What the Obama administration tried to hide in its 'Friday newsdump' was its response filing to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki's father asking a court to enjoin Obama from assass!nating his son, a US citizen, without any due process.
The administration filed a brief late Thursday night asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit without hearing the merits of the claims.
That's not surprising: both the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly insisted that their secret conduct is legal but nonetheless urge courts not to even rule on its legality.
But what's most notable here is that one of the arguments the Obama DOJ raises to demand dismissal of this lawsuit is "state secrets": in other words, not only does a president have the right to sentence Americans to de@th with no due process or charges of any kind, but his decisions as to who will be k!lled and why he wants them de@d are "state secrets," and thus no court may adjudicate their legality.
That, in and of itself, should be shocking to all Americans.
That Obama would do this on the heels of the 2008 campaign where he campaigned for himself as a champion of the Constitution and against Bush's disregard for the rule of law, in addition to the fact that Awlaki has never been charged with a crime, much less convicted, leaves no doubt about Obama's character: He has none.
To those of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' who are trying to defend Obama's actions by downplaying this assault on the Constitution's protections of citizens' privacy or that "the times call for it", or that "Clinton did it, too, so it must be ok", or that people "are overreacting; Obama's not going to be illegally taping anyone, or expanding his federal authority one iota" (that one is a flat-out false assertion), etc., should think very carefully about their blind loyalty to a man and a party whose interests are not those of the average American.
Because we see very dramatically in the last decade of Bush-Cheney abuses, DLC-controlled Democratic administrations and Congresses don't bring previous criminal administrations to justice or overturn their abuses.
DLC-controlled Democrats are building upon the GOP's abuses. We the People can't count on the the courts to be the last resort to save us and the Constitution from these assaults; the wheels of justice grind too slowly, but especially since both parties have packed the courts with anti-populist, pro-corporate judges.
There's no coming back from this.
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