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The Secret Warriors’ Secret Law Unveiled (Sort Of)

Posted on February 3, 2013, 11:58 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

For the moment, we already have something semi-substantive. We should have had it long ago. This is not Kafka’s Mitteleuropa. It’s our government and our information. We should not have had to wait for leakers to get our hands on it.

Tags: Al Quaeda, assassinations, Attorney General Eric Holder, Authorization of the Use of Military Force, battle-zone, Civil War, combatants, Confederate States of America, definition of war, drone killings, drone warfare, drones, due process, enemy combatants, Eric Holder, FOIA, FOIA exemptions, Frank Kafka, Freedom of Information Act, Herr K, Hostilities, Judge Colleen McMahon, Judge McMahon, killing of Americans, killing of innocents, law of war, legal memos, nation of laws not of men, non-combatants, Northwestern University, Office of Legal Counsel, OLD, police actions, proportionality, secret law, secret war, separation of powers, Southern District of New York, Taliban, The Trial
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The Case of the Missing Monuments, or None Dare Call It Treason

Posted on July 5, 2010, 10:59 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Cruising US-1 through the South (aka the Jefferson Davis Highway in places), way too much Confederate commemoration, way too fuzzy on actual history, and virtually no offsetting commemoration of slavery and its aftermath.

Tags: African American History Monument, Andrew Johnson, Brown v. Board of Education, capitols, Chapel Hill, Civil Rights Memorial, Civil War, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Cloudcuckoo Land, Columbia SC, Confederacy, Confederate States of America, Confederates, CSA, Dixie Highway, Dizzy Gillespie, federal aid highways, Federal Highway, freedom fighters, Highway 1, highway names, James Ostrowski, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Highway, Jim Crow, Key West, Mary McLeod Bethune, monumentation, monuments, monuments at state capitols, nationhood, Old Dominion State, Oliver Hill, Palmetto State, President Andrew Johnson, President Ulysses Grant, Raleigh NC, rebels, Richmond VA, slavery, Spottiswood Robinson, Stars and Bars, state capitols, Stonewall Jackson, Strom Thurmond, trail names, treason, U.S. Highway System, Ulysses Grant, Underground Railway, University of North Carolina, US-1
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Posts Tagged ‘Confederate States of America’

The Secret Warriors’ Secret Law Unveiled (Sort Of)

The Case of the Missing Monuments, or None Dare Call It Treason

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