Update: NDAA lawsuit victory
More great news on the NDAA lawsuit:
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In May Chris Hedges, RevolutionTruth, et al won their lawsuit asserting that indefinite detention violates the Constitution.
Obama asked for a reversal of that decision, which was just rejected.
More than 50,000 Demand Progress members have signed on as supporters of the lawsuit.
Now Obama needs to decide if he'll take his crusade against the Constitution to a higher court.
And the full Senate is taking up indefinite detention as it debates this year's NDAA later this month.
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Obama signed last year's National Defense Authorization Act even though it included provisions which could let the military detain civilians indefinitely without a trial or charges.
Despite a valiant effort by opponents, the House retained indefinite detention when it passed the new NDAA last month.
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Today's Politically Incorrect Headlines:
- Palin on the Wisconsin recall battle
- FUNNIEST VIDEO YOU’LL SEE ALL DAY: What Counts As An Obama ‘Green Job?’
- Romney Cash Haul Tops Obama
- Wisconsin Voters Agree: Walker’s Reforms Work
- Dysfunctional Washington
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- Bombshell: Fast & Furious Wiretaps Show Holder’s DOJ Knew
- Libtalker Bill Press: National Anthem Is “Stupid And Embarrassing”
- US Already in ‘Recession,’ Extend Tax Cuts: Bill Clinton
- Issa: Obama administration classifies jobs with political purpose
- The Democrat Crime Family War
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- Charting the Producers vs. the Takers
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The Founding Fathers Guide To The Constitution by Brion McClanahan  "[N]either
major American political party adheres to [the] Constitution; many of
our elected representatives are ignorant of its text and original
meaning. The only hope lies in a better educated public. Americans don't
need judges, lawyers, politicians, or ivory tower academics descending
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have already done that for us. We just need to read what they said and
hold politicians in Washington accountable," writes Brion McClanahan as
he closes his book The Founding Fathers Guide To The Constitution. And McClanahan has taken an important step in making obtaining that education simpler with his book.For those without the time or inclination to read the thoughts of those who participated in the process of debating, drafting and ratifying the Constitution — the Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers and the text of the ratification debates — this book is an excellent place to begin obtaining a greater understanding of the Nation's founding document. More » |
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Breaking News from Western Journalism
Jun 07, 2012 02:33 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 07, 2012 02:30 pm | Doug Book
Recalled
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won the special election against Tom
Barrett on Tuesday, his 7 point win an improvement over the 6-point 2010
margin of victory. And as for the $21 million FOX News reported
organized labor to have… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 02:28 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 07, 2012 02:27 pm | Cagle Cartoons
Jun 07, 2012 02:25 pm | Michael Reagan
No
wonder Republicans can’t even get 40 percent of Latino votes in a
presidential election.
When Mitt Romney made his first big push to appeal to Latinos earlier
this week in Texas, he hammered the “Obama economy” for being
“particularly… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 02:23 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 07, 2012 01:59 pm | Kevin "Coach" Collins
The
“You can’t say anything bad about the Black Guy” Syndrome loosely
translates to “Leave me alone; I’m voting for the black guy.” This
presents a long-term problem for Barack Obama. It will cause him to fight blindly for the… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 01:55 pm | Daniel Noe
The
results of our latest poll show that 79% of our readers believe that
the GOP should have selected someone other than Mitt Romney as their
nominee for president.
Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Vote… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 01:50 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 07, 2012 01:10 pm | Breaking News
Barack
Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s
and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate–contrary to the
misrepresentations of Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, and in
spite of the efforts of Politico’s… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 01:05 pm | MJNellett
Recently
in the news, it was reported that the Pentagon discovered that about
1800 crates worth of Chinese manufactured parts for some of our
technology-driven weapons are USELESS! Apparently, the companies that
brought these parts into the United States didn’t… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 12:18 pm | Breaking News
A
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they have written, and now Sen. Saxby… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 12:15 pm | Daniel Noe
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entertainment news than the results of the Wisconsin recall election. On
CBS This Morning, Disney’s new ban on junk… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 11:56 am | Breaking News
In
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Women’s… Continue to Post
Jun 07, 2012 11:45 am | Breaking News
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United Nations, which continues uninterrupted to promote itself as the
world’s infallible, fuzzy warm blanket is, in reality, a fetid swamp
with everything that grows there poisonous to the outside world.
