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Topic: This Isn´t Hard, Mr. President: Do You Think You Can Kill Us on American Soil or Not? |
This Isn´t Hard, Mr. President: Do You Think You Can Kill Us on American Soil or Not?
Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 2/16/2013 5:47:58 AM
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| Does President Obama think that he has the power to kill American citizens on U.S. soil? If he accuses a guy in the Arizona desert or rural Montana of being an Al Qaeda terrorist, is it ever kosher to send a drone over to blow him up, as was done to Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen killed in Yemen? Or is it never okay to drone strike an American citizen to death here in the United States? It´s an easy question. Answering it wouldn´t jeopardize national security in any way. So why do Obama Administration officials keep dodging it? Asked the question
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/16/2013 5:54:40 AM (No. 9179347)
They´re dodging the question because drone strikes on American soil is in Obama´s bag of tricks down the road.The targets won´t have a damn thing to do with alqueda but good ole hate groups.Maybe just being anti-government will be enough.Anti-government means you disagree with liberal edicts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NuGoddess, 2/16/2013 6:10:47 AM (No. 9179358)
´´Do you think you can kill Americans on U.S. soil?´´ would seem to be a more important question.
A better question: ´´Has this administration already ordered Americans killed on U.S. soil?´´ I believe it already has.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ladychatalie, 2/16/2013 6:12:42 AM (No. 9179361)
Conor suggests at the end of this article that Paul might tatoo this question to his derriere to get the MSM to pay attention to this important question. I think they won´t mention it unless Obama drones someone beloved by the MSM.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/16/2013 6:28:12 AM (No. 9179377)
Barry & his cohort Nap-a-long have both said they would not use armed drones in the U.S. However, they are both known liars and always do the opposite of what they say, which means Yes, they would used armed drones on U.S. citizens in the U.S. I have absolutely no doubt about it. They´ll use that new FBI group trolling for people who are against Barry & Co. as their kill list.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 2/16/2013 7:29:43 AM (No. 9179466)
To answer this question would indeed confirm what WTP already know. Oh dark won is the biggest terrorist of them all. He is not one of us and certainly has no qualms about picking WTP off one by one or in mass Just as long as the job gets done and he is not seen as the person who ordered it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo, 2/16/2013 8:00:42 AM (No. 9179513)
Interestingly enough their was an article that I read this week, talking about authorities asking for clearance to operate drones in the U.S. Coincidence?
We already know Obama has no trouble in being an accomplice to murder; ask 300 dead Mexicans. Ask a U.S. Ambassador, abandoned to terrorists. The question is: once Obama gets a taste for it, will he sit in his situation room like a kid with a video game, and proceed to slaughter everyone who has dissed him?
Stalin is said to have gone regularly to the Russian Operas and Ballets, then gone a short ways down the street during intermissions to personally torture dissidents at the near-by prison. Obama strikes me as being of a similar mindset. He simply hasn´t built up the courage to act on it yet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
franq, 2/16/2013 8:13:30 AM (No. 9179543)
Where is John Connor? Pew-pew-pew! Pew-pew-pew!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
uno_thatguy, 2/16/2013 8:42:22 AM (No. 9179616)
It´s happened in the past: Ruby Ridge, Waco. Now it´s hussein´s turn! Just give him time. (Oops! Benghazi already happened. There´s blood in the water. Let the feeding frenzy begin/continue!)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Grambo, 2/16/2013 8:45:39 AM (No. 9179621)
P.S.
Yes, we have our second amendment guns, but now he has drones.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
happywarrior, 2/16/2013 9:00:17 AM (No. 9179642)
Poor 0bama is struggling with this question every day, just like he struggles with the question of being President, not Emperor.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Tusker, 2/16/2013 10:08:25 AM (No. 9179826)
I have no qualms about droning traitors but Boy-Boy should as the first order of business will be to drone himself and his entire Commnist party, aka Democrats.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Democracy First, 2/16/2013 10:18:49 AM (No. 9179850)
Remember, kiddies, the hag screeched at us and pounded the desk, yelling, " what difference does it maaaake, anywaaaay?????" And the LSM rolled over and humped Ø´s leg again. And the people laughed and tuned in to Honey Boo Boo and watched tv to see who the Katrashinan hoes are screwing... No one cared rhat our country has been hijacked my marxists. Like oneposter said, we may have our guns , but the Ø, Butch Napolitano and Val-Jar have drones.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas, 2/16/2013 10:34:24 AM (No. 9179883)
Ask the AG for for an opinion.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner, 2/16/2013 10:35:37 AM (No. 9179889)
It is not even a stretch to imagine these people considering a crowd of Tea Partiers at a political gathering to be a threat to, and about to attack the US. Listen to the aggregate bs spouted by various members of this regime - and be concerned.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
justavoter, 2/16/2013 10:42:18 AM (No. 9179908)
If drones were available during the Ruby Ridge or Waco incident, what do you think would have happened? Hmmmmmmm
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