Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 6, 2013

In a letter to Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that there are circumstances in which ?it would be necessary and appropriate ? for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the United States.?

That claim was made in response to Senator Paul?s inquiry as to whether the President ?has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without a trial.? That question was posed by Senator Paul to John Brennan, Obama?s nominee to be Director of the CIA. Brennan has been a key intelligence adviser to the president, and his role has included compiling so-called ?kill lists? of suspected terrorists.

During a March 6 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder staked out an even more alarming position, claiming that Congress cannot forbid the president from ordering summary executions on American soil. Doing so, Holder stated, would undermine the president?s authority as Commander-in-Chief of the military.

Domestic use of the military as a law enforcement agency is forbidden by the Third Amendment and the Posse Commitatus Act. This means nothing to the budding Stalinist occupying the Oval Office.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.