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Just Crazy

…was pre-Civil War Lincoln presidency;… How soon we forget. Why it would be as if George W Bush refused to enforce The Patriot Act which he had signed into law….

Due process rights

…that the 5th amendment banned war or self defence. I do insist that it allows no distinction between US citizens and non citizens. The Civil war was particularly horrible, but…

Postscript Regarding Geithner

…I think it was because of a legitimate belief that pursuing past criminality as criminality rather than through civil cases alone, would undermine those institutions’ solvency and thus the larger…

From an interview at Real News with Patrick Bond (the Director of the Center for Civil Society and Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa): And the idea…