Friday, December 3, 2010

Three Senators Introduce Bill To Allow Prosecuting Wikileaks After The Fact

TPM from the Wikileaks wire:


Lieberman, Ensign, Brown Intro Legislation To Go After Wikileaks
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The three senators want to make publishing certain names illegal after the fact so they can prosecute Wikileaks. ...
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Considering all the unpleasant facts Assange's Wikileaks has exposed, I suppose that's known as an (ahem) "exposed fact-o" law...

Seriously: such a law would be unconstitutional as hell. It violates Art. I Sec. 9: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." And that is precisely what these three senators are attempting to do: make something a crime after the fact, or perhaps simply declare Assange a criminal. How low we have sunk!

3 comments:

  1. "It violates Art. I Sec. 9: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." Yep! But when they nullified Habeas Corpus all justice was off the table.

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  2. Lieberman violates his oath of office as casually as the average person eats breakfast or gets dressed for work.

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  3. Welcome, libhom... I like what I saw of your blog.

    "Lieberman violates..." ... ain't that the damned truth. He is the essence of the wholly owned member of Congress, and his sort is the reason I don't think the U.S. will survive the current internal conflict. The GOP has sold out; the Dems seem somewhere between timid and incompetent, and Lieberman... well, Lieberman combines the worst of both major parties. Fuck him, and I'm not offering to do the job.

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