First the good news: Our website at warisacrime.org had more visitors in 2011 than in any previous year, and more in December than any previous month.
It just might be that people are coming to understand that war is and needs to be treated as a crime.
There was lots more good and bad news in 2011. Some wars were scaled back, others expanded, and others still both started and ended. And a new movement finally finally finally began pushing back against militarism and plutocracy.
In the area of war powers, however, in questions of what future presidents, Pentagons, CIAs, mercenaries, robots, and Congresses will be permitted to do, the news has all been bad, horrendous, or catastrophic.
And it got worse on New Year's Eve.
Let me be clear:
Obama has always claimed the power to wage war on anyone anywhere, to search, seize, imprison, rendition, torture, or murder anyone. He has in fact openly murdered US citizens, among many other human beings.
Obama asked Congress to legislate the power for U.S. presidents to imprison anyone without any trial or any legal-looking process whatsoever, and to not make an exception for U.S. citizens.
Obama came close to getting what he wanted.
He got the power to imprison without trial.
Obama then engaged for the umpteenth time in an abuse as dangerous in itself as any other. He rewrote the law as he signed it. In doing so, Obama gave himself the power to imprison without even military kangaroo courts and without even the formality of pretended "status review hearings."
And the vast majority of organizations and individuals who would have raised hell and resisted this had Obama been a Republican, did not do a god damned thing about it.
Of course, for most of them, the opposition they would have exercised had Obama been a Republican, would have been shallow and phony and motivated by an immediate interest in generating negative press. Any a ctual concern over Republican presidents possessing these outrageous powers would, of course, have led to opposition to Obama seizing them, since what Obama seizes will remain for each of his successors.
Poster Comment:
Now that Organized Jewry has elected a compliant Congress and President, all it needs is arbitrary powers to eliminate anyone who would stand in the way of their using American military and other resources in Israel's interest and of course to deal with any uprising against Jew agents for their treasonous behavior. Same kind of powers their Bolshevik brethren had in the old Soviet Union. Funny how history repeats itself.