THANK
YOU WILLIAM..... THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE REASONS WE ABSOLUTELY MUST STAND AND
HELP TO INFORM THOSE ALREADY STANDING ACROSS THE NATION... THIS IS EXACTLY
HOW HITLER HOODWINKED A NATION... CREATED AN ENEMY...BEGAN TARGETING THE
CREATION...CONVINCED THE PEOPLE IT WAS FOR THEIR GOOD... THE REST IS HISTORY...
IS IT ALSO OUR FUTURE?
Speaking of dictators...did you know there is a secret committee at the White House that has the authority to recommend US citizens for assassination?
Ron Paul: Who Else is on Obama’s Secret Kill List?
Transcript
According to the
Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of
life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not
some aspirational statement of values, allowing exceptions when convenient, but
rather, it is the law of the land. It is the basis of our Republic
and our principal bulwark against tyranny.
Last week’s assassination of two American
citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, is an outrage and a criminal act
carried out by the President and his administration. If the law
protecting us against government-sanctioned assassination can be voided when
there is a “really bad American”, is there any meaning left to the rule of law in
the United States? If, as we learned last week, a secret
government committee, not subject to congressional oversight or judicial
review, can now target certain Americans for assassination, under what moral
authority do we presume to lecture the rest of the world about protecting human
rights? Didn’t we just bomb Libya into oblivion under the
auspices of protecting the civilians from being targeted by their
government? Timothy McVeigh was certainly a threat, as were Nidal Hassan
and Jared Lee Loughner. They killed people in front of many witnesses.
They took up arms against their government in a literal way, yet were
still afforded trials. These constitutional protections are in place
because our Founders realized it is a very serious matter to deprive any individual
of life or liberty. Our outrage against even the obviously guilty is not
worth the sacrifice of the rule of law. Al-Awlaki has been outspoken
against the United States and we are told he encouraged violence
against Americans. We do not know that he actually committed any
acts of violence. Ironically, he was once invited to the Pentagon as part
of an outreach to moderate Muslims after 9/11. As
the US attacks against Muslims in the Middle East and Central Asia
expanded, it is said that he became more fervent and radical in his opposition
to US foreign policy.
Many
cheer this killing because they believe that in a time of war, due process is
not necessary – not even for citizens, and especially not for those overseas.
However, there has been no formal declaration of war and certainly not
one against Yemen. The post-9/11 authorization for force would not have
covered these two Americans because no one is claiming they had any connection
to that attack. Al-Awlaki was on a kill list compiled by a secret panel
within President Obama’s National Security Council and Justice Department.
How many more Americans citizens are on that list? They won’t tell
us. What are the criteria? They won’t tell us. Where is the evidence? They
won’t tell us.
Al-Awlaki’s
father tried desperately to get the administration to at least allow his son to
have legal representation to challenge the “kill” order. He was denied. Rather
than give him his day in court, the administration, behind closed doors, served
as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner.The most worrisome aspect of this
is that any new powers this administration accrues will serve as precedents for
future administrations. Even those who completely trust this
administration must understand that if this usurpation of power and denial of
due process is allowed to stand, these powers will remain to be expanded on by
the next administration and then the next. Will you trust them?
History shows that once a population gives up its rights, they are not easily
won back. Beware.
--
Teri
Rags make paper,
Paper makes money,
Money makes banks,
Banks make loans,
Loans make poverty,
Poverty makes rags.
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