President Allowed to Kill You Without Due Process

It's just a pathetic fact that this democracy is dying.

The Democratic president wants to be able to kill you based on his "intelligence" and all those voters that voted for him are totally ok with that. I mean sure had GW’s Attorney General responded with the exact same letter as below we would have seen protests all over the country, which I think is appropriate. But since it’s their guy doing the killing they have no problem.

We are ruled by despots because the majority of the population have the intellect of children. They have the capacity for responsibility of pet dogs. This is terrifying:

Dear Senator Paul,

On February 20, 2013, you write to John Brennan requesting additional information concerning the administration's views about whether "the President has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial."

As members of this Administration have previously indicated, the US government has not carried out drone strikes in the United States and have no intention of doing so. As a policy matter, moreover, we reject the use of military force where well-established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat. We have a long history of using the criminal justice system to incapacitate individuals located in our country who pose a threat to the United States and its interests abroad. Hundreds of individual have been arrested and convicted of terrorism-related offenses in our federal courts.

The question you have posed is entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur and we hope no president will ever have to confront. It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States. For example, the president could conceivably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland in the circumstances of a catastrophic attack like the ones suffered on Dec. 7, 1941 and Sept. 11, 2001.

Were such an emergency to arise, I would examine the particular facts and circumstances before advising the President on the scope of his authority.

Sincerely,

Eric Holder, Attorney General

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I used to be baffled at how Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and all the other brutal dictatorships rose to power. I used to question - how could a population of those sizes succumb to something so obviously wrong? Now I understand and hate to be witnessing it in real time. Some will call that hyperbole. My response - the President can kill you at any moment with only his reasoning as a justification according to the Attorney General.

More thorough analysis provided by George Washington here.