Its original homestead was an abattoir where the… Continue to Post
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Obama Bombs Civilians, Then Police & First Aid, And Then Their Funerals, Again
by
Alexander Higgins
A shocking new tactic is emerging on the battlefield in the War on
Terror which involves first bombing targets which is then followed by
the bombing of first responders attempting to help the victims of first
bombings and then finally bombing the funeral were people are gathering
to mourn the victims.
Obama’s new tactic of targeting funerals and first responders was fist revealed in a report in a shocking report from the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in February.
At that time of that report the tactic of bombing funerals or first aid responders was known only to have been used separately from each other.
The three-day bombing spree that started this Saturday in Pakistan establishes a pattern in which repeated the use of these tactics in conjunction with in an attempt to flush a single target out of hiding.
The bombings so far are confirmed to have killed at least 27 people and started with two separate attacks.
The first was the dropping of 6 bombs on a two individuals said to be riding a motor bike.
The second attack involved bombing a mosque during worship in an attack that destroyed nearby houses which followed multiple strikes on homes the previous day.
When police and first aid responders attempt to retrieved and help the wounded from the wreckage they were bombed.
Then private gatherings to mourn the dead were held because public funeral are often bombed by the Americans and those gatherings were bombed as well.
Finally on Tuesday, the US government reported that Monday’s bombings took out the intended target.
In order to put these bombings in context, please watch the following video.
Many visualize these bombings to small targeted bombings because the propagandists have repeatedly used words such as “strike”, “precision”, “targeted”, “guided” to create such a visualization in our head.
This is not the case at all and as you can see in the video below these “drone strikes” drop massive bombs that can take out entire city blocks.
Obama’s new method to take out terrorists – bomb woman and children, then bomb the civilian police and other first aid responders, and then bomb their funerals.
A shocking new tactic is emerging on the battlefield in the War on
Terror which involves first bombing targets which is then followed by
the bombing of first responders attempting to help the victims of first
bombings and then finally bombing the funeral were people are gathering
to mourn the victims.Obama’s new tactic of targeting funerals and first responders was fist revealed in a report in a shocking report from the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in February.
At that time of that report the tactic of bombing funerals or first aid responders was known only to have been used separately from each other.
The three-day bombing spree that started this Saturday in Pakistan establishes a pattern in which repeated the use of these tactics in conjunction with in an attempt to flush a single target out of hiding.
The bombings so far are confirmed to have killed at least 27 people and started with two separate attacks.
The first was the dropping of 6 bombs on a two individuals said to be riding a motor bike.
The second attack involved bombing a mosque during worship in an attack that destroyed nearby houses which followed multiple strikes on homes the previous day.
When police and first aid responders attempt to retrieved and help the wounded from the wreckage they were bombed.
Then private gatherings to mourn the dead were held because public funeral are often bombed by the Americans and those gatherings were bombed as well.
Finally on Tuesday, the US government reported that Monday’s bombings took out the intended target.
In order to put these bombings in context, please watch the following video.
Many visualize these bombings to small targeted bombings because the propagandists have repeatedly used words such as “strike”, “precision”, “targeted”, “guided” to create such a visualization in our head.
This is not the case at all and as you can see in the video below these “drone strikes” drop massive bombs that can take out entire city blocks.
In fact, there are many reports of a bomb taking out a mosque and several surrounding homes containing entire families.
Hellfire missiles being loaded on to a US military Reaper drone
Video Clip Shows Massive Size Of US Bomb Explosion
This is premeditated, as Jeremy Scahill of the Nation puts it, mass murder of innocent civilians which is being repeatedly being ordered personally by President Obama with the tactics progressively getting more sickening.
