For many of us, Rand Paul’s filibuster was a surreal moment in time, beckoning back to better days when Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was considered a masterpiece of film because it embodied the values of our nation. Today, “violence porn” films like Django Unchained are considered the top of the heap because they, sadly, embody our corrupt and violent society.
“Old Bull” Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham thought Rand Paul’s filibuster was stupid and irrelevant. That it was ridiculous to think that Barack Hussein Obama, who has from almost Day One of his presidency spurned the rule of law—often blathering about “if Congress won’t act, I will”—would drop a hellfire missile on an American sitting in a cafe.
But this wasn’t some manufactured issue, as the Left is famous for. Michael Isakoff uncovered a secret DOJ memo last month that gave the Obama administration the authority to kill any U.S. citizen, at any time, anywhere, without proof, without due process, accountable to no one.
And in fact, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was taken out by a drone for basically being a propagandist for Al-Qaeda. Whether, being an American citizen, he should have been given due process is debatable. But two weeks after al-Awlaki was killed, his sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman, also an American citizen, was killed with a drone. His crime was being related to an identified terrorist. And in fact, then-Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs blamed al-Awlaki’s son for “not having a more responsible father” for his being vaporized by a missile.
And then there was the news that the Obama administration had ordered a fleet of “public safety” drones, able to pick up cell phone traffic, able to identify whether the target—that is, an American citizen—is armed or not—with the ability to be easily outfitted with missiles. Experts estimate this fleet of “public safety” drones to reach 30,000 by the end of Obama’s “third term.”
This in itself would have remained innocuous enough, but there was this odd “War on Domestic Terrorism” that the Obama administration was waging against conservatives.
For example, the Department of Homeland Security published a study titled “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, which identified potential domestic terrorists as those who are “reverent of individual liberty.” Those who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority.” Those who believe there is a “grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
This of course sounds very much like beliefs espoused by conservatives, specifically the Tea Party, so it was valid for conservatives to be concerned.
Rand Paul, more pointedly, cited in his filibuster further ludicrous “behaviors” of potential domestic terrorists: Those who have guns with high capacity magazines and weatherized ammunition. Those who have more than a seven day supply of food. Those who pay in cash. And probably the most ludicrous: Those who are missing fingers.
It took almost two months for the American people to get a straight answer from the Obama administration as to whether an American citizen can be killed on American soil with a drone for being a potential terrorist.
Obama refused to answer the question. CIA appointee John Brennan, prompted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to answer. Attorney General Eric Holder initially stated that it was constitutional in a letter to Senator Rand Paul. But when pressed by Senator Cruz, after equivocating for several minutes, Holder finally admitted that no, the Obama administration could not constitutionally kill an American citizen on American soil with a drone—though he never states this directly.
This was the impetus for Rand Paul’s thirteen hour filibuster of the John Brennan nomination, which finally resulted in the Obama administration sending a terse and extremely vague letter to Rand Paul, supposedly clarifying its position.
The letter states:
It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: “Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?” The answer to that question is no.
Of course, the question is, what does the Obama administration consider “combat”? This was not addressed; and more than likely, Obama, like everything else surrounding his drone program, will keep this under wraps.
John Brennan, who is in charge of the Obama administration’s drone program abroad, will no doubt become the de facto head of the domestic “public safety” drone program. All able to nullify the Fourth Amendment and spy on Americans. All able to determine whether a potential “domestic terrorist” is armed. All able to fire a missile, vaporizing an American sitting in a cafe, minding his own business, deemed by Barack Hussein Obama to be engaged in “combat.”
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I am having a hard time believing that the Pilots of these drones are so far removed from Reality that they would even consider what they are doing to Other American Citizens. He could be setting up his Own Family by Mistake, or worse, the Pilot beside him in the other control room, is Targeting the other Pilots family for EXTINCTION, and he himself could well end up being a Mark.
And what about these Pilot kids family, they enabled the lad, and got him to where he was willing to Slaughter his or someone elses family with just the say so of someone with more Rank.
Curse the day such a lad was born, and let the curse of Not Caring for ones family, fall back to the Seventh Generation.
