Who will drones target? Who in the US will decide?

White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure to vet both military and CIA targets.

The move concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war zones at the White House.

The process, which is about a month old, means Brennans staff consults the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies as to who should go on the list, making a previous military-run review process in place since 2009 less relevant, according to two current and three former U.S. officials aware of the evolution in how the government targets terrorists….

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Guest Post: US Government Proposes Law Making It Illegal For Them To Kill You

Last Friday, US Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced HR 6357, a bill which aims to ‘prohibit the extrajudicial killing of United States citizens’ by the federal government. In other words, in the Land of the Free, they need to pass a law to prevent the government from indiscriminately murdering its own citizens.

Now if this doesn’t give one reason to pause and consider the distortions of liberty that have taken place in western civilization, I don’t know what will.

Think about it:

• Does a free society send government hit men to eliminate anyone they perceive to be an enemy of the state?
• Does a free society have hundreds of police agencies, each with the authority to deprive a man of his life, liberty and property in their sole discretion?
• Does a free society have hundreds of thousands of laws, codes, rules, regulations, and policies which effectively criminalize nearly every aspect of one’s existence?
• Does a free society lead the world in prison population?
• Does a free society hunt down criminals and terrorists by treating its citizens like criminals and terrorists?
• Does a free society tell its citizens what foods they are / are not allowed to consume?
• Does a free society steal your money at gunpoint to buy bombs that they drop by remote control on brown people in faraway lands?
• Does a free society debase its currency and plunder the purchasing power of its citizens?
• Does a free society saddle unborn generations with obligations they never signed up to bear?
• Does a free society award near total control of the economy, the money supply, and everything tied to it, to a tiny elite few?
• Does a free society brainwash its citizens into believing that they live in a free society? (at least the Chinese know they’re not free…)

Ask yourself, are you really living in a free society? Are you free? If not, why not? What else could possibly be more important?

It takes courage to answer honestly. But once you realize the truth and begin to see the system for what it is, it can be a liberating and life-changing experience.

You’ll find that there are places where you can live free in this world. There are ways to preserve your dignity, your privacy, your livelihood. You’ll find that you can build great camaraderie and mutual trust with like-minded souls because you share the same values, not the same color passport.

My guess is that you’re reading this because you’ve already started down the road to freedom. But you might feel alone… intellectually isolated in a sea of automatons.

You’re not alone. More and more people are waking up every day and beginning to realize the incredible fraud that has been perpetrated against them. When enough of them figure it out, this system will be finished.

That’s why I fundamentally believe that today is one of the most exciting times to be alive since the French Revolution. And we’re just getting warmed up.

If you have any friends or loved ones who still exemplify that self-deluded, bombastic serf mentality, I encourage you to pass this along to them… and challenge them to answer honestly.

via Guest Post: US Government Proposes Law Making It Illegal For Them To Kill You | ZeroHedge

TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room

What would have likely been a routine flight out of a Florida airport this weekend ended with a woman being sent to the emergency room after TSA agents insisted on groping a traumatized rape victim in a security pat-down that put her in the hospital.

A user of the online Web forum FlyerTalk.com writes that his wife was admitted to the ER for treatment after agents with the Transportation Security Administration cited an “anomaly” in her bra as a reason to subject her to an intrusive closed-door screening on Sunday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

The woman, described by her husband as the victim of brutal rape, was reportedly being transferred to a psychiatric ward for further treatment after what the man says was a “horrific experience…..”

via TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room — RT

Third party time?

Three months before the presidential election Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the sour state of America. However nothing can stop stop Congress from going on vacation – this is something both establishment party members agree upon. So may be its time for new faces on the political scene? Brian Doherty of the Reason Magazine joins the discussion.

Obama’s 2nd-term scheme to disarm border agents

An explosive book released today documents how progressive organizations behind White House policy have crafted specific, second-term plans for President Obama to disarm U.S. border agents while imposing policies that could impede the agents’ ability to arrest infiltrators.

This is in addition to plans for amnesty to millions more illegal aliens living inside the U.S. and for government agencies to immediately register as voters the new Americans who would receive amnesty.

These schemes, and many more, are documented in “Fool Me Twice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed.”

The book by New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott uncovers the template for Obama’s next four years – the actual, extensive plans created by Obama’s own top advisers and progressive strategists.

“Fool Me Twice” unveils all the main areas of Obama’s second-term domestic policy onslaught – jobs, wages, health care, immigration “overhaul,” electoral “reform,” national energy policy, Pentagon plans and more….

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Obama SuperPAC: Mitt Romney Pretty Much Killed This Mans Wife

Democrats keep crowing about Barack Obamas “commanding” electoral college lead its a less than a mile wide and an inch deep, but for all their apparent cockiness, they strangely continue to go thermonuclear on Mitt Romney.  This ad from Obamas SuperPAC doesnt seem desperate at all:

Recapping: Mitt Romney fired this poor guy, he lost his healthcare, then his wife died of cancer — oh, and Romney couldnt care less.  As distasteful as it feels to debunk a political ad that exploits a womans tragic death, Obamas close allies are ultimately responsible for the content they produce for public consumption.  Aside from its jaw-droppingly vicious implications, there are numerous substantive problems with this spot…

via Obama SuperPAC: Mitt Romney Pretty Much Killed This Mans Wife – Guy Benson

Obama Plays Politics with Historic Drought

Last week, Senate Democrats played politics with the drought by not agreeing to the short-term drought relief measures passed by the House. Now, President Barack Obama is playing politics with the drought as well.

As Reuters notes, Obama on Tuesday “called on Congress to pass a farm bill that will send disaster aid to more farmers and ranchers.”

Obama was able to call on Congress to act because the Senate did not agree to the short-term measures the House passed before Congress took off for a five-week recess.

Farmers and cattle ranchers who have been most impacted by the drought and who need immediate relief now face more uncertainty due to the Senate’s inaction.

But the Senate’s inaction allows Obama again to run against “a Republican Congress” even though Democrats control the Senate and present himself as a peacemaker who achieves results to voters….

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