Obama Murdered 16-year-old U.S. Citizen
FEBRUARY 8, 2013 BY KRIS ZANE
On
February 4, a secret White House memo
was leaked, entitled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S.
Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated
Force.” The memo in effect states that the President has the authority to kill
any American citizen at anytime for any reason without proof, without due
process, and with absolutely no oversight.
No one blinked an eye when American-born al-Qaeda-linked
terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was vaporized with a drone strike in September of
2011. But when his sixteen-year-old son, Abdulrahman, an American citizen born
in Denver, Colorado, was vaporized in the same manner two weeks later without
any proof that he had any connection to al-Qaeda, both the Left and Right cried
foul.
Abdulrahman, along with several other teenagers, was engaged in
the “terrorist” act of taking part in an outdoor barbecue.
According to the Abdulrahman’s
grandfather:
To kill a teenager is just
unbelievable, really, and they claim that he is an al-Qaeda militant. It’s
nonsense,” said Nasser al-Awlaki, a former Yemeni agriculture minister who was
Anwar al-Awlaki’s father and the boy’s grandfather.
In fact, if we look at the key passage in Obama’s secret kill
list memo, its legal justification does not simply require connection to
al-Qaeda, but that he be deemed an “operational leader”:
The condition that an
operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against
the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence
that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the
immediate future.
But whether Abdulrahman was a leader of al-Qaeda or not is
really not the point. The point of the secret memo that has everyone up in arms
is that Obama not only does not have to grant American citizens abroad due
process, but that there is no oversight to the kill list; that Obama does not
have to prove to any entity, including his own Administration,
that the person killed presents a threat to the United States.
Of course, the next question becomes: If Obama can suspend due
process and murder American citizens abroad, does he then have the authority to
do the same thing on American soil?
This was the question asked and ignored on the day after the
secret memo was released, whereby Obama abruptly left the press conference,
leaving White House spokesman Jay Carney flapping in the wind. Carney
called Obama’s unchecked power of “surgical drone strikes” “legal, ethical, and
wise,” which sounded very pithy, but never answered the question.
Of course, we already know the answer to this question, as
Obama’s legal justification as stated in the memo does not distinguish whether
the American citizen is living in the United States or abroad.
The Left, as we have seen in the last few days, are coming to
realize what conservatives have known for some time: We have a dictator in the
Oval Office.
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