To Raise such a Roague Killer without a Conscience, one must have done something wrong when it came to the Up Bringing of such a child. Yyou tought them NO MORALS, and NO RESPECT for others or their Lives or Properties. They amount to a RABID DOG Loose to Kill and Destroy. Shame on You. SHAME SHAME
Abuse found me at an early age…Turned me into some kind of man. But I had a lot of Help and guidence to keep me from going off the deep end. If the Truth does Not Abide in Your Heart, then I want nothing to do with you.
What you may do in the Privacy of your home, as long as it is NOT ABUSE TO ANOTHER, Knock Yourself Out, just don’t judge me if I choose Not to be that way. You stay on your side of the street, and I will stay on mine.
DHS and other alphabet agencies have recently purchased over 1.8 BILLION rounds of hollow point ammo – enough to shoot every man, woman, and child in the country 5 times or more – ammo that’s illegal for military use under international law, and have just ordered more and an additional 7,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC “personal defense” weapons. They have also recently purchased almost 3,000 armored fighting vehicles formuse on the streets of America, in addition to the many already obtained from DoD. How does anyone with the capability of rational thought escape the conclusion that our government is preparing for a war on its own citizens?
Obama, Holder, and virtuall all of the other members of the Obama regime lie with straight faces ALL The time. Does anyone really believe they would hesitate to use armed drones on Americans who oppose them? I sure don’t.
The growing push towards resistance is not constrained to the fringes – the first mistake the tyrants in DC make is to assume that.
Every militarily significant weapon made in the last 100 years has sold. 4.6 million weapon sales in 30 days is not a panic – it’s battlespace preparation.
The second mistake is to try to assert that this trend is about racism. That’s a cop-out used to demonize – It’s an easy excuse to ignore another person’s points, and justify doing bad things to them; it’s an attempt to convince people that those who oppose the regime’s policies and actions are evil or deranged.
The final mistake is to assume that the military and law enforcement agencies will follow orders To disarm their fellow Americans. The military and police are a sub-section of the total population, and will break along the same ideological lines.
Some police and military members will follow orders. Many, probably most, will disobey, desert, and rebel against orders to attack, imprison, or murder their families, neighbors, and fellow patriots to prop up a corrupt and tyrannical regime.
This has been played out time and time again in human history.
“Anyone who tells you that ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no ‘house rule’ that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.” – Mike Vanderboegh
Statist politicians should not assume that if they prompt an insurrection it will end easily, nor that those they’ve demonized will go quietly into the dark night, nor that they personally will not suffer if it blows up.
my notes: i have nothing to hide,i tell it like it is,so come get me,i’m not afraid. pl,orl,fla
The current occupant of the POTUS slot is using tactics of the gutter. Most of his appointees also use tactics of the gutter. Why? They are progeny of the gutter, and these tactics are the ones they grew up with. That is what they know.
They are not social types who have acquired self respect and appreciation of humanity after they outlived their lives in the gutters of society.. They want to win, to dominate, to subjugate, and they use gutter tactics which are indecent, which demean humanity, which insult God´s creation. Tactics of which Satan is quite proud. They tend to believe that when this life ends, existence ends, that there is no spirit.
Evil is as evil does. We have seen it constantly since the 1950s, when the transplanted NAZI began to take over the U.S. Simply review the history of the Bush family, since the appearance of “oil man” GHWBushSr in Texas, and the subsequent political history of the Bush family in the US. GHWBushSr in the presidency, and his evil offspring as governor of Texas, governor of Florida, and George Jr. 2000 – in the POTUS slot. The WTC 9-11, the patriot missile into the pentagon, fired by a US naval vessel in the Chesapeake Bay, and the subsequent falsified war on terror. The non-american Obama could have done nothing without the preparation done by the GHWBushSr entourage. Schwarzenegger and Feinstein of California ??? For sure, Feinstein doesn´t shoot up steroids. Nor do I think even the fools of California would elect Schwarzenegger to the U.S. Congress. They might even remove Feinstein. Just mull it over a bit.
Ignition, Bush is a Saint, compared to the POS that’s currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania, DC.
But your 9/11 conspiracy bs makes anything else you say unworthy of listening too. No damn missile hit the pentagon. And even though the democrats were cheering for the terrorist in Afghanistan and Iraq when they ramped up the violence in each country, Bush never called or labeled them the enemy.
