Pretty sure that goes out the window when the military possessed the powers that were not supposed to be theirs. Morsi just transferred that power to himself (the first civilian president as opposed to all of the previous military dictators in the recent past) and removed it from the military. Furthermore, it goes out the window when there is no trust of anyone who served under Mubarak's regime.
The Patriot Act was extended by Obama even though he used to criticize Bush and his administration over it. He also promised to put an end to illegal wire tapping. Oh, Obama, no you can't and won't.
Since we already addressed this, I'll just reiterate (and in many places, just paste) what I said before:
1.) Why all the defense of Obama's atrocities (even such things as drones) but not the same defense of what you perceive to be Morsi's encroachment?
2.) He is not the judge, jury, and executioner. But you're all too willing to give Obama that position because he was dealing with who you believe were enemy combatants.
3.) Anwar al Awlaki was not even charged. And why the heck was his son killed weeks later??
4.)
"the central reason the Obama Administration’s act was lawless is that in all the scenarios where the intentional killing of a U.S. citizen is permitted, there is a legal principle at work: the principle of immediacy."
In assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki, Obama left the Constitution behind - The Daily Beast
5.)
"The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice...."
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"Not only is the entire process carried out solely within the Executive branch - with no checks or oversight of any kind - but there is zero transparency and zero accountability."
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | theguardian.com
6.) They also killed Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son. How was he an enemy combatant? And before you try to defend the indefensible, even someone from Obama's administration (his senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security) suspected that Anwar al-Awlaki's son was killed intentionally.
...John Brennan, at the time President Obama’s senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security, “suspected that the kid had been killed intentionally and ordered a review. I don’t know what happened with the review.”
In other words, it sounds like some in the Administration suspect that someone within the targeting chain of command may have invented the Ibrahim al-Banna presence as a way to get at Awlaki’s son."
What “Not Specifically Targeted” Means for Abdulrahman al-Awlaki | emptywheel
7.) You can defend Obama till the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that you're willing to give Obama more power than Morsi but you're not willing to say that the former is a dictatorship (though you say the latter was).
And with that, I don't have anything more to say about this with you since you appear to be very pro-Obama regardless of what he does.
Speaking of very sectarian types, do you mean the same Shi'aa Hezbollah that ganged up with the Syrian Shi'aa Alawi/Nusayri government against the Sunni rebels?
and non-muslims ("one of them"
