{"id":709,"date":"2006-09-22T07:47:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T12:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:08:23","slug":"elastic-clause-on-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Elastic Clause on torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently McCain, Graham and Warner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6119304\">have compromised<\/a> with the President on his effort to ignore the General Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m torn between lauding the compromise and disappointment that McCain in particular gave the President too much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having a furious email debate with my old sparring partner Vic on this subject. In the lastest exchange today Vic asked me if I would oppose &#8220;judicious&#8221; torture of Osama bin Ladin if he was sitting on a nuclear bomb that was about to kill millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>I replied as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Perhaps the Geneva Convention needs an elastic clause. If so its too bad that the US has given such a bad example of how we would make us of such flexibility.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialstudieshelp.com\/Lesson_20_Notes.htm\">&#8220;elastic clause&#8221;<\/a> is the all purpose clause in the US Constitution which Congress has always gone to to get things accomplished which are not specifically approved of or forbidden by the rest of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. &#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently McCain, Graham and Warner have compromised with the President on his effort to ignore the General Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}