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Old 07-05-12, 10:23 AM   #13
Bilge_Rat
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I am not really worried about the technology, after all we have all grown up in a world which could self destruct in 15 minutes of nuclear war.

What I find more worrying is the fact that the President now has the power of life and death over anyone, even American citizens, who he deems to be a threat to "national security", based on whatever secret information he deems acceptable. He also refuses to release the legal opinions/memo which sets out the legal basis for this power.

Yet everyone, Congress, the media, the public seems to be accepting this evolution without much debate.

We are way beyond Richard Nixon and his domestic break ins. What happened to Due Process?

To me, this is the real constitutional issue, not the Health Care Circus.
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