Posted on 05/31/2012 5:26:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
The leader of the government regularly sits down with his senior generals and spies and advisers and reviews a list of the people they want him to authorize their agents to kill. They do this every Tuesday morning when the leader is in town. The leader once condemned any practice even close to this, but now relishes the killing because he has convinced himself that it is a sane and sterile way to keep his country safe and himself in power. The leader, who is running for re-election, even invited his campaign manager to join the group that decides whom to kill.
This is not from a work of fiction, and it is not describing a series of events in the Kremlin or Beijing or Pyongyang. It is a fair summary of a 6,000-word investigative report in The New York Times earlier this week about the White House of Barack Obama. Two Times journalists, Jo Becker and Scott Shane, painstakingly and chillingly reported that the former lecturer in constitutional law and liberal senator who railed against torture and Gitmo now weekly reviews a secret kill list, personally decides who should be killed and then dispatches killers all over the world -- and some of his killers have killed Americans.
We have known for some time that President Obama is waging a private war. By that I mean he is using the CIA on his own -- and not the military after congressional authorization -- to fire drones at thousands of persons in foreign lands, usually while they are riding in a car or a truck. He has done this both with the consent and over the objection of the governments of the countries in which he has killed. He doesn't want to talk about this, but he doesn't deny it. How chilling is it that David Axelrod -- the president's campaign manager -- has periodically seen the secret kill list? Might this be to keep the killings politically correct?
Can the president legally do this? In a word: No.
The president cannot lawfully order the killing of anyone, except according to the Constitution and federal law. Under the Constitution, he can only order killing using the military when the U.S. has been attacked, or when an attack is so imminent and certain that delay would cost innocent American lives, or in pursuit of a congressional declaration of war. Under federal law, he can only order killing using civilians when a person has been sentenced lawfully to death by a federal court and the jury verdict and the death sentence have been upheld on appeal. If he uses the military to kill, federal law requires public reports of its use to Congress and congressional approval after 180 days.
The U.S. has not declared war since World War II. If the president knows that an attack on our shores is imminent, he'd be hard-pressed to argue convincingly that a guy in a truck in a desert 10,000 miles from here -- no matter his intentions -- poses a threat to the U.S. so imminent and certain that he needs to be killed on the spot in order to save the lives of Americans who would surely die during the time it would take to declare war on the country that harbors him, or during the time it would take to arrest him. Under no circumstances may he use civilian agents for non-judicial killing. Surely, CIA agents can use deadly force to protect themselves, but they may not use it offensively. Federal laws against murder apply to the president and to all federal agents and personnel, wherever they go on the planet.
Since 9/11, the United States government has set up national security systems that function not under the Constitution, not under the Geneva Conventions, not under the rule of law, not under the rules of war, not under federal law, but under a new secret system crafted by the Bush administration and personally directed by Obama, the same Obama who condemned these rules as senator and then extended them as president. In the name of fighting demons in pick-up trucks and wars that Congress has never declared, the government shreds our rights, taps our cellphones, reads our emails, kills innocents abroad, strip searches 87-year-old grandmothers in wheelchairs and 3-year-old babies in their mothers' arms, and offers secrecy when the law requires accountability.
Obama has argued that his careful consideration of each person he orders killed and the narrow use of deadly force are an adequate and constitutional substitute for due process. The Constitution provides for no such thing. He has also argued that the use of drones to do his killing is humane since they are "surgical" and only kill their targets. We know that is incorrect. And he has argued that these killings are consistent with our values. What is he talking about? The essence of our values is the rule of law, not the rule of presidents.
Found on Obama’s “Kill List”: The economy, jobs, America’s credit rating, deficit reduction, Keystone Pipeline, off shore drilling, NASA,traditional marriage, 1st Amendment rights.......
..there is another story out there, that Odungo has taken to watching the classified video’s of the missile missions like a 12 yr old plays video games....this alone has some in the WH raising eyebrows. But alas, he IS the little boy king and his new found amusement must be satisfying some symptom of his narcissistic personality disorder.
Personally it’s the only thing I agree with that Obama has done. He may be a socialist and he may be a Muslim but he also has a strong sense of self-preservation.
Can we rely on a radical leftest to restrain from adding perceived enemies to the list who reside here in the US?
Has any leftest been able to restrain themselves from that?
To: Kaslin
Found on Obama’s “Kill List”: The economy, jobs, America’s credit rating, deficit reduction, Keystone Pipeline, off shore drilling, NASA,traditional marriage, 1st Amendment rights.......
You missed the most obvious target, the entire U.S. Constitution.
This is terrible and absent oversight under the Constitution we’re all ignorant of who is being killed and what is being achieved. The Imperial Presidency must be ended. Our system is designed for a weak Executive and a strong Legislature. We’re way off course.
That is a different Kill List.
Yes, you are on it. So am I. Every marxist group in history had a list of “reactionaries and subversives” to be eliminated.
The leftist radicals of the 1960s have not changed their minds, just their tactics.
BTW, I learned decades ago that my name was on a list of former military officers to be liquidated after a successful attack by the USSR. I’ll bet the Chicoms have a list too.
Don’t be afraid; be alert!
Most of We the People are on this list...
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obamas-mentor-1.html
There’s always some lackey cheering for the police state.
People recently on Obama’s kill list for 2012:
Donna Summer
Mary Kennedy
Vidal Sassoon
Maurice Sendak
George Lindsey “Goober Pyle” on Mayberry, R.F.D.
Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys)
Dick Clark
Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows)
Pointed this out to people B4 the 08 elections .... nobody listened.
The AMAZING thing about these people who are destroying this country is indeed their “Audacity”. They are SO confident of success, that they don’t even resort to cover activities - they do it right in front of the US Sheeple, day after day after day.
The Big Lies (Dan Rather just now stating as a fact that journalists aren’t liberal);
The Alinsky Techniques (Character assassination vs actual debate on the merits of an issue - Palin, Cain, etc);
Voter Fraud (Dead people voting, multiple votes, manipulated vote tallying);
Executive Orders to circumvent the Constituion;
Disarming the population (they’re resorting to UN B$ treaties because they know damn well they can’t get it done legitimately);
A corrupt judicial system;
AND
Assassination as the last resort.
The End Times for this Nation are upon us if we don’t do something SIGNIFICANT in the VERY near future.
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