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Glenn Beck: OBAMA's ASSASSINATION LIST?
Glenn Beck Radio Program ^ | July 19, 2010 - 13:37 ET | Glenn Beck and John Brennan

Posted on 07/19/2010 11:04:49 PM PDT by Yosemitest



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 4kooks; assassinate; murderbydnc; murderbyobama; nodueprocess; nojustice; obama; uscitizen
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1 posted on 07/19/2010 11:04:51 PM PDT by Yosemitest
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To: Yosemitest

Properly viewed, these are Americans who have allied themselves with a foreign power (al-Qaeda) with whom we are in a state of war.

The problem is that Obama and the left are unwilling to admit we are in a state of war, and consider these people as merely criminals, rather than enemy combatants making war on us.

It is troubling that Obama both views these US citizens as mere criminals but yet believes he has the power to assassinate mere criminal US citizens without due process.


2 posted on 07/19/2010 11:22:13 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

One would have to be blind deaf and stupid not to see what is going on. November is Americas last stand.


3 posted on 07/19/2010 11:29:05 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: Yosemitest
How many Americans are targeted for assassination? (Salon: should Obama have a license to kill?)
4 posted on 07/19/2010 11:33:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Yosemitest
PRESIDENT OBAMA: If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

Should be replayed on every single rooftop in America.

5 posted on 07/19/2010 11:35:54 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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To: Gene Eric

Yes, I responded to that thread at post #11 and post #13.


6 posted on 07/19/2010 11:38:17 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: wastedyears
But targeting the Taxed Enough Already Party, "without benefit of an attorney or due process,"



7 posted on 07/19/2010 11:44:26 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Yosemitest

The problem is that any list of Americans Obama might want to assassinate don’t have names like Ahmed or Mohammad. They have names Rush or Newt or Sarah...


8 posted on 07/20/2010 12:08:57 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: screaminsunshine
One would have to be blind deaf and stupid not to see what is going on. November is Americas last stand. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is true, at least the last peaceful stand. If the ballot box does not impede the rise of fascism in America, then it must needs be done by the people. And that will not be without tremedous cost in life and treasure.But do it we will if necessary.

Few even know what Obama and his Junta truly are:

Obama is a NATIONALIST

( black power /ethnic minority nation dedicated to seizing power on behalf of the racial and ethnic minorities of America based on the idea that America's greatness is fatally flawed because it owes its success to the colonial exploitation of black /ethnic minorities , and historic justice is required as a remedy, pretty much the same as Adolf Hitler's ideology for the German people prior to WWII which dictated historic justice for Germany. This has been candied up and sold to the American people, who have bought it, lock, stock and barrel, and the MSM hides it's dirty underside..)

OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST:

The economic aspect of racial historic justice requires a redistribution of wealth through subverting the present government system from within and using taxation, double dealings with Unions and industry, black mailing of traditional allies like Britain and Israel, and the abuse of other executive powers to redistribute wealth to racial and ethnic minorities rather than provide government services to ALL of the people). Obama plans to do this internationally, and he therefore abjures diplomacy with Britain ( colonial power) and others who were so called exploiters of the "black man."

Obama is a Nationalist Socialist, THATS RIGHT, A FASCIST.

His method of fascism is born of the Chicago thug school. HE IS NOT A COMMUNIST.This is important to know, for Obama cannot be defeated if we think he is a mere communist. His idea of black elitists who are racially and biologically superior to the white man in every way, a hatred of America ,goes much deeper than that of a mere communist.This is revealed by his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Obamas conduct in office on racial and ethnic issues such as the New Black Panther party prosecution, and his refusal to secure our Southern Border, and his conflict with Arizonas illegal alien enforcement.GET IT RIGHT, OBMAMA IS MUCH WORSE THAN A COMMUNIST!

I find it disconcerting that people do not examine what Obama's politics are,because that means we cannot defeat him because we cannot define him. THINK ON IT!. Obama is a fascist, a thug, a man who has no love for America and seeks to willfully destroy her if she does not do his bidding to become his twisted Utopia. He is not a Communist.Get it right. Our survival as a nation depends on it.

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May 12, 2009 Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist

By Kyle-Anne Shiver

“They fear that the development and building of People’s (community) Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will seize leadership and control and turn an organization into a Frankenstein’s monster against democracy.” - Saul Alinsky responding to his critics, Reveille for Radicals; p. 199

When Saul Alinsky began building his community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe. It wasn’t hard then to see in Alinsky’s programs at home, elements of the people’s revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same “in your face” tactics being employed by Hitler’s Brownshirts.

