President Obama compares militant fighters attacking remote US allies on the other side of the planet to the University of Texas clocktower sniper in order to argue that their US citizenship shouldn’t protect them from being blown up by a drone…as if the threat to Americans were analogous.
Stymied by the Core
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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At what point in time did the U.S. government replace the Nazis with their disregard of the Supreme Law of the Land, including the Bill of Rights and international treaties?
1. Native Americans. Not genocide because, while the US killed a bigger percentage than the Nazis killed Jews, the US didn’t know it was possible to exterminate a race, so it was just trying to carve out 100% or so for decent Americans, not exterminating Native Americans. Allowed by the Supreme Law of the Land, just as exterminating Jews was allowed by the Supreme Law of the Third Reich.
2. Enslaving Africans. Which was what the Nazis planned to do to the Slavs. But the Slavs had tanks and additional materiel from the US, so that didn’t work out as well for the Nazis as enslaving Africans did for the Southern plantation owners in the US (before 1863 or so). Allowed by the Supreme Law of the Land, just as enslaving Slavs was allowed by the Supreme Law of the Third Reich.
3. Japanese (not considered Japanese Americans because, in spite of Supreme Court rulings, most Americans ‘knew’ the 14th Amendment didn’t apply to East Asians before 1946).
4. And after 9/11, the US president can kill anyone for any reason or for no reason to keep us safe. He has classified information we lack. The Patriot Act has not been overturned by the SCOTUS, so it’s officially the Supreme Law of the Land, and allows the POTUS to see all, know all, and kill all, with absolutely no oversight of any kind.
I tend to be sarcastic when I say the POTUS has the right to kill anyone and everyone without a trial if he and he alone declares them to be enemy combatants. But at least 1/3 of those commenting on gocomics are NOT being sarcastic, and condemn Mr Rall for not being a patriotic American when he fails to support our President in his relentless efforts to keep us safe by randomly killing hundreds of people each week based on classified evidence that no one is allowed to question without having his patriotism disparaged.
@ michaelwme –
I’d say you’re on target. I can’t disagree with anything you’ve posted there. My problem is this: Does might make right?
When does the revolution start????
«[M]olten inner core» ?!! Ted, the Earth is certainly flat, as any unbiased reading of the Bible suffices to demonstrate, so I’m certain that those super bullets could cause a lot of trouble. Better see to it that the CIA doesn’t provide «Mujahedin» and «freedom fighters» with such weapons ; the blowback could be disastrous !…
Henri