They deny that they were rooting against our troops, but rather just against G.W.Bush and his policies.
That’s bs as well. The terrorist were inspired by the democrat support to do more because it made them believe that the American public would buckle and demand the war end just as they had during the Vietnam war. Democrats are always traitors against this country when a Republican is POTUS.
History will prove that to be the case, just like tit will the fraudulent jerk POTUS that we have today.
The constitution is what all government officials swear to protect from all enemies, foreign and domestic, not some lame azz president himself. So by him violating the oath he took in order to assume the position of Commander In Chief, he is the true enemy of the state, not the patriotic conservative Americans who are probably going to have to rise up and remover him.
And when that happens, everyone who help him facilitate the destruction of our country will have to be dealt with in the same manner that he plans on dealing with us when he is defeated. That includes the MSM, ACLU, SPLC, all the democrat politicians and their supporters.
Bush didn’t write the Patriot Act either, Ted Kennedy and the democrats wrote that legislation and then demanded Bush sign it into law. Bush had problems with the bill and wanted changes made before signing it, but typical friggin’ dems gave him a choice to sign it as is, or they would tell the American people that Bush was refusing to provide the tools needed in order for the government to protect the American public from future terrorist attacks.
Yes, a missile did hit the Pentagon – it was a passenger airplane full of innocent men, women and children used as a missile.
Could you pleae clarify for me when a Patriot Missle was fired into the Pentagon by a navy Frigate in the Cheasapeak bay? I know of 9 11 and the 4 islamist terrorist controlled planes but never heard of a Missle being fired into the Pentagon
Holder said the WH wouldn’t use a drone to kill an American Citizen in the US.
More than likely they will continue to use the Breitbart method instead.
You think I’m kidding?
Although we don’t whether KNOW Breitbart was murdered or not, we also don’t know whether Holder ‘s limiting of his statement was done intentionally to still give the WH the illegal authority to murder citizens by other means.
BRING IT ON, YOU FILTHY SLIME!!!
If a single American Patriot gets killed by a drone I believe that would make obama a murderer and would make him fair target, considering he is not qualified to be POTUS. He has been getting away with ignoring the main founding document of America, the Constitution. He has been responsible for the MURDER of 4 civil servants in Benghazi. He has absolutely disregarded the laws of the United States. Yet everyone in Congress has been looking the other way or has their head in the sand. Most of those in congress have disregarded the Oath of the Office and as such are liable for impeachment or major crimes against the United States.
He would be overstepping his authority if he follows through with such an act.
All of you were not listening closely to what Holder said. He said it would not be legal for them to use drones to kill UNARMED civilians in the US. If you have a CCW and are armed you can be declared a terrorist and poof. If you have weapons in your home, poof. Must have been a gas explosion or the whole family were terrorists. They would consider that being armed. On the other hand laws have not applied to these criminals so far and they are compulsive liars. So don’t pay any attention to what they say.
As I said before he is a muslim convert. Oh and the drones…….did you know that they have drones the size of a fly? So a little chemical shot from one of these and it seems that you just had a heart attack. I am sure that is what happened to Brietbart. And then remember how that someone doing something with the autopsy mysteriously died too……like a heart attack. How convienient. Then if that don’t work let’s just hire somebody to shoot them with a gun like Kyle (our hero sharpshooter) and say it was just someone who was unbalanced.
The government is already, at a minimum, an accomplice to murder due to their “Gun Free Zones”. These are killing fields for nutjobs. The government denies people the right to defend themselves in these areas. People can’t be made safe by disarming them. And now we will have death from above. Let’s shoot them out of the sky.
hich identified potential domestic terrorists as those who are “reverent of individual liberty.” Those who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority.” Those who believe there is a “grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
I would just like to know what is wrong with respecting the Constitution and our individual liberties? What is wrong with not believing in centralized government which is communism by the way. What is wrong with thinking that obama is a danger to America. HE IS!
I noticed that a lot of people do not believe that the Drone pilots will not fire on we the people. Don’t kid your self, they will fire on us, and kill as many as they can so Obama make the USA a Global slave Country. I hope we the people will fight back and die for our freedom if we have too. We can never trust our elected Congressmen, Senators, and lest of all our Presidents. Obama has taken over where Bill Ayers and the 60′s traitors left off. Be ready to fight for your freedom.
TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE “THE HITLER STYLE OF POINTING HIS FINGER”. I CAN’T JUST HEAR HIM SAYING IN HIS MIND, “HAIL HITLER” INSTEAD OF WHAT HE IS REALLY SAYING. THIS PIECE OF “SEWER CLUMPS” IS “ORGANIZING HIS COMMUNITY EMPLOYEES” FOR A HOLOCAUST AGAINST AMERICANS TO KILL THEM ANY WAY POSSIBLE OR NECESSARY AND THAT INCLUDES DRONES. THOSE EFFICIENT DRONES REALLY FASCINATES THIS PSYCHO-PATH. HE CAUSED THOUSANDS OF FARMERS TO HAVE TO QUIT FARMING (CUTS DOWN ON FOOD SUPPLY) IN HIS FIRST TERM BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD THE COMMUNIST, MARXIST, NAZI REGULATIONS. THE GOVERNMENT IS BUYING UP ALL THE AMMUNITION, GUNS, TANKS, ETC., RESTRICTING FOODS, STOCKPILING SUGAR (400,000 TONS?) SO WE CAN’T GET IT. THIS RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORIST, NAZI, COMMUNIST, MARXIST, TYRANT IS A NAZI MURDERER IN ANY WAY HE CAN ARRANGE IT. HIS ASSOCIATE CHICAGO THUGS AND GOONS ARE GOING TO BECOME RICH TAKING OUT AMERICANS THAT THE TERRORIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS RID OF. HE’S ALREADY DOING IT AND HAS BEEN SINCE HE STARTING CAMPAIGNING IN 2006-2007 BECAUSE HIS GAY LOVERS STARTED DISAPPEARING AND DYING OF “NATURAL CAUSES OR HANGING THEMSELVES”???. NOW ALL AMERICANS ARE A HINDERANCE TO HIM AND BECOMING THE DICTATOR OR THE MUSLIM RULER OF AMERICA. AS HE AND WIFE SAID, “WE NEED ANOTHER TERM TO FINISH OUR JOB”. THE IDIOTS, MORONS, ILLITERATES AND DONKEY/ASSES (DEMS) GAVE HIM ANOTHER TERM TO DESTROY AMERICA AND KILL EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO STOP HIM AND HIS REGIME. THAT’S WHY HE IS REDUCING OUR MILITARY TO NOTHING AND STOCKPILING EVERYTHING THAT COULD “HELP” AMERICANS SAVE OURSELVES AGAINST HIM AND HIS TERRORIST MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AL QAEDA, AND JIHADISTS. THE TERRORIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE CAME TO DESTROY AMERICA AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING AND NO ONE HAS THE GUTS TO STOP HIM. ISN’T THAT CORRECT YOU GUTLESS, PAID,TERRORIST AIDERS AND ABETTORS IN CONGRESS. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Please! It is about the Obama being able to fire a missile from a drone on U.S Soil or any American.
If a missile is fired on U.S soil against an American this would cause a counter attack that would start a civil war. I don’t think even the Lib-tards would put up with it. STILL! an American president should not have that authority to be judge, Jury or prosecutor. That is what the legal system for right?.
Come on … They will cover it up as “a horrible accident – a gas explosion” or they will claim that the family were domestic terrorists who were making bombs, but weren’t very good at it …
Look at the way they whitewashed the atrocities committed against the Weavers at Ruby Ridge and the Dividians at Waco. Hell, they burned about 80 men, women, and children alive at Waco quite deliberately and rather publicly. Tha Weavers were shot out in the woods with few witnesses. In both cases, the few survivors were cleared of the trumped up charges, but not a single fed was charged, fired, or even disciplined. If I recall correctly, some of them got commendations and promotions.
They will go sparingly at first and have good coverups ready to feed to a compliant media. Only after a serious screw-up will it become readily apparent that they are droning political enemies, then they’ll ratchet up the intensity to try to crush as much opposition as possible before they get struck back.