Glenn Greenwald reports:
In February, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism documented that after the U.S. kills people with drones in Pakistan, it then targets for death those who show up at the scene to rescue the survivors and retrieve the bodies, as well as those who gather to mourn the dead at funerals: “the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals.” As The New York Times summarized those findings: “at least 50 civilians had been killed in follow-up strikes after they rushed to help those hit by a drone-fired missile” while “the bureau counted more than 20 other civilians killed in strikes on funerals.”From The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
This repellent practice continues. Over the last three days, the U.S. has launched three separate drone strikes in Pakistan: one on each day. As The Guardian reports, the U.S. has killed between 20 and 30 people in these strikes, the last of which, early this morning, killed between 8 and 15. It was the second strike, on Sunday, that targeted mourners gathered to grieve those killed in the first strike:
At the time of the attack, suspected militants had gathered to offer condolences to the brother of a militant commander killed during another US unmanned drone attack on Saturday. The brother was one of those who died in the Sunday morning attack. The Pakistani officials said two of the dead were foreigners and the rest were Pakistani.Note that there is no suggestion, even from the “officials” on which these media reports (as usual) rely, that the dead man was a Terrorist or even a “militant.” He was simply receiving condolences for his dead brother. But pursuant to the standards embraced by President Obama, the brother — without knowing anything about him — is inherently deemed a “combatant” and therefore a legitimate target for death solely by virtue of being a “military-age male in a strike zone.” Of course, killing family members of bombing targets is nothing new for this President: let’s recall the still-unresolved question of why Anwar Awlaki’s 16-year-old American son, Abdulrahman, was killed by a U.S. drone attack in Yemen two weeks after his father was killed.
Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.
The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a ‘targeted, focused effort’ that ‘has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.’
Speaking publicly for the first time on the controversial CIA drone strikes, Obama claimed last week they are used strictly to target terrorists, rejecting what he called ‘this perception we’re just sending in a whole bunch of strikes willy-nilly’.
‘Drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties’, he told a questioner at an on-line forum. ‘This is a targeted, focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists trying to go in and harm Americans’.
But research by the Bureau has found that since Obama took office three years ago, between 282 and 535 civilians have been credibly reported as killed including more than 60 children. A three month investigation including eye witness reports has found evidence that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. The tactics have been condemned by leading legal experts.
[...]
State-sanctioned extra-judicial executions
But some international law specialists fiercely disagree, arguing that the strikes amount to little more than state-sanctioned extra-judicial executions and questioning how the US government would react if another state such as China or Russia started taking such action against those they declare as enemies.
[...]A CIA drone fired its missiles into the Taliban group, killing at least a dozen people. Villagers joined surviving Taliban as they tried to retrieve the dead and injured.
But as rescuers clambered through the demolished house the drones struck again. Two missiles slammed into the rubble, killing many more. At least 29 people died in total.
[...]
Yusufzai, who reported on the attack, says those killed in the follow-up strike ‘were trying to pull out the bodies, to help clear the rubble, and take people to hospital.’ The impact of drone attacks on rescuers has been to scare people off, he says: ‘They’ve learnt that something will happen. No one wants to go close to these damaged building anymore.’
Source: The Bureau of Investigative JournalismEmpty Wheel reports:
[...] a report from Chris Woods and Christina Lamb at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism delivered the shocking newsthat CIA targeting practices for drone attacks include the intentional targeting of mourners at funerals and first responders to initial attacks:As Woods and Lamb point out, targeting mourners and first responders is a practice that is both heinous and likely to include civilian deaths along with those who are military targets. However, it now appears that the strikes that took out Abu Yahya al-Libi included both a strike on mourners and possibly a strike on first responders, so it seems likely now that there will be a push from Obama administration figures to provide a patina of glory derived from taking out al-Qaeda’s number two in command to a practice that Woods and Lamb pointed out amounts to “little more than extra-judicial executions”.The Daily Mail reports:
Before it was known that al-Libi had likely been killed, Glenn Greenwald pointed out yesterday that Monday’s strikes had been aimed at mourners and I pointed out that locals in the vicinity feared a follow-on strike hitting first responders. Greenwald cited and quoted from a Guardian article pointing out the mourner aspect of the strike. More details come from this article in Pakistan Today:
A US drone targeted a compound believed to be used by militant commanders Mullah Nazir and Commander Malang in the Wocha Dana Beermal area of South Waziristan.Multiple reports indicate that two missiles were used in the attack that killed al-Libi. The Los Angeles Times indicates that both a house and a vehicle were destroyed, adding to the possibility raised in the Express Tribune article I quoted on Monday that the second missile may have been aimed at rescuers responding to the first. The Times article says that all three drone attacks Saturday, Sunday and Monday were targeted at al-Libi:
While officials in various intelligence agencies have confirmed al-Libi’s death, officials in the United States endorsed that al-Libi was the target of Monday’s drone strike. There has not been any confirmation or rejection of the report by al Qaeda yet. According to reports, the militants had gathered in the compound to condole the death of Malang’s brother who was killed the previous day in a drone attack in the same area.
