Political Assassination

Speaking to an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said, that the Obama administration’s killing of a U.S. Citizen in Yemen was an impeachable offense and that “we have crossed that barrier from republic to dictatorship.”

He harshly criticized Obama for approving last week’s predator drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a prominent al-Qaida figure linked by U.S. intelligence agencies to two unsuccessful attacks on U.S.-bound airplanes. Samir Kahn, a second American killed in the attack, was the editor of the online al-Qaida magazine Inspire. Paul suggested the government could begin killing American journalists with impunity.

“Can you imagine being put on a list because you’re a threat?” Paul told a crowd of 60 journalists and their guests at a luncheon. “What’s going to happen when they come to the media? What if the media becomes a threat? ... This is the way this works. It’s incrementalism.

“We have crossed that barrier from republic to dictatorship, to tyranny to empire,” he said. “… The Government can now assassinate people without due process, American citizens, and people cheer it?"

Paul continued in a question-and-answer session: "But you ask me if it’s an impeachable offense, and it is! Just ignoring the Fifth Amendment and assassinating American citizens without due process. They won’t even tell us what the rules are! Oh, but he’s a threat! Can you imagine being put on a list because you’re a threat? What’s going to happen when they come to the media? What if the media becomes a threat? Or a professor becomes a threat?”

Paul cheered the actions of the Wall Street protestors and predicted total erosion of the System...

Methinks that we crossed the line from republic to dictatorship a long time ago....