“Anyone who tells you that ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no ‘house rule’ that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.” – Mike Vanderboegh
Look at what they did to that Los Angeles cop! They burnt him alive too. You could hear on the video..”let’s burn him”..or something like that.
I wonder WHAT he knew, that turned them against him? I wonder what drove him over the edge?
And YES it can happen here and IS! We are just beginning to see what Obama will do to those who oppose him. He is dictator. Wait and see! Worse than ANY that have ever lived. I feel it in my bones!
I am sure you have heard of people saying…’I will be suicided soon’. And it happens.
I believe the SEAL commander…did not commit suicide…I believe he was murdered. And I believe Obama was behind it. The Commander probably did not pass Obama’s litmus test. Or he was going to speak out against the Benghazi debacle. So they snuffed him. Some people in the government did it to a madam that knew too much. She stated that if they found her hung, or what ever way she died…she was “suicided”. And it happened. And there was an unmarked black vehicle in the area…seen by neighbors.
Regarding drones of the DHS, among other things about the DHS, see my “What’s Our (Maybe Not So) ‘Friendly’ Department of Homeland Security Up To?” at: http://myconservativeperspective.wordpress.com.
SORRY, I MADE A MISTAKE IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF MY PREVIOUS COMMENT…… I SAID, “I (CAN’T) JUST” AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.. “I (CAN) JUST”.
McCain the “maverick”
“An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it”.
Evidently the dims.or the Viet-Cong branded him FIRST!!
The word “NO” coming from a narcissist, or his lackeys means NOTHING! His “No” will be a YES whenever he wants it to be. YOU DO NOT TELL A NARCISSIST WHAT TO DO..EVER!! When you get him angry…he comes back at you ten fold. I know ..I was married to a narcissist.
And Obama will never leave office…unless HE wants to leave. And I doubt he does. The most important thing that a Narcissist MUST have is POWER! The second most important thing to them is ADORATION.
NOW..if you could get the people to turn on him…he will go mad!
So how do we do this?
I think the potential word quibbling example your article pointed out was ONLY ONE of TWO in what the Admin said. You point out that some future Admin might claim that a citizen was in “combat” according to some new definition of that word which they make up. But I think there is actually another place to quibble: on the word “President.” The Admin has answered that the PRESIDENT has no such authority to kill a US citizen. But mightn’t someone else? Do you think they would be too “ashamed” or have too many scruples to strain credulity by saying “The Constitution in its wise separation of powers has put cabinet departments out of the direct control of the judicial and legislative branches. This applies to the Dept of Homeland Security. The President has tasked it to defend the national security against domestic threats, and the fellows there who are performing that task made the decision that use of a drone to eliminate a threat to our national security was justified in the case of Mr. John Doe’s death at the Great Outdoor Cafe on Main St. yesterday.”
IE, that “vague” answer from the WH would be meaningless if the Pres intends to go ahead with drone kills of “domestic terrorists” who are NOT directly involved in combat, merely by HIMSELF never giving such a direct order, but by delegating it ahead of time to DHS. Then, of course, everyone would scream that as a cabinet dept, DHS comes under the Pres’s authority, so the Pres has violated his own word that he does not have such authority. But the Pres would then come back with “Yeah, but I can’t get involved in every single decision they make. Even generals on the battlefield don’t tell each of their thousands of men what to do specifically in every encounter with every single enemy combatant. If micro-management like that were possible from one man we wouldn’t need an army or a navy in the first place.” And then the word quibbling and dicing and chopping and mincing of words would begin, and if no one had the guts to do the right thing, the precedent would be set and the issue would become a done deal for the Admin and any future one. Big Brother would be here, out in the open, with nothing left to stop him.
Basically, there is a saying that’s very true: a contract is only as good as the man who’s signed it,” and the analogy here is that an answer or a promise is only as good as the character of the man who issued it. If the intent to live up to the promise isn’t there, then a way will be found to break that promise or contradict that answer, even if it takes Alice-in-Wonderland word-twisting to “justify” it.
If we let this illegal administration slip from being prosecuted under our rule of law, then we will have violated our moral obligations as Americans and we may not be able to regain this reprepresentative republic….
Nobody has said this yet, so I will say it.
“THIRD TERM”?????????????????????