Earlier this week the “Justice” Department leaked a document which described the administration’s alleged drone-attack authority, claiming that they even had the right to “deliberately kill American citizens” ~

… the memo says it is legal for the government to kill U.S. citizens abroad if it believes they are senior Al Qaeda leaders continually engaged in operations aimed at killing Americans — even if there is no intelligence pointing to an active plot against America.

 
Yes folks, this is what tyranny looks like:
 
Here’s Judge Andrew P. Napolitano’s assessment of this latest autocratic extra-legal action: President Obama gives himself permission to kill.

The undated and unsigned 16-page document leaked to NBC refers to itself as a Department of Justice white paper. Its logic is flawed, its premises are bereft of any appreciation for the values of the Declaration of Independence and the supremacy of the Constitution, and its rationale could be used to justify any breaking of any law by any “informed, high-level official of the U.S. government.”
 
The quoted phrase is extracted from the memo, which claims that the law reposes into the hands of any unnamed “high-level official,” not necessarily the president, the lawful power to decide when to suspend constitutional protections guaranteed to all persons and kill them without any due process whatsoever.
This is the power claimed by kings and tyrants. It is the power most repugnant to American values. It is the power we have arguably fought countless wars to prevent from arriving here. Now, under Obama, it is here…
 
… Federal laws against murder apply to the president and to all federal agents and personnel in their official capacities, wherever they go on the planet.
 
Obama has argued that he can kill Americans whose deaths he believes will keep us all safer, without any due process whatsoever. No law authorizes that. His attorney general has argued that the president’s careful consideration of each target and the narrow use of deadly force are an adequate and constitutional substitute for due process. No court has ever approved that. And his national security adviser has argued that the use of drones is humane since they are “surgical” and only kill their targets. We know that is incorrect, as the folks who monitor all this say that 11 percent to 17 percent of the 2,300 drone-caused deaths have been those of innocent bystanders.
 
Did you consent to a government that can kill whom it wishes? How about one that plays tricks on federal judges? How long will it be before the presidential killing comes home?

 
So much for the rule of law. And the separation of powers. (Congress is doing nothing productive to confront this tyranny.)
Obama has declared himself “The Law.”
 
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Rex Lex! (The King is the Law!)