In an interview with Ralph Nader on C-SPAN’s Book TV to promote his book Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew Napolitano said that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should have been indicted for “torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant.”
The judge believes that it is a fallacy to say that the US treats suspects as innocent until proven guilty. “The government acts as if a defendant is guilty merely on the basis of an accusation,” said Napolitano.
Nader was curious about how this applied to the Bush administration. “What about the more serious violations of habeas corpus,” wondered Nader. “You know after 9/11 Bush rounded up thousands of them, Americans, many of them Muslim Americans or Arabic Americans and they were thrown in jail without charges. They didn’t have lawyers. Some of them were pretty mistreated in New York City. You know they were all released eventually.”
“Well that is so obviously a violation of the natural law, the natural right to be brought before a neutral arbiter within moments of the government taking your freedom away from you,” answered Napolitano.
Hey, there’s still plenty of time…well maybe not for Dick.
#20 If you’d like to go back into ancient history, then Daddy Bush and Ron Reagan should take root responsibility.
Al qaeda formed against the US when Reagan decided to occupy the holy land of Saudi Arabia in order to subsidize the true cost of oil with US military protection.
Instead Reagan’s CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union giving rise of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. I believe Daddy Bush was merely guilty of giving King Fahd blow jobs which really pissed off Osama cuz it’s just wrong.
It will be interesting to watch the US if it is ever involved in a land war where invaders attack the US. Especially, given the invaders immediately acquire US citizens rights on their arrival. I guess we just roll over and die…
Note to China for future use…
Wow many of you didn’t even listen 5 minutes into the article where he follows up on questions about why Obama is doing MORE things wrong than Bush & Cheney is being blamed for.
Andrew Napolitano, John Stossel, and Glenn Beck are all employees of Fox and all are publicly Libertarian.
Someone just got fired from the Fox Propaganda Network.
# 14 Jason75:
“So you believe that it is possible to catch the worst filth in this world by doing things by the book?”
Yes.
Why even bother to fight “the worst filth in this world” if it means becoming just the _other_ “worst filth in this world”? Might as well just throw in with them and divvy it all up.
If they want to destroy this country, why should we do the job for them?
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# 15 Awake:
“… Under Bush’s leadership, we made an ultra-right turn and were marched right into the very life that the whole cold war fought against: secret detention camps, uncontrolled wiretapping, torture as defined by our own historical standards. …”
It never occurred to me during the Cold War that I’d ever say or even think this: sometimes I miss the Soviet Union. We used to have to at least _try_ to be better than the Red Menace. Now, apparently, not so much…
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# 22 Brock:
“It will be interesting to watch the US if it is ever involved in a land war where invaders attack the US. …”
Huh! Have you _seen_ what kinds of guns people have?