What Alinsky’s critics saw was the burgeoning of a national movement, the carefully manipulated construction of people’s organizations, which all had two elements in common: (1) a collectivist creed, which denied the existence of personal responsibility; and (2) an amoral dogma, in which all means were justified by an imaginary utopian end.

While most modern Americans remember well Hitler’s Holocaust and the Cold War waged by a solid U.S.S.R., many of these same Americans have swallowed some false history regarding the movements that spawned such widespread, horrendous results. In what may be regarded as the most triumphant propaganda victory of our time, fascism has been scrubbed of all its Marxist roots, while communism has been scrubbed of its millions of callous murders.

This post-WWII propaganda coup undeniably set the stage for the early Alinsky critics’ most feared eventuality, that the massive organizations could be shrewdly adopted by a fascist demagogue, someone who could “seize leadership and control” and turn them into a “Frankenstein’s monster against democracy.”

But perhaps the most cunning propaganda feat in history has been undertaken for the past 8 years. As Jonah Goldberg expertly expounds in his book, Liberal Fascism, American left-wing ideologues have managed to dissociate themselves from all the horrors of fascism with a “brilliant rhetorical maneuver.” They’ve done it by “claiming that their opponents are the fascists.”

Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:

“...in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University...students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations - a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative - and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”

In what may eventually prove to be a devious rhetorical feat of monstrous proportions, while the left has been indulging and fostering the “Bush Is Hitler” meme, they may have just put a genuine ideological fascist heir in the White House.

There is inherent danger in making scurrilous comparisons (as were perpetrated unceasingly against George W. Bush), but there seem to be some very worrisome signs in the rise of Barack Obama that we Americans would be foolish to ignore.

Obama, the Closer

As I put forth last year in “Obama, the Closer”, Barack Obama, did not start his movement; Alinsky did.

Nor did Obama amass the organizations that propelled him. As detailed by Heidi J. Swarts, in her book, Organizing Urban America, the movement begun by Saul Alinsky in the 1930s has morphed into thousands of secular and faith-based leftist political organizations. ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has perhaps the highest public profile, is most reputed for radicalism, and is the organization with which Barack Obama was first aligned. But ACORN is the mere tip of a veritable iceberg of Alinsky-styled community organizations that sweep across the entire United States and make up the backbone of faith-based progressive movements as well.

These euphemistically called “community” organizations have next to nothing to do with improving the communities and everything to do with politics, primarily strong-arming government money to advance their political aims. Prior to Reagan’s election, these groups worked independently for the most part, each seeking to effect local change towards leftist ends.

But with Reagan’s victory, ACORN founding member Wade Rathke sent out a memo (published by Swarts; Organizing Urban America; p. 29) that would reverberate all the way to Barack Obama’s moment. ACORN had been behaving as a sort of “Lone Ranger of the Left” for too long, wrote Rathke. Ronald Reagan had formed a coalition among the middle-class that threatened to bring greater prosperity without left-wing Statists calling the shots. Rathke put out the call to the ACORN troops to stop antagonizing those who would be allies, especially unions and church organizations, once shunned by ACORN as too placid for the real fight for power. For the next 25 years, the community organization network built, proliferated and formed a solid, nation-wide base of political strength, purely according to Alinsky’s original vision, and all just waiting for the right candidate to tap into it and lead it.

When folks from all corners of America proclaimed, seemingly with one voice, Barack is the “One we’ve been waiting for,” they were speaking out of the vast Alinsky-originated network.

Neither did Barack Obama invent the political “ideology of change,” nor design its carefully crafted propaganda. While media folks talked of the tingles up their legs and the brilliant rhetoric of Barack Obama, they were heralding the speaker only, not the creator of the movement and its slogans. That would have been Saul Alinsky, the man who took fascism and cunningly made it appear to casual observers every bit as American as apple pie.

Barack Obama is merely the movement’s closer, the quintessential liberal fascist with a teleprompter.

