’s case in front of the committee was more a textbook example of how acting as the world’s policeman for decades has warped the country’s values, judgment, and even language.  I counted at least seven moments that qualified in my judgment as obscene, exposing along the way the administration’s empty and contradictory arguments for air-mailing death upon a regime that does not pose a direct threat in the United States.”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/04/john-kerrys-morally-linguistically-and-h

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U.S. denies missile test in the Mediterranean linked to Syria

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“A missile test in the Mediterranean carried out by Israel and the United States on Tuesday had no connection to possible US military action against Syria, the Pentagon said.  The joint military exercise, which came as Washington weighed punitive strikes against the Syrian regime, had been previously scheduled and was designed to assess Israel’s missile defenses, Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. He added that the United States and Israel cooperate on various ballistic missile defense development programs ‘to address common challenges in the region.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/u-s-denies-missile-test-in-the-mediterranean-linked-to-syria/

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Syria asks United Nations to ‘prevent Western aggression’

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“Syria’s UN representative Bashar al-Jaafari said the government ‘calls on the UN secretary general to assume his responsibilities… and to make efforts to prevent any aggression against Syria,’ the state news agency SANA reported.  The letter also urged the United Nations to help seek a ‘peaceful political solution to the crisis’ in Syria, where more than 110,000 people have been killed in violence since an uprising against the regime began in March 2011.  The report came as Russia adopted an increasingly antagonistic posture against the use of force in Syria, further beefing up its naval presence in the region with the dispatch of an intelligence ship to the Mediterranean.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10280725/Syria-asks-United-Nations-to-prevent-Western-aggression.html

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U.S. steps up Pakistan surveillance: ‘black budget’ analysis

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“America has delivered nearly $26 billion in aid to Pakistan over the past 12 years, with the money aimed at stabilizing the country and ensuring its cooperation in counterterrorism efforts, according to the paper.  US spy agencies reported that senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials knew of and possibly ordered a broad campaign of extrajudicial killings of militants and other adversaries, the Post said.  Public disclosure of the reports could have forced the administration of President Barack Obama to sever aid to the Pakistani armed forces. This is because of a US law that prohibits military assistance to human rights abusers.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/u-s-steps-up-pakistan-surveillance-washington-post-black-budget-analysis/

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U.S. Officials Are Above the Law of Nations and Ordinary Laws

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“With regard to Nuremberg ideas of law and sanctions against aggressive war, the U.S. government considers itself above all that. It’s a case of ‘now you see it, now you don’t’. If the U.S. decides to bomb somebody and wants to mention Nuremberg as a justification (or its equivalent like a charge of killing one’s own people), now you see it. If it decides its own officials can get away with aggression against Iraq, now you don’t.  The fact of the matter is that the U.S. government regards itself as a law unto itself. It is the supreme and only superpower, by virtue of which what it says, goes. And what it says is law, it also claims.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/u-s-officials-are-above-the-law-of-nations-and-ordinary-laws/

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The State: Judge in its Own Cause

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“Is this really a nation of laws, though? There’s an old legal principle, ‘nemo iudex in causa sua,’ which translated into English means ‘no one should be the judge of their own cause.’ But in fact all the laws theoretically limiting the state’s power are interpreted by — wait for it — officials of the state.  The commission of the actual military, intelligence and diplomatic crimes themselves, the classification of documents that evidence those crimes, and the setting of civil and criminal penalties for revealing wickedness in high places — all these things are done by officials of the same government.”

http://c4ss.org/content/20984

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“Absolute Immunity” for the “Supreme Crime”

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“One week before whistleblower Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for exposing war crimes, the Obama administration filed a petition with a federal court in San Francisco arguing that George W. Bush and his top advisers enjoy ‘absolute immunity’ against any potential criminal charges or civil liability arising from the Iraq war.  At the Nuremberg Tribunal following World War II, aggressive war was designated the ‘supreme crime,’ and it was recognized that faithful execution of unlawful orders does not immunize soldiers for their actions in waging aggressive war. High-ranking officials of the National Socialist Party were sent to the gallows for the crime committed by Bush and his cohorts.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/absolute-immunity-for-the-supreme-crime/

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Glenn Greenwald: Obama, Congress and Syria

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“The Congressional vote which Obama said he would seek appears, in his mind, to have no binding force at all. There is no reason to believe that a Congressional rejection of the war’s authorization would constrain Obama in any way, other than perhaps politically. To the contrary, there is substantial evidence for the proposition that the White House sees the vote as purely advisory, i.e., meaningless.  Recall how – in one of most overlooked bad acts of the Obama administration – the House of Representatives actually voted, overwhelmingly, against authorizing the US war in Libya, and yet Obama simply ignored the vote and proceeded to prosecute the war anyway.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/obama-congress-syria-authorization

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