"Can The President Kill You?"

If the president can kill an American in Yemen, can he do so in Peoria?

By a former Superior Court Judge of New Jersey, Andrew P. Napolitano.

In The Wanderer Catholic newspaper, Thursday, March 15, 2012.

"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder argued in a speech a week ago at Northwestern University Law School that the president may substitute the traditionally understood due process -- a public jury trial -- with the president's own novel version of it; [and] that would be a secret deliberation about killing.

"Without mentioning the name of the American the president recently ordered killed, Holder suggested that the president's careful consideration of the case of New Mexico - born Anwar al - Awlaki constituted a substituted form of due process.

"Instead of presenting evidence of al - Awlaki's alleged crimes to a grand jury and seeking an indictment and an arrest and a trial, the president presented the evidence to a small group of unnamed advisers, and then he secretly decided that al - Awlaki was such an imminent threat to America 10,000 miles away that he had to be killed.

"This is a logic more worthy of Joseph Stalin than Thomas Jefferson.

"It effectively says that the president is above the constitution and the rule of law, and that he can reject his oath to uphold both.

"If the president can kill an American in Yemen, can he do so in Peoria?

"Even the British king, from whose tyrannical grasp the American colonists seceded, did not claim such powers.

"And we fought a revolution against him ..."

Humm .. is that so? My, oh my! :)