Alinsky’s Ideology of Change: The Third Way

Goldberg fastidiously notes the comparison between Alinsky’s “in your face” rules for radicals, studied and perfected by Barack Obama, and shows them to have profoundly fascist roots:

“...there’s no disputing that vast swaths of his (Alinsky’s) writings are indistinguishable from the fascist rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s...His worldview is distinctly fascistic. Life is defined by war, contests of power, the imposition of will. Moreover, Alinsky shares with the fascists and pragmatists of yore a bedrock hostility to dogma. All he believes in are the desired ends of the movement, which he regards as the source of life’s meaning...But what comes through most is his unbridled love of power. Power is a good in its own right for Alinsky. Ours ‘is a world not of angels but of angles,’ he proclaims in Rules for Radicals, ‘where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles.”

Saul Alinsky was the man who transformed politics in America into all-out war mode. Alinsky’s tenth rule of the ethics of means: “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.” All’s fair in love and war, and politics, to Alinsky, was war.

“A People’s (community) Organization is not a philanthropic plaything or a social service’s ameliorative gesture. It is a deep, hard-driving force, striking and cutting at the very roots of all the evils which beset the people. It thinks and acts in terms of social surgery and not cosmetic cover-ups.

A People’s Organization is dedicated to an eternal war

. A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play.” Saul Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals; p. 133

Alinsky includes an entire section in Rules for Radicals on “The Ideology of Change.” The watchword of the Obama campaign was “change.” Just as Hitler mobilized the masses with a calculatingly undefined demand for “change,” so did Alinsky disciple, Barack Obama.

“Everything must be different!” or “Alles muss anders sein!,” Hitler’s own campaign slogan, morphed into “Unite for Change,” and the Obama transition team’s change.gov. Even the idea of a vast “movement” was borrowed from Hitler. As Goldberg states, Hitler used the phrase, “the Movement,” more than 200 times in Mein Kampf.

The word ‘movement’ itself is instructive. Movement, unlike progress, doesn’t imply a fixed destination. Rather, it takes it as a given that any change is better.

(Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 176) Perhaps the most intoxicating allure to the fascist demagogue and his movement for undefined change is its misleadingly conciliatory flavor. Barack Obama continually, throughout his campaign and even now, portrays himself as the Third Way between the cantankerous factions that have polarized America for the past 80 years, since liberal fascism took root as the Progressive Movement.

Obama claimed that Bush was too much the ideologue, that his policies were driven by the Christian right, involved “false choices” between all-out war on the one hand and diplomacy on the other, between the welfare state and cold-hearted, do-nothing conservatism, between absolute sovereignty and cowardly submission to the global community, between doing all and doing nothing. And if any of this gibberish were a true reflection of our political disagreements, Obama would be somewhat correct. But as any sentient person knows, this radical presentation of Obama’s is absolutely false. That gets lost, though, in the leader’s conciliatory tone.

What must not get lost, however, is the very real fact that this Third Way movement for change is as fascist as anything we have ever seen in the USA. As Alinsky described his own “Ideology of Change,” the lure is in the claim that the leader has no ideology that would confine his outlook to hard choices between what is moral or immoral, that there are no boundaries set by either religion or politics, that everything can change and the only thing that matters is one’s end intention to do something good.

As Hitler, before Alinsky, proclaimed, “Our program is to govern,” not delve into theory and dogma. This is in itself very appealing, especially to an electorate sick of the contentiousness of the past decade. This undefined “ideology of change” for the sake of change, for some action that will break through the roadblocks of polarization, has tremendous allure.

But Goldberg bursts that bubble:

The ‘middle way’ sounds moderate and un-radical. Its appeal is that it sounds unideological and freethinking. But philosophically the Third Way is not mere difference splitting; it is utopian and authoritarian. Its utopian aspect becomes manifest in its antagonism to the idea that politics is about trade-offs. The Third Wayer says that there are no false choices -‘I refuse to accept that X should come at the expense of Y.’ The Third Way holds that we can have capitalism and socialism, individual liberty and absolute unity. Fascist movements are implicitly utopian because they - like communist and heretical Christian movements — assume that with just the right arrangement of policies, all contradictions can be rectified. (Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 130)

Of course, thinking people — when they are indeed thinking — know this is an utterly false promise. Life will never be made perfect because all human beings are imperfect.

Unity, the Diabolical Lure

What of this longed-for unity then? Barack Obama proclaimed he was leading a movement of people “united for change.” What is the appeal of unity?

The modern liberal fascist seeks that state between mother and child which exists early on before the child seeks his own independence, before mother must set herself at odds with him. It is the perfectly secure state of childhood where all is lovely and peaceful and nurturing, but cannot continue indefinitely if the child is to be prepared to face a world of difficulty and hard choices. Nevertheless, the yearning continues. It is this primordial yearning which sets itself in the crosshairs of the fascist demagogue.

