Nation of Laws. Manning. Obama. What now?

This is a damning paragraph,and reminder that there are forces in play that are not apparent, but are controlling.  

But even more fascinating is Obama’s invocation of America’s status as a “nation of laws” to justify why Manning must be punished. That would be a very moving homage to the sanctity of the rule of law — if not for the fact that the person invoking it is the same one who has repeatedly engaged in the most extraordinary efforts to shield Bush officials from judicial scrutiny, investigation, and prosecution of every kind for their war crimes and surveillance felonies. Indeed, the Orwellian platitude used by Obama to justify that immunity — Look Forward, Not Backward — is one of the greatest expressions of presidential lawlessness since Richard Nixon told David Frost that “it’s not illegal if the President does it.”  -Glen Grenwald

We are a nation governed by laws. But we are also governed by something deeper when those same laws implicate certain people.

What Manning did in releasing those docs, if that is what is finally settled to be the case, is minor…. Minor… Compared to what Bush and his company unleashed on the nation, and the world.   And not just a tick of bad judgement as they are attempting to re-write the history now.  But considered, intentional, lying and breaking of the laws.  Repeatedly and shamelessly.

And

Without consequence.

On Obama Justice

There are a number of troubling decisions coming out of the Obama Justice Department. Just to list a few:
> The verve with which wikileaks and Assange and Manning are being pursued.
> the prosecution, and now conviction, of the fellow who broke up the illegal BLM sales in the waning hours of the Bush admin.

There are others. There seems to be a pattern emerging. Very disturbing. Seems to violate the standard of justice and constitutional grounding that was the promise of Obama’s history and principles.