The American Tea Man

Just recently, DOJ documents were released, revealing what the administration can do with drones against specifically American citizens.  The memo is 16 pages long and gives justification in performing drone strikes on American citizens.  The specific paragraph in which the document mentions carrying a ‘lethal’ operation is at the end of the DOJ’s ‘White Page’ document, and reads as follows. -

In conclusion, it would be lawful for the United States to conduct a lethal operation outside the United States against a U.S. citizen who is a senior, operational leader of al-Qaeda or an associated force of al-Qaeda without violating the Constitution of the federal statutes discussed in this white paper under the following conditions: (1) an informed, high level official of the U.S. government has determined that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States; (2) capture is infeasible, and the United States continues to monitor whether capture becomes feasible; and (3) the operation is conducted in a manner consistent with the four fundamental principles of the laws of war governing the use of force.  As stated earlier, this paper does not attempt to determine the minimum requirements necessary to render such an operation lawful, nor does it assess what might be required to render a lethal operation against a U.S. citizen lawful in other circumstances.  It concludes only that the stated conditions would be sufficient to make lawful a lethal operation in a foreign country directed against a U.S. citizen with the characteristics described above.

If you would like to read the entire document, then you can follow this LINK.

This paragraph in itself is rather scary.  Looking at it on the surface, it looks as though it is targeted at al-Qaeda and other such terrorists.  But when it states that the targeted individual ‘poses a imminent threat of violent attack’…that is when it starts to get fuzzy.  It casts a large net and makes you wonder what people this government would think is a possible threat.  As Rush Limbaugh mentioned when he was talking about the document,  you don’t really have to be a part of al-Qaeda.  What is necessary is if you hate America and you could be linked as a ‘associated force’.

It is not all that surprising that these documents are leaking in the beginning of Pres. Obama’s second term as president.  I admit that it is not everyday that a secret document is leaked.  But, this document reveals something.  The administration has an open hostility towards terrorists and those who they have pegged as terrorists.

Below is a clip from Greta Van Susteren’s show in which she plays the clip of Rush Limbaugh’s reaction and interview with former Sen. Rick Santorum.

Rush makes two good points.  If this document was in place during Nixon’s term, then he could have legally had Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground taken out, he could have taken out the New Black Panther Party.  And also, that when Bush was in office, the Democrat side had heated arguments over the water boarding that went on.  And yet, this has not received much of a peep from the left.

I want all of you to be on guard and keep an eye out.  As you know I am not a conspiracy theorist, but this document does raise questions.  Specifically about the recent tragic home explosion in Indianapolis, Indiana which is being purported as a gas explosion.  But most are suspicious and wonder if it was possibly a drone strike.  There is no factual evidence of this at the moment, but again, the document does raise the question of the possibility that the United States has already used this document.

As I’ve said, these are trying times that we live in, and we must trust and pray that we can make it through.