Leaked DOJ White Paper Gives Chilling Glimpse Of Drone Policy

Flying high over head, out of sight, without a sound being heard by people on the ground an un-manned drone aircraft circles and closes in on the target.  From a long distance away the operator watches his screen until the shot is perfect and squeezes the trigger.  A flash on the screen followed by body parts flying about confirms the kill, of an American citizen, targeted for execution by a single government official.

While that scenario might seem pure fantasy, it is not.  According to a leaked Department of Justice White Paper when and who has the the right to target and kill American citizens has been defined.

[T]he confidential Justice Department “white paper” introduces a more
expansive definition of self-defense or imminent attack than described 
by Brennan or Holder in their public speeches.  It refers, for
example, to what it calls a “broader concept of imminence” than actual
intelligence about any ongoing plot against the U.S. homeland.

“The condition that an operational  leader present an ‘imminent’
threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the
United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S.
persons and interests will take place in the immediate future,” the memo
states.

Instead, it says,  an “informed, high-level” official of the U.S.
government may determine that the targeted American  has been “recently”
involved in “activities” posing a threat of a violent attack and “there
is  no evidence suggesting that he has renounced or abandoned such
activities.” The memo does not define “recently” or “activities.” [NBC]

Wayne LaPierre made a good point Sunday when he told Chris Wallace that you cannot trust this Obama administration.  They said that Obamacare did not create a tax, until they needed it to be a tax.  It makes one sick to think how they might use and justify the language of this “white paper”.

Here, in this piece of self serving legal advice from Eric Holder to Barack Obama, the Department of Justice has concluded that an American citizen can be targeted for assassination by an “informed, high level” official even if he poses no “imminent” threat to the nation but has been involved “recently” in some activity (undefined) posing a threat of violent attack.  Now what might all of this mean?

Let’s say that a high level government official thinks that gun ownership and the accumulation of ammunition by a group of citizens poses a threat of violent attack and that certain people who have advocated for the right of citizens to keep and bear those arms has recently been involved in a movement to advance those rights and as far as this informed government official knows there isn’t any evidence that the citizen has renounced or abandoned his activities.

Now go back and read the first paragraph above.  BOOM!

Now where have we heard something like this before?

On the 15 of April 1775, when General Thomas Gage, British Military
Governor of Massachusetts, was ordered to destroy the rebel’s military
stores at Concord. To accomplish this he assembled the “Flanking units”,
including Light Infantry and Grenadiers, from his Boston Garrison. In
charge he put Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith and Marine Major John
Pitcairn. He also composed a relief column under the command of Lord
Hugh Percy to leave 6 hours after the main column. In an attempt at
secrecy he did not tell his officers his plan until the last minute. The
problem with his security measures were that Boston had become a glass
fishbowl. All rebel eyes were watching to see the British’ next action,
and when the garrison committed to an action, the Americans knew their
every move.

At midnight on the 19th of April the British column,
consisting of 650-900 troops left Boston, crossed the Charles River,
followed closely by the alarm rider Paul Revere. As the British marched
towards Concord, the entire countryside had been alerted to their
presence, and rebel militia was deployed to meet them.

Until this time there was no armed resistance to the British
that had resulted in loss of British life. Several Months earlier, Gage
had attempted to destroy miliary arms at Salem and met with resistance
but no shots were fired, and the British retreated without completing
their objective. Lexington Militia Captain John Parker had heard of the
events at Salem, and collected his men on Lexington Green to face the
British column.

At dawn Smith’s advanced parties under the command of Major
Pitcairn, arrived at Lexington Green to see a group of armed Militia in
formation across the Green. Pitcairn ordered the militia, led by John
Parker, to be surrounded and disarmed. In response Parker ordered his
men to disperse. Then a shot rang out. No one really knows who fired
first, but the British, hearing the shot, fired upon the small group of
militia, killing 8, and wounding 10 more. The militia then retreated
into the woods to avoid the Briti sh fire.

So started the first battle in the American Revolutionary War.[WPI]

Of course Paul Revere could not sound the alarm if the shot came from a silent and unseen drone.

Unless of course you share this message throughout the countryside now, before that first shot is fired.