mwguy

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[–] mwguy -4 points 1 year ago

Also they'll find Hamas selling aid that's suppose to be given away for free and starving people intentionally to keep it's coffers full....

[–] mwguy 2 points 1 year ago

"Implementing"

[–] mwguy 5 points 1 year ago

Probably the latter. Almost nothing that sucked today sucked less 20, 40, 60, 80 etc... years ago. They almost universally sucked more. We're just more aware.

For example, cops have always been beating black people; but that wasn't common knowledge for most until recently.

[–] mwguy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh fair enough. Hope you have a great day.

[–] mwguy 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not just for a sociopath. Anti-air is expensive (table with some options. A patriot cost like $3M/pop. If a missile was going to hit an uninhabited area choosing not to intercept makes sense.

That's why DARPA keeps working on DEWs.

[–] mwguy 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's a reasonable question to ask.

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago

There is literally no constitutional basis to suggest that the framers intended for the President to be permanently immune from legal prosecution.

That's objectively untrue. There's clearly a basis.

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cut the shit, and just say you want the president to be above the law.

The President is above the law. That's why the impeachment process exists. That's why Obama and Bush (and Trump) can't be prosecuted for spying on every single American citizen. It's why they can't be taken to court for manslaughter for the Innocents they kill extrajudicially.

Their decisions have consequences and unless they rise to the level of impeachment their immune from them. That's how the law is written, that's how it's been consistently interpreted.

[–] mwguy 1 points 1 year ago

Yes & No we killed an American and his American son in Yemen. That made the news. Technically a terrorist is a political opponent; but it not necessarily a correlation here. The "more legitimate" examples are all with varying levels of conspiracy and they tend to be old because of the way information is disseminated. But things like JFK, RFK, MLK Jr., Malcom X, MOVE bombing etc... are all examples of the Hoover Era FBI exercising that power.

And we have rendition as a well known example of extrajudicial torture and murder of US citizens that we know has been used against Innocents in the past.

[–] mwguy 1 points 1 year ago

Hopefully we can do it without revolution, they tend to be bloody.

[–] mwguy 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This problem isn't technically a Constitutional problem. It can be solved with a simple act of Congress.

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