DRONES

An Easter message to Barack Obama from various religious leaders, including my friend, and a contributor to this blog, Paul Zahl.

My personal objection to Obama’s drone policy has to do with its opacity and lack of judicial (or any other kind of) review but the more fundamental objections in this message need to be part of the conversation, too.

HYPOCRITE IN CHIEF

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Barack Obama should be forced by law to wear at all times a small drone-replica lapel pin instead of an American-flag lapel pin. Wearing the drone pin he would find himself unable to say with a straight face half the things he says about the “rights” of Americans, by which he actually means the rights of Americans which he personally, in his infinite and infallible wisdom, chooses to respect.

OUR FÜHRER

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Our Führer claims the right to decide, personally, which of us will live and which of us will die.  But he is a good Führer — we know he will never kill any of us who are good, he will only kill those of us who are bad, and he will never make a mistake in determining who is good and who is bad.

We are lucky to have a Führer who is so wise!  If he weren’t so wise, so infallible in his judgments, we might be tempted to fear him!

HUSTLE

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Barack Obama has been the most relentless enemy of the Constitution in American history — there won’t be much of it left when he leaves office — so I found it hard to take anything he said today seriously after he perjured himself before God and man by swearing to preserve, protect and defend that document. He is the great Used Car Salesman of American Presidents.

OBAMA PLEDGES NOT TO KILL ANY CHILDREN FOR THREE DAYS

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In an emotional news conference, sharing the stage with children who had written in to him about their fears concerning guns, President Obama announced a sweeping plan to curb gun violence in America.

To demonstrate his commitment to this issue, Obama has pledged not to kill any children in the Middle East with drones for 72 hours.  “He’s just not going to do it,” said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, “even if the children are playing in the vicinity of a high-value target.”

Dec. 17 airpower summary: Reapers touch enemy forces

Critics have pointed out that since the details of drone attacks are classified, there will be no way of knowing for sure whether or not the President keeps his pledge not to kill any children for three days — the President’s supporters insist, however, that “it’s the thought that counts”.

PSYCHOPATHS

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Elected officials who are willing to use the debt ceiling crisis of 2013 to destroy the American economy and the world economy in order to make an ideological point or to exercise power they have not been able to gain through the ballot box are not “Tea Party leaders” or “right-wing Republicans” or “fiscal conservatives” — they are psychopaths. They should never be referred to in any other terms.