Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, observed, “We elect a king for four years and give him absolute power within certain limits which, after all, he can interpret for himself”.
Our Presidents hire and fire all senior officials, secretly ban fifty thousand citizens from flying, order people kidnapped, tortured, imprisoned and assassinated and take the country to war. (No 'authoritarian' Chinese leader, even Mao at his peak, could do or has done any of those things.
Good article. Although the thrill of watching the over dominant Dems lose is always nice, the ruling is retrograde (The Catholic Church makes a good analogy) and applies to everything Biden does today, as well. It's a big win for our masters and a major political loss for the wage slaves.
"(MSNBC) a channel some Americans call “Red Army TV". Most such Americans are on TV or trolling dissident websites for the intelligence agencies. I don't hear anything like that in the streets from real human beings.
To think that the blood soaked, billionaire/intelligence led Dems are a left party is breathtakingly ignorant. However, both the Dems and Republicans have since Bernie, made a coordinated effort to present the Dems and idpol as the extreme left. It works for both Imperialist parties. It helps the Dems to convince the public that racial, gender and sexuality struggle is the quintessence of leftism (nevermind that Hitler was probably the most successful identity politician), which in turn relegates the class struggle and imperialist foreign policy to an issue of minor or secondary importance, at best. This is meant to sort of set the Overton Window of acceptable politics far to the right. This is good for Republicans because the more the public tires of the aggressive witch hunt virtue signaling of the Dems, the more they despise the Dems (fever pitch now for every sane person on the planet), the more they can blame it all on the "left" or even "the far left".
It's important to recall that Marx, Lenin indeed the red army even under Stalin never called for a racial struggle. That was the otherside, that was Hitler. In addition to promoting racial struggle, the Dems now also have spearheaded a massive public ethnic genocide, again, just like Hitler.
They told me as a kid not to listen to what people say about themselves, but watch what they do. Apply that simple logic to the Dems and it's clear we're dealing with a far right Imperialist party.
Anyone who thinks otherwise at this point is just a tool of the ruling class.
Glenn Greenwald has an interesting take on this ruling. He believes that the Supreme Court has put in writing what has already been the norm for US presidential actions that transgress the law. He gives compelling examples from Bush, Cheney, Clinton and Obama whose actions included the killing of a US citizen without due process, kidnapping and torture, indiscriminate bombing of countries which we were not at war with, and who had not attacked the US in any way. This is how it has been and now seven justices have put it in a document. Not clear what changed by their doing that.
Thank you and you are right — never forget so many recent lies in the US “Empire of Lies” as astute president Putin calls us.
• At least one million dead and permanently disfigured Slavs from two beautiful, closely related and largest Slavic nations — victims of Anglo-Saxon historical chauvinism and bipartisan War party permanent wars..
• And tens of millions dead and injured from a bioweapon virus -- designed and developed in a US lab. Yet St. Fauci and his team is not in jail – permanently protected by DNC-CIA cabal.
• Plus -- a US genocide in Gaza ! US actively sabotaged a two-state solution for decades;. In the latest and current Gaza genocide, the Nazi-dominated government monsters of Israel are just the executioners.
This ruling had to come at some point. The US Presidency has become more lawless by stages, proceeding from the murder of foreign nationals on foreign soil, to gross abuses of foreign nationals on territory under US jurisdiction, and it is only a matter of time before that extends to crimes against US citizens on US territory. So the US Supreme Court is playing catch-up, well aware that this is not just, or even primarily, for the benefit of Donald Trump. Of course the other side of government immunity is public jeopardy. "Civis americanus sum" will no longer be an adequate defence in the new American empire.
Ah, what a surprise, so the democratic government of the "civilised world" today is not so different to the Church after all! Hahahah!
How utterly pitiful to read people from the US over the ages drone on about how superbly supreme their shiny post-royalty government is.
The people of the US have been screwing the world in the name of democracy, no different to how their European predecessors and allies brutally colonised the world under the guise of Christian religion – they simply fabricate whatever the Western bourgeoisie's popular philosophy of the day is, whether it is democracy, racism, colonialism, Christianity.
That's why I am also an anarchist Ⓐ (see the works of the late anthropologist, anarchist & activist David Graeber) & anticolonialist.
Beautifully put, thank you, especially the comparison to the Church.
Doesn't matter what happens to the United States, by the way. The West is deindustrialising and dying. They have no way to make money except to coerce everyone else — in fact, they never had any other way for A VERY LONG TIME — and even now they're losing to China and Russia on the monetary side and on the battlefield. Finally the brutal rule of the global minority over the majority for the last 600 years is coming to an end. I will join in and do my part to bring that about, and I will sure as hell laugh at the Westerners every chance that I get.
Don't say to me that the people of the West have nothing to do with what the secret state does. You see, for example, the U.S. pillages Iraq. BP goes in and occupies oil fields. The people of the West fuel their cars with petrol from BP for their sweet weekend getaways, while the children of Iraq deal with leukaemia. You understand now?
The President, according to this incoherent fascist decision, could indeed order the military to kill an American citizen, and he would be totally immune from domestic criminal prosecution forever (because being command-in-chief of the military is a "core" presidential function).
But the president has already done so -- Obama and his drone-assassination program. So, this decision converts de facto into de jure immunity.
Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, observed, “We elect a king for four years and give him absolute power within certain limits which, after all, he can interpret for himself”.
Our Presidents hire and fire all senior officials, secretly ban fifty thousand citizens from flying, order people kidnapped, tortured, imprisoned and assassinated and take the country to war. (No 'authoritarian' Chinese leader, even Mao at his peak, could do or has done any of those things.
Good article. Although the thrill of watching the over dominant Dems lose is always nice, the ruling is retrograde (The Catholic Church makes a good analogy) and applies to everything Biden does today, as well. It's a big win for our masters and a major political loss for the wage slaves.
"(MSNBC) a channel some Americans call “Red Army TV". Most such Americans are on TV or trolling dissident websites for the intelligence agencies. I don't hear anything like that in the streets from real human beings.
To think that the blood soaked, billionaire/intelligence led Dems are a left party is breathtakingly ignorant. However, both the Dems and Republicans have since Bernie, made a coordinated effort to present the Dems and idpol as the extreme left. It works for both Imperialist parties. It helps the Dems to convince the public that racial, gender and sexuality struggle is the quintessence of leftism (nevermind that Hitler was probably the most successful identity politician), which in turn relegates the class struggle and imperialist foreign policy to an issue of minor or secondary importance, at best. This is meant to sort of set the Overton Window of acceptable politics far to the right. This is good for Republicans because the more the public tires of the aggressive witch hunt virtue signaling of the Dems, the more they despise the Dems (fever pitch now for every sane person on the planet), the more they can blame it all on the "left" or even "the far left".
It's important to recall that Marx, Lenin indeed the red army even under Stalin never called for a racial struggle. That was the otherside, that was Hitler. In addition to promoting racial struggle, the Dems now also have spearheaded a massive public ethnic genocide, again, just like Hitler.
They told me as a kid not to listen to what people say about themselves, but watch what they do. Apply that simple logic to the Dems and it's clear we're dealing with a far right Imperialist party.
Anyone who thinks otherwise at this point is just a tool of the ruling class.
Glenn Greenwald has an interesting take on this ruling. He believes that the Supreme Court has put in writing what has already been the norm for US presidential actions that transgress the law. He gives compelling examples from Bush, Cheney, Clinton and Obama whose actions included the killing of a US citizen without due process, kidnapping and torture, indiscriminate bombing of countries which we were not at war with, and who had not attacked the US in any way. This is how it has been and now seven justices have put it in a document. Not clear what changed by their doing that.
Thank you and you are right — never forget so many recent lies in the US “Empire of Lies” as astute president Putin calls us.
• At least one million dead and permanently disfigured Slavs from two beautiful, closely related and largest Slavic nations — victims of Anglo-Saxon historical chauvinism and bipartisan War party permanent wars..
• And tens of millions dead and injured from a bioweapon virus -- designed and developed in a US lab. Yet St. Fauci and his team is not in jail – permanently protected by DNC-CIA cabal.
• Plus -- a US genocide in Gaza ! US actively sabotaged a two-state solution for decades;. In the latest and current Gaza genocide, the Nazi-dominated government monsters of Israel are just the executioners.
This ruling had to come at some point. The US Presidency has become more lawless by stages, proceeding from the murder of foreign nationals on foreign soil, to gross abuses of foreign nationals on territory under US jurisdiction, and it is only a matter of time before that extends to crimes against US citizens on US territory. So the US Supreme Court is playing catch-up, well aware that this is not just, or even primarily, for the benefit of Donald Trump. Of course the other side of government immunity is public jeopardy. "Civis americanus sum" will no longer be an adequate defence in the new American empire.
Great essay!
Ah, what a surprise, so the democratic government of the "civilised world" today is not so different to the Church after all! Hahahah!
How utterly pitiful to read people from the US over the ages drone on about how superbly supreme their shiny post-royalty government is.
The people of the US have been screwing the world in the name of democracy, no different to how their European predecessors and allies brutally colonised the world under the guise of Christian religion – they simply fabricate whatever the Western bourgeoisie's popular philosophy of the day is, whether it is democracy, racism, colonialism, Christianity.
That's why I am also an anarchist Ⓐ (see the works of the late anthropologist, anarchist & activist David Graeber) & anticolonialist.
Beautifully put, thank you, especially the comparison to the Church.
Doesn't matter what happens to the United States, by the way. The West is deindustrialising and dying. They have no way to make money except to coerce everyone else — in fact, they never had any other way for A VERY LONG TIME — and even now they're losing to China and Russia on the monetary side and on the battlefield. Finally the brutal rule of the global minority over the majority for the last 600 years is coming to an end. I will join in and do my part to bring that about, and I will sure as hell laugh at the Westerners every chance that I get.
Don't say to me that the people of the West have nothing to do with what the secret state does. You see, for example, the U.S. pillages Iraq. BP goes in and occupies oil fields. The people of the West fuel their cars with petrol from BP for their sweet weekend getaways, while the children of Iraq deal with leukaemia. You understand now?
The President, according to this incoherent fascist decision, could indeed order the military to kill an American citizen, and he would be totally immune from domestic criminal prosecution forever (because being command-in-chief of the military is a "core" presidential function).
But the president has already done so -- Obama and his drone-assassination program. So, this decision converts de facto into de jure immunity.