The CIA had targeted Libi with three separate drone-launched missile attacks over three days, finally succeeding early Monday in strikes that destroyed a house and a vehicle, U.S. and Pakistani officials said.Death tolls from the weekend of attacks vary widely depending on sources. The LA Times article cited above quotes a “US official”:
Reports from Pakistan said as many as 15 people were killed in the drone strikes. The U.S. official said that figure was “wildly inaccurate” and insisted that the death toll was “less than a handful.”Similarly, the New York Times reports:
American officials said that Mr. Libi was the only person who died in the attack, although others were present in the compound. A tribesman from the area, speaking by phone and citing Taliban sources, said that three to five militants had been killed. But he agreed that no civilians had died because there had been no public funerals in the area.[...]Source: Empty Wheel
Attack of the drones: 27 killed in just three days as U.S. increase strikes in Pakistan
U.S. drone attacks on Pakistan have entered their third consecutive day, with rockets killing 15 people in northwest Pakistan this afternoon.
The strike targeted a militant hideout in the Hesokhel village of the North Waziristan tribal region, officials said.
It brought the death toll from drone attacks in Pakistan in the past three days to 27.
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Rand Paul: An insult...
I remember exactly where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001.
I'm sure you do too.
And when Seal Team 6 delivered justice to Osama Bin Laden, Americans felt a sense of pride in our military.
But that mission was a success because of the assistance provided by a courageous Pakistani doctor named Shakil Afridi.
Dr. Afridi ran a vaccination campaign that collected blood samples from the Bin Laden family at their compound in Abbottabad, and assisted the CIA hunt for the mass murderer.
Now Dr. Afridi has been sentenced to 33 years in prison by our supposed ally Pakistan for assisting America in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
This is an outrage, and every American should be insulted by congress continuing to fund the Pakistani government that is imprisoning a hero like Dr. Afridi.
Not one penny of taxpayer money should be sent to Pakistan until they free him.
Yesterday, I gave a speech about my proposed amendment to immediately cut off the $1 billion in aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi is released from prison.
You can watch the video of my speech by clicking the link below.
www.randpacusa.com/video4.aspx
If Dr. Afridi is to gain his freedom, America needs to negotiate from a position of strength.
The Pakistani government will chuckle at President Obama’s “threats” of a mere three percent cut in aid.
America’s position must be: “No freedom for Dr. Afridi, no money.”
After you watch the video, please chip in a contribution so RANDPAC can continue to lead the fight to free Dr. Afridi by urging senators to support my amendment to cut off all foreign aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi is released from prison.
www.randpacusa.com/video4.aspx
Thanks for all that you do,
Rand
I'm sure you do too.
And when Seal Team 6 delivered justice to Osama Bin Laden, Americans felt a sense of pride in our military.
But that mission was a success because of the assistance provided by a courageous Pakistani doctor named Shakil Afridi.
Dr. Afridi ran a vaccination campaign that collected blood samples from the Bin Laden family at their compound in Abbottabad, and assisted the CIA hunt for the mass murderer.
Now Dr. Afridi has been sentenced to 33 years in prison by our supposed ally Pakistan for assisting America in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
This is an outrage, and every American should be insulted by congress continuing to fund the Pakistani government that is imprisoning a hero like Dr. Afridi.
Not one penny of taxpayer money should be sent to Pakistan until they free him.
Yesterday, I gave a speech about my proposed amendment to immediately cut off the $1 billion in aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi is released from prison.
You can watch the video of my speech by clicking the link below.
www.randpacusa.com/video4.aspx
If Dr. Afridi is to gain his freedom, America needs to negotiate from a position of strength.
The Pakistani government will chuckle at President Obama’s “threats” of a mere three percent cut in aid.
America’s position must be: “No freedom for Dr. Afridi, no money.”
After you watch the video, please chip in a contribution so RANDPAC can continue to lead the fight to free Dr. Afridi by urging senators to support my amendment to cut off all foreign aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi is released from prison.
www.randpacusa.com/video4.aspx
Thanks for all that you do,
Rand
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