Why Obama Should be Impeached

From CounterPunch:

If the Constitution is to have any relevance, and if America is to remain a free society, then there is really no alternative: there must be a bill of impeachment drawn up and submitted in the House, and there must at least be a hearing on that bill in the House Judiciary Committee.

The disclosure, by NBC, of a so-called “white paper” by the White House offering the legal justification for the executing of American citizens solely on the authority of the executive branch and the president exposes a White House so blatantly in violation of the Constitution that it simply demands such a hearing.

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Reliance on the AUMF for presidential executions such as that of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son means that President Obama, like President Bush before him, is claiming that the whole world (including the US) is a battlefield, and that he therefore has the absolute authority as Commander in Chief, to kill anyone , anywhere in the world, that he deems to be an enemy or a threat. But such a concept is a complete violation of international law and sovereignty as defined by the UN Charter, a solemn treaty to which the US is a signatory, making it a fundamental part of US law.

There is no way around it. This president is a grave violator of the law and of the US Constitution. Like George W. Bush before him, it is incumbent upon the Congress to establish whether his transgressions rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

More here.

So the President has claimed the authority to summarily execute US citizens without due process, and now we know it for sure.  If you don't understand why this is an unthinkable atrocity, then you're not much of an American.  It doesn't matter if a citizen is accused of terrorism.  It doesn't matter that the White House has declared the entire world to be a "battlefield."  It doesn't matter if such action is deemed to be "effective," whatever that might mean.  It certainly doesn't matter if you think the President is on your side.

The US government must not deprive a citizen of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.  To abandon such a concept is to abandon who we are as a people.  It is to destroy America.

If we have any respect for the Constitution, if we care at all about our identity as a nation, if we respect justice, if we love freedom, the House of Representatives must impeach President Obama and put him on trial in the Senate, right now, just as they should have done with Bush and Cheney for their numerous abuses of power.  That we did not do so with the previous administration is a telling sign that we will very likely not do so with the current administration.  The only possible conclusion to be made from this is that America has already been destroyed.  

And it was a bipartisan action. 

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