But in adult life, this type of unity is anything but desirable, anything but virtuous. As Goldberg states, however, “elevation of unity as the highest social value is a core tenet of fascism and all leftist ideologies.”

The allure of this mystical unity is so great that its demand to sacrifice reason and thought on the false altar of infantile security is seemingly lost to many. But as Goldberg also reminds us, “unity is, at best, morally neutral and often a source of irrationality and groupthink.”

Rampaging mobs are unified. The Mafia is unified. Marauding barbarians bent on rape and pillage are unified. Meanwhile, civilized people have disagreements, and small-d democrats have arguments. Classical liberalism is based on this fundamental insight, which is why fascism was always anti-liberal.

Liberalism rejected the idea that unity is more valuable than individuality. For fascists and other leftists, meaning and authenticity are found in collective enterprises - of class, nation, or race - and the state is there to enforce that meaning on everyone without the hindrance of debate. (Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 172)

Just as the healthy relationship between parent and developing child demands friction, so does the healthy relationship between truly liberal citizens. Unity is the siren song of tyranny, not the call to genuine progress.

Fascism: The Two Birds with One Stone Approach

I think of Obama’s liberal fascism as a cancer that attempts to kill the two birds of American exceptionalism with one stone. It is a deviously appealing Third Way that in the end, if allowed to triumph completely, kills both individual liberty and Judeo/Christian religion with its single stone.

And, indeed this was the precise goal of Adolph Hitler. Unlike the outspoken hatred of private property and religion espoused by communists under Lenin and Stalin, Hitler preferred the more moderate-seeming incremental takeover of private enterprise in the interest of the “common good,” and the slow-death of Judeo/Christian religion by chipping away at it and replacing the people’s dependence upon God gradually with reliance on the state (Hitler).

[Note: Hitler’s Holocaust was based on the Progressive Eugenics principles set forth by Social Darwinist scientists and social engineers of the 1920s, widely accepted both in Europe and in the United States. Religion was not at the core of the Holocaust; race was. However, Hitler’s other chief aim was to destroy the Judeo/Christian religions, which he believed had ruined the Germanic race’s world predominance.]

Of course, as the German people were duped into giving Hitler totalitarian powers to work his magic “change,” he took off the kid gloves and accelerated the program.

In the end, however slow the process, however seemingly benign the growth of the state may seem, liberal fascism has the same result of all tyrannies before it: hell on earth for most and a self-indulgent feast for the Statists in power.

As Barack Obama speaks, thinking Americans ought to hear the echoes of past fascist demagogues and remember. Remember.

When Barack Obama promises “collective redemption” through his profligate spending programs and vast overtures to a new world order built on love for our fellow man, we ought to shudder not swoon.

We ought to remember that healthy global relationships are built upon respect, not all-encompassing love, and that redemption for one’s soul is a commodity the state is not empowered to offer.

As Pope Benedict XVI has so presciently warned:

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.

Be not fooled, America. The movement, which appears most benign is instead the most malignant growth ever seen on our soil. It’s a cancer that will kill, and however slowly it grows or however nice it may look on the surface, doesn’t change a thing.

Kyle-Anne Shiver is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. She welcomes your comments at kyleanneshiver@gmail.com.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

9 posted on 07/20/2010 12:10:37 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
Here's some more sources:


10 posted on 07/20/2010 12:14:04 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: melancholy

Remember when I told you that there some people could be killed before this administration leaves?


11 posted on 07/20/2010 12:19:00 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Michelle Obama: the woman who ended "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.")
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To: OrangeHoof
May I recommend you read "Term Limits" by Vince Flynn?

Watch this, Glenn Beck talking to Vince Flynn about "Term Limits"


12 posted on 07/20/2010 12:35:07 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Yosemitest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBGBszZ2Qw0 http://www.wor710.com/pages/6350883 


http://www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-interview-was-obama-a-committed-marxist-in-college/ 


http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/13/marxist-obama-why-the-media-has-been-silent/ 


http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2010/04/barack-obama-argued-strict.html 


The full interview is devastating.



Too bad Fox News ignored Dr Drew in 2008 when he contacted them. 
We now know the full details of Barry’s Occidental years.


He was an avowed and committed Marxist.


