Can the President Kill You?

Townhall.com ^ | March 8, 2012 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

[ml/nj]

The constitution provides for war

You're right. It does. But the Congress was supposed to have something to do with it. The way things were set up the President was supposed to follow the orders of Congress. Lincoln changed all that. Don't you just love it?

ML/NJ

[Lady Jag]

The title says "Can" not "May."

Yes he can and yes he will.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Laws in the hands of a conservative President, are not the same as laws under a POTUS that evidently hates America, fredom of speech, free enterprise,the Constitution.......need I go on?

[EEGator]

I know his response...”C’mon guys.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

It probably wouldn’t be Barack himself anyhow. It would probably be one of his teleprompter writers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

True, one might have expected to see Lincoln accept the secession then ask the now smaller Congress for a declaration of war — and he probably would have gotten it, as the seceded states had also walked off with Federal property and were beginning to shoot.

It does not appear anyone in the North seriously tried to halt the hostilities.

[Ramius]

I’d say war is war, whether one bullet or a thousand bombs... or in this case a single rocket taking out an opposition leader in a vehicle. I’m -very- sensitive to any threat to the Constitution, but this one gives me no heartburn at all.

Would we not have shot down Yamamoto’s airplane if his teenage child were also on board? Of course we still would have. War is war and Awlaki joined the other side. Anybody that joins the enemy whether soldier, spy or otherwise is liable to be killed on the battlefield wherever that battlefield is.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Edge of a wedge. It will eventually be used on inconvenient people.

Already been used and approved - ask Andrew Breitbart, but it's not new - Vince Foster and Ron Brown found that out.

[Hardraade]

Can he kill dangerous enemy combattants? Yes. Can he kill political opponents? We’ll find out.

[LucyT]

Thanks, Nully.

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[A_Tradition_Continues]

Is the USA officially in a declared war against another country?

[Leep]

Could I have a McDouble and a sm Carmel Frappe, please.

[2harddrive]

The real question is: Can they do that to a US citizen, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES?

[Scythian]

You fools, the President does nothing of the sort, the goverment is a mere facade used to sedate the people. Governments, Wars, Genocide, they're all arranged, planned, coordinated to suit our needs. The needs of the people are inconsequential. You know this to be true but can't bare to unmask the reality of this world. Go play and frolic while we stoke the fires of dispair.

[SevenofNine]

Leave it to Freeper pull that Godfather quote eh Dfwgator LOL!

[Cyber Liberty]

Yer doin’ it wrong....

[ml/nj]

Your assertion is plain silly. Those poor people were citizens of the CSA, not the USA. You don’t get to have it both ways.

So, then Lincoln got a Declaration of War from Congress against this CSA, right? Oh, no he didn't. He never recognized the secession. I'm not the one who wants things both ways. I'm just an honest Yankee reading my history books. (But, of course these were books I had to buy myself and not any that were assigned in my high school history classes. And even when I was in high school back in the early 60s, we were often getting a history critical of US action but NEVER in the case of the War of Northern Aggression.)

ML/NJ

[TheOldLady]

Thanks for the ping, nut-job to nut-job.

[luvbach1]

Once the cult of personality in this or any country reaches a point at which the state and its leader (read dictator) are as one, mere critics become enemies of the state and, as such, are subject to extreme prejudice. In other words, they can be whacked.

[Noamie]

Yes. Ask the children at Waco, TX. Wait, you can’t.