“This press release is just part of the process of acclimating the public and, more importantly, local law enforcement to accept this like its a normal and necessary function of government.”
That’s the BHO Adm’s mo. Like a trial balloon, that’s what they do, on ever-increasing scales of encroachment of the Constitution and in furtherance of their Marxist totalitarian goals.
Putting "death selection" in the hands of powerful men acting in secret and unconstrained by the rule of law, is tyranny. It doesn't matter whether the selection and execution is done by a Democrat or Republican administration, by the medicoes or the military: an Obamacare death panel, a secret White House NSC committee, a board of medical ethicists with PhD's after their names and ice-water in their veins, or the Reichsführer-SS. The outcome is the same. It's murder.
People are cravenly going along with this for now, because Obama has calculatingly begun by snuffing a guy that not many people will wring their hands and boo-hoo about. Don't we realize that that's how precedents are made?
This is the exercise of raw despotic power in a style V.I.Lenin would have loved. It is grounds for impeachment in itself: yes, moreso, I would say, that even Fast and Furious.
If we wink and nod at this, you and I, we are deeply corrupt and we will deseve everything we get. Including the final shiv between our own shoulder blades.