Obama Administration: U.S. Forces Can Assassinate Americans Believed To Be Involved In Terrorist Activity

Max Eternity - President Barack Obama has issued a directive authorizing the CIA to murder--assassinate Americans abroad who the President and/or the CIA deem a terrorist. No trial--no conviction--no lawyer--just state sanctioned assassination. Is this what we asked for when this nation elected Obama--a total disregard to due process, habeas corpus--undermining the very essence of what American freedom and democracy is about?

In the US we don't assassinate people, we're better than that. And we certainly don't assassinate Americans, regardless of where they are living at the time, or for what they have been accused of.

I mean, at the end of the day, what's to stop the CIA and Obama from killing you or I, with no trial, no lawyer, no proof?

People have the right to a lawyer. Obama should know this, because he happens to be a lawyer--a constitutional lawyer, no less. And yet, exactly like his predecessor, Bush, whom the Democrats extolled for his lawless reign from beginning to end, where is the Left's outrage now? And myself being a Black American, another thing I'm wondering is, why are black civil rights leaders and other influential Blacks, save Cornell West, Tavis Smiley and Maxine Waters, sitting silent on the sidelines as Obama serves up another Bush term of colossal, domestic failure and horrific, imperialistic foreign policy?

What the hell kind of double standard is this? And aside from the symbolism of having a Black in the White House, who can argue with a straight face that President Obama is any better than Resident Bush?

Helen Thomas and Michael Moore have already said Obama is "The War President", and we already know that he puts the interest of Wall Street above Main Street, as he has so demonstrated with the trillion dollar private bank bailout, and his corporate giveaway to the insurance and drug companies; attempting to package that bloated pig with a drawer full of lipstick.

Amy Goodman at Democracy Now reports: