Strela-2, FEMA wagons, Gore complains, Cronkite complains

Another day, another chopper downed by Strela-2
bareknucklepolitics points to the video popdrain

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FEMA wagons, concentration camp next stop
16Jan06 rawstory Al Gore complains:
..The President claims that he can imprison American citizens indefinitely for the rest of their lives without an arrest warrant, without notifying them about what charges have been filed against them, and without informing their families that they have been imprisoned...
At the same time, the Executive Branch has claimed a previously unrecognized authority to mistreat prisoners in its custody in ways that plainly constitute torture in a pattern that has now been documented in U.S. facilities located in several countries around the world.

..an effort by the same administration to rework America's foreign policy from one that is based primarily on U.S. moral authority (sic) into one that is based on a misguided and self-defeating effort to establish dominance in the world.
Over 100 of these captives have reportedly died while being tortured by Executive Branch interrogators

..The Dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, said after analyzing the Executive Branch's claims of these previously unrecognized powers: "If the President has commander-in-chief power to commit torture, he has the power to commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to license summary execution."


re "U.S. moral authority. This is a joke. USA has overthrown governments in Iran, Congo, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc etc and sponsored mass murder by death squads in dozens of countries. What Al Gore is incensed about is the current regime is dropping all pretense of restraint by law in the home base of Empire. Get used to it Al

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15Jan06 Walter Cronkite "It's my belief that we should get out now,"
Strela-2 FEMA wagons Gore complains Cronkite complains