Turley: President Obama “says that he can kill you on his own discretion”
Hat tip Washington’s Blog
Noted constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley was on C-SPAN yesterday, and he had some pretty scary things to say about the current state of civil liberties under President Obama:
President Obama has just stated a policy that he can have any American citizen killed without any charge, without any review, except his own. If he’s satisfied that you are a terrorist, he says that he can kill you anywhere in the world including in the United States.
Two of his aides just … reaffirmed they believe that American citizens can be killed on the order of the President anywhere including the United States.
You’ve now got a president who says that he can kill you on his own discretion. He can jail you indefinitely on his own discretion
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I don’t think the the Framers ever anticipated that [the American people would be so apathetic]. They assumed that people would hold their liberties close, and that they wouldn’t relax …
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