The Superpower And Its Secret $lavery



WHAT THE SUPERPOWER'S
DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY
MEANS


The Bush/Obama regimes have evaded the Geneva Conventions by declaring that detainees are not POWs, but “enemy combatants,” “terrorists,” or some other designation that removes all accountability from the US government for their treatment.



By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees.



A careful reading of the Obama regime’s objections to military detention supports this conclusion. The November 17 letter to the Senate from the Executive Office of the President says that the Obama regime does not want the authority it has under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Public Law 107-40, to be codified. Codification is risky, the regime says.. “After a decade of settled jurisprudence on detention authority, Congress must be careful not to open a whole new series of legal questions that will distract from our efforts to protect the country.”



In other words, the regime is saying that under AUMF the executive branch has total discretion as to whom it detains and how it treats detainees. Moreover, as the executive branch has total discretion, no one can find out what the executive branch is doing, who detainees are, or what is being done to them. Codification brings accountability, and the executive branch does not want accountability.



Those who see hope in Obama’s threatened veto have jumped to conclusions if they think the veto is based on constitutional scruples.



from:



The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples
Misreading the Fight Over Military Detention

by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

December 05, 2011

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/05/misreading-the-fight-over-military-detention/



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Relevant Pages

  • The Superpower And Its Secret $lavery
    ... By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees. ... Those who see hope in Obama’s threatened veto have jumped to conclusions if they think the veto is based on constitutional scruples. ...
    (soc.rights.human)
  • The Superpower And Its Secret $lavery
    ... By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees. ... Those who see hope in Obama’s threatened veto have jumped to conclusions if they think the veto is based on constitutional scruples. ...
    (soc.rights.human)
  • The Superpower And Its Secret $lavery
    ... By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees. ... Those who see hope in Obama’s threatened veto have jumped to conclusions if they think the veto is based on constitutional scruples. ...
    (soc.culture.usa)