On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
My reading is the opposite. That's why there's an "or" instead of an "and" there. --Declan
"Enemies" are discussed in juxtaposition to "levying War against [the United States]". This implies that "Enemies" of the United States are those with whom the U.S. is at war.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "unconstitutionally vague"? If "enemies" are something other than parties with whom the U.S. is at war, then who are they?
Shrubya said "You're either with us, or against us." Asscruft has been using this as his definition of who is against Amerika: anyone not supporting our boys and flying an American flag is one of Them. "We gonna open a can of Texas whoop-ass on them bad boys," as our illiterate Maximum Leader puts it. Since there has been no declaration of war, and since Congress is busy distracting itself with important debates about the renewal of the bovine ear oil depletion allowance--anything to avoid taking a legal stand on the constitutionality of preemptive war--this will have to do as the best definition we will have of what an "enemy" is. --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"