tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post5730538584563365245..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: It's Not That I Disagree With The Thesis...Darrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-77370003459379413422013-02-06T16:10:12.448-08:002013-02-06T16:10:12.448-08:00"You don't get due process when you'r...<i>"You don't get due process when you're getting shot on the modern battlefield, this is just an extension of that."</i><br /><br />The "limit" problem to this is that:<br /><br />(a) I find it unlikely that this war will ever be declared as over. There won't be enough congress-critters who will want to risk claiming that it is over and then seeing another Twin Towers type disaster. So the US is effectively in a state of war forever. And,<br /><br />(b) Because of the nature of the war, the modern battlefield is pretty much everywhere.<br /><br />I don't see what is to prevent some US president in the future from claiming the right to do pretty much whatever he wants based on (a) and (b). It will have to happen gradually, but the indefinite detention of US citizens under the NDAA law seems like a nice start (granted, the courts have blocked it for now).<br /><br />Twenty years ago, passing this sort of thing as a law wouldn't have even come up as an option. Now we have this as a bill that congress has passed and the president has signed. Eventually, we'll have a court that allows it.<br /><br />Wash-rinse-repeat :-(<br /><br />I'd like to say that I see a logical limit to this, but I really don't.<br /><br />-Mark RouloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-72634474522863990882013-02-06T13:40:04.071-08:002013-02-06T13:40:04.071-08:00You don't get due process when you're gett...You don't get due process when you're getting shot on the modern battlefield, this is just an extension of that.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-47092355973640903492013-02-06T05:12:53.946-08:002013-02-06T05:12:53.946-08:00This just in ... politicians say things that they ...This just in ... politicians say things that they then either hedge or openly go back on. Bush, no new taxes? clinton, I did not have sex with tha woman? It's nothing new, save that this one violates the Constitution. I don't think there's been anyone killed yet who didn't deserve killing, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be. I get the enemy combatant argument ... but unless you're officially at war,it's treason...and you should still get due process.<br />maxutilshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11294262473781967372noreply@blogger.com