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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 09:31 PM
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Cheney wanted to use GIs in Buffalo to test the constitution.
Edited on Fri Jul-24-09 09:32 PM by Hieronymus
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25detain.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: July 24, 2009
WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.

Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including Vice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the power to use the military on domestic soil to sweep up the terrorism suspects, who came to be known as the Lackawanna Six, and declare them enemy combatants.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 09:46 PM
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1. Pure evil.
Make no mistake about it.

These people want to destroy our country and install a dictatorship.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 09:59 PM
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2. Cheney needs to be euthanized.
Seriously. I don't think there had been a more dangerous man on the planet during my lifetime, only because I was born after the Hitler reign of terror.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 10:22 PM
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4. I prefer the term "Execution by lethal injection"...
after he's convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death in a court of law, Agent Mike...
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 10:24 PM
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5. A lot of the same types tried it before.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

The Business Plot (also the Plot Against FDR and the White House Putsch) was a reported political conspiracy in 1933 which involved wealthy businessmen plotting a coup d’état to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934 retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testified to the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional committee that a group of men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a coup.<1> In the opinion of the committee these allegations were credible. One of the purported plotters, Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their report, the Congressional committee stated that it was able to confirm Butler's statements other than the proposal from MacGuire which it considered more or less confirmed by MacGuire's European reports. <2> However, no prosecutions or further investigations followed. Historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed.<3><4><5><6><7> Contemporary media initially dismissed the plot, with a The New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax;"<8> When the committee's final report was released the Times said the committee "purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true" and "It also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated".<9>
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-24-09 10:16 PM
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3. Why Didn't They Do It
I'm having a glitchy time getting the full article
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