Denial of Airspace to Bolivian Leader Resonates at U.N.

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12. Calm down. Its OK. Obama said so.

And, after all, his word carries the force of law not just in our former democracy, but throughout the world

The New York Times' recent revelation that President Obama, operating off a government "kill list," has been personally directing who should be targeted for death by military drones (unmanned aerial assault vehicles) merely pushes us that much closer to that precipitous drop-off to authoritarianism. Should we fail to recognize and rectify the danger in allowing a single individual to declare himself the exception to the rule of law and assume the role of judge, jury, and executioner, we will have no one else to blame when we plunge once and for all into the abyss that is tyranny.

more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/terror-tuesdays-kill-list_b_1606371.html

Currently Obama claims and exercises the extralegal power to have anyone, anywhere in the world killed on his decision alone. He claims, and exercises, the unconstitutional powers of warantless search, secret and indefinite detention, and many other violations not only of the rule of law, but of basic human rights.

I am so disheartened that the majority of the people in this country embrace the false promise of security offered by our increasingly totalitarian state. There seems no understanding of freedom, of justice - or of history.