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…RULES OF THE THE UNITED STATES”
Mac Slavo
February 19th, 2013
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-new…tates_02192013
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The Department of Homeland Security recently
advanced a plan to deploy “public safety” drones in the skies over America,
an action Congress authorized last year and called for the deployment of
30,000 drone surveillance vehicles by 2020.
While DHS head Janet Napolitano says the
primary mission for domestic drones is for situational awareness in “large
public safety [matters] or disasters”, President Obama may have a different
idea for how best to implement this next generation of frightening
surveillance technology.
Well known for his obsession with remote drone
attacks, reportedly going so far as to personally sit in on unmanned aerial
vehicle missions, the President was recently asked about concerns from
American citizens about the possibility of extra-judicial military drone
strikes within the borders of the United States.
Obama has not only failed to deny that he has
such plans, but makes it clear that his administration is working closely
with Congress to develop a legal framework that will allow the Chief
Executive and his subordinates the leeway to initiate strikes right here at
home.
First of all… there’s never been a drone used
on an American citizen, on American soil.
We respect and have a whole bunch of
safeguards in terms of how we conduct counter-terrorism operations outside of
the United States. The rules outside of the United States are going to be
different than the rules inside of the United States.
…
I am the head of the Executive branch and what
we’ve done so far is to try to work with Congress on oversight issues.
Part of what I’m going to have to work with
Congress on is to make sure that whatever it is we’re providing Congress,
that we have mechanisms to also make sure that the public understands what’s
going on, what the constraints are, what the legal parameters are.
That’s something that I take very seriously.
I am not somebody who believes that the
President has the authority to do whatever he wants or whatever she wants,
whenever they want, just under the guise of counter-terrorism.
There have to be checks and balances on it.
One can only conclude that military and law
enforcement drone strikes will soon be business as usual, and likely the
preferred method for dealing with, as the Patriot Act outlines, those who
“intimidate or coerce the civilian population” or attempt to “influence
government policy” – pretty much anyone who disagrees with what the
government is doing.
As Chris Carrington rightly points out about
pre-emptive government prosecution, under the National Defense Authorization
Act “individuals who have committed no crime can be arrested and incarcerated
at the will of the government without proven cause.” Will this new legal
framework now expand on Patriot Act and NDAA to allow for a militarized
government response to potential threats?
For those who would call for such extreme
action as firing a military grade remote Hellfire missile at a domestic
target, as the media recently suggested we should do during the hunt for
Chris Dorner, consider that Global Research recently reported that over 40%
of drone casualties are innocents – often children.
But such collateral damage would never happen
in America, right? The NYPD, for example, would never randomly open fire in
the middle of a busy street and shoot civilians. Likewise, the LAPD would
never overreact and send a barrage of bullets at two innocent newspaper
carriers who happen to be in a vehicle matching the description of what a
suspect may be driving.
With drones, such incidents would be reduced
or all but eliminated right? This legal framework being developed by
President Obama’s administration with the help of Congress would ensure that
no innocents will be killed, right? Law enforcement and military would never
target criminals or terrorists if it would endanger innocent Americans who
might be in their direct vicinity, right?
And never would they be used to target
American citizens unless actionable intelligence of an impending threat was
real and confirmed by, as President Obama notes, a “whole bunch of
safeguards.”
To paraphrase President Obama, Diane Feinstein
and the many Congressional representatives who support a safer America, it’s
time we start disarming those who have access to these weapons of mass
destruction. These military style assault weapons have no use in hunting or
sporting, and have no business being on the streets of America.
Source:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?423488-Obama-Moves-To-Authorize-Domestic-Drone-Strikes
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