Vacations are Done; Time to go back to Work

Citizenship, like freedom, should and is not free of responsibility. With the mid-term elections fast approaching, all informed Americans should be engaged in ensuring that our national government remains fully accountable to the governed. Crucial issues that are front and center include federal spending, taxes, debt levels and immigration.

I am now requesting Elite Members also engage their federal representatives and candidates on an issue currently getting zero attention in the public square - targeted killings of suspected terrorists - ACLU appellation. While showing immense distain for everything Bush, the current Administration has taken to Bush-originated Drone Bombings in Pakistan, and elsewhere, as if this taking of life was totally consequence free. Possibly it is, U say, as these terminations w/. extreme prejudice affect only a few individuals at one time. Not so fast, loyal listeners.

Due to the absence of debate on lawful application of targeted terrorist killings inside the political branches, the ACLU last week sought to invoke the federal courts to control this War Power of the President. A more unworkable means to establish national policy can not be devised. Accordingly, to prevent unaccountable judges, with zero war fighting expertise, from running the Pentagon and CIA, we must demand that Congress address this issue, that if left to the Judiciary could cripple our nation's military defense against Radical Islam, making it exclusively a criminal prosecution enterprise.

ACLU states: "In zones of armed conflict, targeted killing can be a lawful tactic." ACLU wants a Judge to designate the exact geographic boundaries of the ongoing war, so that terrorists will be told where to move to be given full immunity from attack in such sanctuaries. ACLU states: "Innocent people will be executed, w/o. criminal charges, trial or any due process whatsoever. A wrongly imprisoned suspect may eventually be set free. But there is no recourse from a missile." In particular, ACLU demands that the court declare it is unconstitutional to bomb any location while targeting an American citizen, who can not be deprived of his life w/o. due process of law. Inevitable and Immediate Result: No foreign terrorist will live w/o. at least one sympathetic US citizen holding his hand - perfect buddy system for guaranteed survival.

All that said, completely uncontrolled federal authority to kill identified enemies of the nation is wholly unacceptable, as we know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Accordingly, our Nation of Laws needs to have the lawful scope of targeted killings codified in a federal law, with the most intense scrutiny and oversight by Congress. War is too important to be left to the Generals or the Courts - to be waged consistent with our moral principles, we the people must govern ourselves in this matter of life and death. So let your voice be heard.