He looked forward to the revolution when the Marxists would overthrow our government.


His love for Marxism was unusually strong .


He was in passionate agreement with the most radical Marxist Leninist professors.


His favorite professor was Roger Boesche , a socialist.


Boesche visited Barry at the White House this year , they remain friends .


Barry took Political Theory at Occidental-so, we know one course that he took.


Barry took up with Hasan Chandoo, a wealthy foreign exchange student from Karachi, Pakistan.

Chandoo financed Barry’s lifestyle, which was apparently very lavish; BMW and a very big house:

Lived together, not in a dorm!!!


Chandoo was Barry’s Sugar Daddy.


When Dr. John Drew first met Chandoo and Barry, he thought they were both wealthy gays.



Chandoo was at the White House for the Ramadan dinner this year.!!!


Chandoo did not go to New York with Barry and Sohale Siddiqi

( another foreign exchange student from Pakistan ) !!!

... so Barry’s lifestyle suffered.


Barry described Sohale in Dreams as “ well built .”

The picture of the two of them is here :
http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt231/mojitojoe1/BOluvs%20his%20boys/obamaandroommate-480-1.jpg


They look like two poor and skinny gay men.


Barry did not hang out with blacks , mostly the white radicals and his Muslim buddies.


Dr Drew is willing to take a lie detector test .


His information about Barry’s radical past is extremely detailed. He wants his own army: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

13 posted on 07/20/2010 12:46:06 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!


14 posted on 07/20/2010 12:49:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Michelle Obama: the woman who ended "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.")
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To: Yosemitest

Is this the same SOB iMam that trained the the panty bomber

at Christmas???

If it is I’d bust a cap in his ass on sight...


15 posted on 07/20/2010 12:53:23 AM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
You're missing the focus.

Take a closer look at just who Obama is calling "his enemies."


16 posted on 07/20/2010 1:32:15 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: OrangeHoof

“The problem is that any list of Americans Obama might want to assassinate don’t have names like Ahmed or Mohammad. They have names Rush or Newt or Sarah...”

Correct.

DHS has already told us who they consider worthy of Scrutiny as a possible Terrorist.

Returning Veterans, Home Schoolers, Christians, Constitutionalists, Limited Government Believers, TEA Party participants and anyone that opposes Obama’s policies.


17 posted on 07/20/2010 1:52:15 AM PDT by SwedeBoy2
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To: SwedeBoy2
Never forget ...


Here's the mind of Fascist Obama, from another poster LomanBill.



So you see, FASCIST Obama is currently on stage III of their plan "bring the country to the verge of crisis".

Don't you see it?

Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who wrote

And then again when he wrote


18 posted on 07/20/2010 2:05:26 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Yosemitest

Mr. Burn them alive at WACO:
“We are expanding the assassinations to other subhumans.
You know. Whites. Jews. Republicans. Whistleblowers.
They, and their cracker babies, are simply not entitled to due process.”


19 posted on 07/20/2010 2:42:47 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Gene Eric
From the article in your link:

So back then, Obama said the President lacks the power merely to detain U.S. citizens without charges; indeed, when asked if "the Constitution permit[s]" that, he responded: "no." Yet now, as President, he claims the power to assassinate them without charges. Could even his hardest-core loyalists try to reconcile that with a straight face? As Spencer Ackerman documented in April, not even John Yoo claimed that the President possessed the power Obama is claiming here. Given Brennan's strong suggestion that there are not merely three but "dozens" of Americans who are being targeted or at least could be ("they also will face the full brunt of a U.S. response") -- and given the huge number of times the Government has falsely accused individuals of Terrorism and its demonstrated willingness to imprison knowingly innocent detainees -- is it time yet to have a debate about whether we think the President should be able to exercise a power like this?

How can this pass any kind of Constitutional muster? Where is the president given the authority to assassinate American citizens, with or without due process, but most especially without? Forgive my needing something spelled out more clearly, I am not military, what I know is from years of reading, discussing things with family who were military. Both of my good resources have passed away, so I cannot ask them -- killing the enemy on the battlefield is not assassination. Eliminating those who have done us harm or are in the process (planning attacks, etc.) is not assassination. Why are they using this word for the situation described?

And how can 0bama and his people justify assassination of American citizens, regardless where they happen to be located in the world?? Is any FReeper able to clear my lack of comprehension?

20 posted on 07/20/2010 3:00:15 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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