The Right To Kill

President Obama, under the guise of national security, has given himself the power to be judge, jury and executioner. If you are an American, traveling overseas, let's say to the Middle East on business, and for some strange reason, the president judges you to be a terrorist and finds you, to be a national security threat, he can KILL YOU! 

Excuse me? you say. Yes, the president apparently has seen fit to, at will, order a drone strike on any American overseas the deems a threat. Can the president, any president, do that? Not according to Judge Andrew Napolitano who offers this opinion: Read More: Obama Grants Himself a License to Kill

Some would argue that an American born citizen who has turned his allegiance to terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and is collaborating with the enemy deserves to be killed. Maybe so, but, as Judge Napolitano pointed out the president  'can only order killing using the military when the U.S. has been attacked or when an attack is so imminent that delay would cost innocent lives. He can also order killing using the military in pursuit of a declaration of war enacted by Congress.' 

President Obama has earned the label of hypocrite. In 2009 he ordered the intelligence gathering technique of "waterboarding" stopped by federal interrogators, saying it was cruel and that Americans do not resort to torture. Over the past couple of years, Obama has fallen in love with the drone, having ordered the unmanned, armed predator to seek out and kill suspected terrorist group leaders. The president has thus  adopted the attitude that you can kill a terrorist, but you can't torture one. 

And how long would it be before the government is using drones to spy on and lethally use them against us here at home?







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