The Constitution is Dead; All Hail King Obama!

The U.S. government has the right to order the killing of American citizens overseas if they are senior al-Qaeda leaders who pose an imminent terrorist threat and cannot reasonably be captured, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Monday.

* YOU UNDERSTAND, MY FRIENDS, I HOPE, THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS DEAD... AMERICA IS NO LONGER A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC UNDER THE RULE OF LAW. THE PRESIDENT IS NOW OFFICIALLY ABOVE THE LAW - ACCORDING TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.

* AND CONGRESS? THEY'LL REMAIN LARGELY SILENT - HAPPY TO ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY BY REFUSING TO OFFICIALLY "APPROVE" OR "DISAPPROVE" THIS INSANE CLAIM OF EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY NOWHERE AUTHORIZED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.

“Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen — even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaeda in a foreign land — is among the gravest that government leaders can face,” Holder said in a speech at Northwestern University’s law school in Chicago. “The American people can be — and deserve to be — assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.”

* AGAIN, FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY FOR THIS FALSE CLAIM OF EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. BASICALLY THEY'RE CLAIMING THE AUTHORITY TO ASSASSINATE AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD WITHOUT FIRST BOTHERING WITH A TRIAL, LET ALONE CONVICTION. (AND SINCE THE WHOLE WORLD IS THE "BATTLEFIELD AGAINST TERROR" YOU KNOW THAT TODAY'S REMARKS BY HOLDER ARE BUT ANOTHER LINK IN THE CHAIN THEY'RE FORGING WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY END WITH THE CLAIM THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CAN ORDER THE ASSASSINATIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ON AMERICAN TERRITORY WITHOUT TRAIL, LET ALONE CONVICTION.)

Holder’s speech represents the administration’s most elaborate public explanation to date on targeted killings.

* FOLKS... THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT - I REPEAT, DOES NOT - EMPOWER THE PRESIDENT... WITH OR WITHOUT CONGRESS' APPROVAL FOR THAT MATTER... WITH OR WITHOUT A WINK AND A NUDGE FROM A MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT... TO SIGN "DEATH WARRANTS" APPLICABLE TO AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO HAVE BEEN NEITHER TRIED OR CONVICTED.

There are currently no known U.S. citizens on target lists maintained by the CIA or the military’s Joint Special Operations Command.

* NO... KNOWN... U.S. CITIZENS...

(*HEAD EXPLODING*)

* FOLKS... THIS IS NOT AMERICA. AT LEAST IT'S NOT MY AMERICA.

* FOLKS... MAYBE... JUST MAYBE... IF WE WERE IN A FORMAL DECLARED WAR OR IN THE MIDST OF A CIVIL WAR THE PRESIDENT COULD DECLARE MARTIAL LAW AND ASSUME FOR HIMSELF THESE POWERS, BUT WE'RE NOT UNDER MARTIAL LAW! (AT LEAST I DIDN'T THINK WE WERE!)

“While the speech is a gesture towards additional transparency, it is ultimately a defense of the government’s chillingly broad claimed authority to conduct targeted killings of civilians, including American citizens, far from any battlefield without judicial review or public scrutiny,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “Anyone willing to trust President Obama with the power to secretly declare an American citizen an enemy of the state and order his extrajudicial killing should ask whether they would be willing to trust the next president with that dangerous power.”

* IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF WHO I TRUST OR WHO HINA SHAMSI TRUSTS! IT'S A MATTER OF THERE BEING NO - REPEAT, NO - CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY FOR THE PRESIDENT TO CLAIM SUCH POWER. ANY PRESIDENT! (OR ANY CONGRESS FOR THAT MATTER!)

* LISTEN... YOU WANT THE PRESIDENT TO HAVE THIS POWER? THEY PUSH FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT GIVING IT TO HIM! SUCH A COURSE OF ACTIONS REEKS OF INSANITY TO ME... BUT... AT LEAST THAT'S THE CONSTITUTIONAL PATHWAY TO SUCH AN AWARD OF POWER!

Holder argued that a careful and thorough executive branch review of the facts in a case amounts to “due process”...

* FOLKS... BY THAT STATEMENT HOLDER SHOWS HIMSELF UNFIT FOR HIS POSITION. OF COURSE THE CONGRESS WON'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO IMPEACH HIM AND REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE, BUT THAT JUST SHOWS HOW OUT OF CONTROL WASHINGTON IS.

[Holder argues] that the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protection against depriving a citizen of his or her life without due process of law does not mandate a “judicial process.”

* SO HE ARGUES THAT THE CONSTITUTION GIVES THE PRESIDENT THE POWER TO BE... er... LITERALLY... JUDGE, JURY, AND EXECUTIONER.

* FOLKS... THE FACT THAT IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS AREN'T CURRENTLY UNDERWAY DEMONSTRATES THE TRUTH OF MY STATEMENT THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS DEAD... AMERICA IS NO LONGER A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC UNDER THE RULE OF LAW.