Barack Obama 'has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US soil' [ I N S A N I T Y ]

telegraph.co.uk ^ | March 6 2013 | telegraph.co.uk

[KrisKrinkle]

“President Barack Obama has the authority to use an unmanned drone strike to kill US citizens on American soil, his attorney general has said.”

So you're using that as justification for this: “He can kill anyone of us without due process using the US Military to do so.”

But:

Your justification doesn't say "kill anyone", it doesn't even say "kill any US citizen"; it says "kill US citizens" clearly indicating "some" but not necessarily "any" or "all".

Your justification doesn't say "without due process". It doesn't address the matter at all. It mentions "authority", but for all you know the "authority" is limited by the requirements of due process."

Your justification doesn't say anything about the US military. They aren't the only ones to have drones.

[KrisKrinkle]

"Outline the chain of due process that allows for the use of the US Military to kill a US Citizen on US Soil."

US Constitution, Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States..." and Article I, Section 8, "The Congress shall have Power...; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"

Of course, you changed the focus and the above does not mean, as you wrote, “He can kill anyone of us without due process using the US Military to do so.”

[KantianBurke]

The civil rights folks around here sure are johnny come lately’s. Let me get this straight - Dubya locking up US citizens forever and depriving them of habeus corpus - cool. Obama killing them - not cool?