License to Kill

Well, as if President Obama needed to give voters more reasons not to reelect him, word has just come out that he has ordered the unlawful killing of two American citizens.  This is not the first such scandal, however.  In particular the DOJ has been carrying out especially effective measures to ensure that we see Obama as the worst attack on America since 9/11.  Cases in point, the DOJ refuses to prosecute blacks for voter intimidation and has decided to attempt to tarnish the reputation of gun shops around the US in operation fast and furious.  And now, two American citizens have been divested  of their very lives without due process of law.  Basically, the President ordered them to be killed.  Although I do not claim to be an expert on the methods of distortion used by Liberals to justify their actions and claim that they are constitutional, I will say that I can not see anything in the constitution that gives the President the authority to kill citizens of his choice.  After all,

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. --- US Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 1

Now granted, that was in reference to the states, but you get the idea.  According to original intent the President isn't allowed to do anything he isn't specifically given the authority to do anyhow.  If this sounds like something that one would expect to find in Nazi Germany rather than the United States that's because it is.  (But let the record show that I never compared Obama to Hitler and that I'm not a member of the Tea Party [not that I wouldn't mind associating myself with them].)

Now don't get me wrong.  I don't like the things that Samir Khan and Anwar Awlaki were doing either, but that doesn't justify Obama killing them.  As far as I can tell they didn't pose any immediate threat to anyone and the only reason I've heard that attempts to justify their killing is that they were utilizing their freedom of speech (and even if they did they should have been arrested for it and tried in court, not killed on the spot by Obama).  The point is that even though they were obviously encouraging terrorism, giving the President the power to order the death of anyone he deems a threat is rather unnerving.  Giving the President a license to kill is essentially demolishing every freedom that Americans now enjoy.  It is to annihilate every freedom that Americans have been fighting and dying for for the past 3 centuries.  I don't know about you, but I'd rather opt for the slower, more traditional methods that liberals have been using to steel our freedom rather than this fast track to Tyranny.  I guess I'm just another one of those crazy radicals.