Sorry folks... But Americans that join Al Queda need to be killed just like any other terrorist scumbag. It’s a war paradigm, not a law enforcement paradigm. I’m suspicious of Obama’s motives just like everybody else... And I’ve got my own end-game stockpiles... But this doesn’t scare me. It’s a confirmation of— indeed a vindication of Bush policy on the very same matter. We don’t need be going into foreign lands to pull American Muslim slime out for prosecution. We need to just exterminate them alongside their vermin buddies. They joined the enemy. This is a capability that any President will need for many years to come. Unfortunately that also includes the doofus currently in office.
This isn’t about launching drone strikes inside the U.S. against the Tea Party. If he was really going to do that he wouldn’t need to bother making it legal. The time for that will have been long gone.
” or “an associated force” — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S. “
All they need to do is to claim a local Tea Party chapter had links to Al Qaeda.
Boom.
Dead conservatives.
Dead Freepers.
You are thinking about this in too narrow a manner. This decision brings the possibility of the war paradigm into the law enforcement paradigm. I don’t know if the administration would actually conduct a drone strike against a “domestic terrorist” inside the country, but this scenario is much more likely now.