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Posted on 10/04/2011 12:22:48 PM PDT by traviskicks
Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.
Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week’s killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader, the Texas congressman said impeachment would be “possible,” but that he wants to know more about how the administration “flouted the law.”
Paul called the killing a movement toward “tyranny.”
“I put responsibility on the president because this is obviously a step in the wrong direction,” Paul said. “We have just totally disrespected the Constitution.”
The comments once again put Paul at odds with his Republican rivals over foreign policy and the war on terror in the latest indication of how his foreign policy views stray far from Republican orthodoxy even in a GOP that’s taken on an increasingly isolationist bent. Candidates like Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney — who included the president in a list of people he commended in a statement released Friday — have generally been supportive of the killing. No one else in the field has spoken out against it.
But Paul’s stuck with the civil libertarians who’ve criticized the targeted killing of an American citizen without public due process.
Paul, speaking at the University of New Hampshire’s Manchester campus as part of a brief swing through the state, also made another pitch for eliminating the federal income tax.
“If our lives and our liberty are our own, we ought to be able to keep the fruits of our labor,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Several? 53K at Gettysburg, alone.
Legally, this law makes sense and provides cover for the administration’s actions. However, I am torn about this because I am truly frightened over the interpretatation of this law, especially with our current administration’s mind set. Who is to say that you or I could not be declared a terrorist and enemy of the state? What if (heaven forbid) a Freeper loses his mind and attacks the US? Could we not be listed as known associates because we are members of the same ‘organization’? I know this is a stretch, but when has this administration not twisted the law to get their way? I would certainly want due process to sort out the conflict.
Oh most assuredly, Obama should be impeached, but not for THAT!
Alright, I think Ron Paul just lost my vote.
But...but...Obama hasn’t called me an enemy today, so I must be safe! And I haven’t left the country in weeks—so I must be safe!
These dummies think it can’t happen to them, just the people who really are America’s enemies. Obama and Big Sis decide who the enemies are, and if it’s FR next week, they’ve jumped on the “kill `em all without a trial” bandwagon. Good work on their part, tearing up the Constitution for expediency and Obama’s sake.
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