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| 2004-06-23 |
| HT Chicago (Hard) Boyz This seems like a great idea, even after 2 1/2 years even if Congress didn’t pass it. snip SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF PRESIDENT. (a) The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in his judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001, and for any planned future air piratical aggressions and depredations or other acts of war upon the United States of America and her people. (b) The President of the United States is authorized to place a money bounty, drawn in his discretion from the $40,000,000,000 appropriated on September 14, 2001, in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorists Attacks on the United States or from private sources, for the capture, alive or dead, of Osama bin Laden or any other al Qaeda conspirator responsible for the act of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, under the authority of any letter of marque or reprisal issued under this Act. (c) No letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued by the President without requiring the posting of a security bond in such amount as the President shall determine is sufficient to ensure that the letter be executed according to the terms and conditions thereof. |
| Posted by:Mr. Davis |
| #13 I think this is bogus. I checked Thomas for the Bill and the number associated with the Yale Law School site is not the same one according to Thomas[official gov't site]: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:1:./temp/~c108B2FYkG:: Graduate Opportunities in Higher Education Act of 2003 (Introduced in House) 108th Congress HR 3076 IH Here's the link to the HR 3076 IH bill listed on the Yale Law School Avalon Project site: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/sept_11/hr3076_ih.htm September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 (Introduced in the House) HR 3076 IH 107th Congress |
| Posted by: rex 2004-06-24 12:06:31 AM |
| #12 Site's there. Oh, maybe it wants an http? It seems to be going to rantburg/site-essential.com. Much as I'd love to be part of Rantburg, I ain't! |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2004-06-23 8:55:55 PM |
| #11 Kathy, Your site link did not work. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-06-23 8:51:55 PM |
| #10 Well, there's not a large pool of dotty isolationist Libertarian congressmen to choose from, now, is there? |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-06-23 8:51:19 PM |
| #9 Without looking, I'll guess Ron Paul |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2004-06-23 8:49:38 PM |
| #8 i suggest y'all check out which dotty, isolationist Libertarian congressman is pushing this. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-06-23 1:38:29 PM |
| #7 i suggest y'all check out which dotty, isolationist Libertarian congressman is pushing this. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-06-23 1:38:27 PM |
| #6 Hell, between dot com and Lucky I'll never even make it to AA snark. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-23 1:34:54 PM |
| #5 Pirates ya say, cut-throats by culture the target of Mandrake Industries. A tactic at most! But it's that culture thing that needs to be addressed. But then again, in a targeting sort of way, it would put fear into certain teachers of the culture of cut-throat. I like it, fits in well with Olspooks, "without remorse" dictum. "He walks in the classroom, cool and slow, he's the one calling teacher Daddy-oh." |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-06-23 12:18:52 PM |
| #4 This is just what the doctor ordered! Mercs can hunt them down here or there. Great idea whomever thought of it! Maybe we should offer a bounty on each Al Queda severed head they bring in? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-06-23 11:59:03 AM |
| #3 LOL PD! You've been reading too much late nite Lucky. (has should we all) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-23 11:47:56 AM |
| #2 You're so colorful! And so deep. Colorfully deep. Deeply colorful. Color me impressed. Deeply impressed. Please, Master smnnnnnn, tell us more! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-23 1:43:39 AM |
| #1 Wonderful Idea...American Bounty Hunters, Mercenaries, Death Squads, Head Hunters; the likes of which even George Washington himself would 'thumbs up' in the saving of the nation's security!! Would give even the Vikings the chills! |
| Posted by: smn 2004-06-23 1:37:10 AM |