Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "Theodore Roosevelt -- no greater superpatriot -- said in 1918 during the First World War: 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.'
During the Second World War, within a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor, Senator Robert A. Taft, 'Mr. Republican,' took the same line: 'I believe that there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government..... Too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think it will give some comfort to the enemy.... If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country more good than it will do the enemy, and it will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.'"
1.04.2006
Judge Rejects Gov't Claims on Detainees - Yahoo! News
Judge Rejects Gov't Claims on Detainees - Yahoo! News: "'The
Department of Defense has failed to come forward on this motion with anything but thin and conclusory speculation to support its claims of possible retaliation,' Rakoff wrote.
The AP filed its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Defense to have government documents related to military hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees made public.
Dave Tomlin, the AP's general counsel, applauded the judge's decision."
Department of Defense has failed to come forward on this motion with anything but thin and conclusory speculation to support its claims of possible retaliation,' Rakoff wrote.
The AP filed its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Defense to have government documents related to military hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees made public.
Dave Tomlin, the AP's general counsel, applauded the judge's decision."
1.03.2006
Paul Craig Roberts: a Gestapo Administration
Paul Craig Roberts: a Gestapo Administration: "Compared to Spygate, Watergate was a kindergarden picnic. The Bush administration's lies, felonies, and illegalities have revealed it to be a criminal administration with a police state mentality and police state methods. Now Bush and his attorney general have gone the final step and declared Bush to be above the law. Bush aggressively mimics Hitler's claim that defense of the realm entitles him to ignore the rule of law."
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