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MSNBC’s Scarborough Skewers Obama’s ‘Chilling’ Drone Program: U.S. Gov’t Is Saying ‘We Can Kill You’

Feb. 6, 2013 10:44am Becket Adams

Joe Scarborough and MSNBC Panel Go After American King Obama & His Chilling Drone Program

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Wednesday weighed in on a recently-leaked memo that purportedly shows how the Obama administration justifies using drone strikes to target U.S. citizens.

“Here you have something truly chilling,” said Scarborough of the recently leaked drone memo. “Here you have the United States government saying, we can kill you, American citizen. You have no constitutional right to a jury by your peers. You have no constitutional right even to probable cause or to due process. You have no right to a lawyer. You have no right to counsel. You have no right to anything.”

“If we suspect you, just suspect you, without evidence, that you were thinking about committing an act against the United States of America, we can kill you,” he adds.

The MSNBC host continued:

There are no checks and there are no balances. We can kill you. We can pick you out of a list and drop a bomb on you, and not only can we kill you, we can then kill your 16-year-old son who is not even affiliated with al Qaeda, and then we can blame it on the father for us having to kill the son.

Scarborough then added that Republicans should go after the drone program as an abuse of executive power.

“Forget Republicans. How about liberals and Democrats? I mean, can you imagine if George W. Bush had proposed this idea?” asked former Bush advisor Mark McKinnon, adding later that he thinks the program is a “good idea.”

“You think it’s okay to kill Americans without probable cause?” Scarborough asked. “You think it’s a good idea?”

“Thinking about the threats against us and the Machiavellian plots, I’m willing to err on the side of giving a little bit of latitudes,” McKinnon replied.

“This kid, this 16-year-old kid goes out to a restaurant and he gets killed because of his father,” Scarborough said, referring to the drone strike that took out Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. “That causes you no concern? Constitutionally?”

“I err on giving the government latitude on this one,” McKinnon repeated.

Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjørn Jagland hands the diploma and medal to Nobel Peace Prize laureate, U.S. President Barack Obama during the Nobel Peace prize award ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo on December 10, 2009. (Getty Images)

MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham jumped in to explain that one of the reasons the British lost control of the colonies was because “the rule of law could not simply be in the hands of a king and could not be arbitrarily applied and that’s precisely what this is: it’s in the hands of an American king.”

“An American king who actually gets the list of people who he decides who should be killed and who should not be killed and he goes down that list, and there’s so many things that are chilling here,” Scarborough said, adding that were it Bush president, there would be impeachment hearings right now.

“All of Washington, all of Manhattan, the entire press corps would focus its intention on this unprecedented overreach,” he added.

He continued:

When you kill somebody without probable cause or evidence, that’s right there, and then you make it an American citizen who is protected by the United States Constitution, and suddenly that raises it to an entirely new level. And the U.S. government can decide which American citizens it’s going to kill without probable cause?

“That is frightening. And, of course, the next step is the killing starts taking place on American soil. We’re not far from that,” he concluded.

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Comments (117)

Antares2000
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:25pm
Yup…and when they decide they want to do away with their own politcal opposition here in the states, they’ll claim they’re terrorists and have them terminated. It’s a very slippery slope. Anyone who is ok with this REALLY needs to get their head examined.

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SOUNDTHETRUMPET
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:48pm
Human life means nothing to the godless heathen libs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URFAwFvlPs

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NAVCOMM42
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:40pm
“Don’t Drone Me Bro!”

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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:29pm
When you go outside the United States of America, you check in your onstitutional rights at the border, get your rights back when you return.

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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:44pm
  When you go outside the United States of America, you check in your constitutional rights at the border, get your rights back when you return
  
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battles
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:26pm
Message to the godless Obama regime:
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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zombiestopper
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:11pm
King Obama Has sentenced you to death……bye bye. I am actually impressed that this was discussed on MSNBC

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OniKaze
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:55pm
Wake up people…. The Boy-King is doing anything he can to eliminate his opposition… Once he gets this lined up, then he can “suppress” any opposition with fear of force to him writing an executive order for his Third Reich, I mean term…. Sorry….

Anyone who doesn’t see this coming, is just simply not paying attention to the last 5 years…

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Cymry
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:47pm
the indonesian thinks he has carte blanche. is there anyone in federal authority that can stop this juggernaut of chaos before it truely destroys america?

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Caballosinnombre
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:46pm
It sounds like a veiled threat to anyone who thinks that guns can protect people from tyranny. If there is an uprising then the government can simply send a drone. They can always justify collateral damage.

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- OniKaze
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:56pm
  Justify?? No No…
  
  They won’t bother with that… They will just lie and say that something “else” happened…
  
  Why would they start telling the truth now??
  
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bkbobo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:38pm
And they wonder why we don’t want to give up our guns. This is exactly why the founders put in the second amendment!!!

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:27pm
If the Founders could come back to life they’d kick every single American square in the ass for not protecting the precious gift they (and God) gave us.

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jrcess
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:24pm
Obama , Hitler, Stalin, one and the same, will kill their own people.

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Arc
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:15pm
Finally……some misguided newstalkers are coming out of the fog……….Hey Joe, branch out a little, investigate some of the drivel you are fed……..the ” age of enlightenment ” never grows old. Pass your recently acquired information on to O Donnell , Maddow, Schultz, and Matthews.

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dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:03pm
well now, msnbc, you still think gun bans are a good idea?

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2bfree
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:56am
He is concerned about the big governmanet killing you, but NOT converned about big government taking your money, taking your healthcare, taking your guns, etc… what is wrong with these people? I so wish they would use thier brain instead of letting it lay dormant.

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- WilliamORights
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:39pm
  These are the key points. We are fascinated by the 2nd Amendment travisty. Meanwhile, interest rates are zero, taxes are higher, affordable heath care is all but eliminated, our autos have become golf carts,our homes have been stolen (higher real estate taxes more important cause than mortgage interest rates btw), contract law has been debauched, freedom of speech is gone, habeous corpus will completely collapse as Guantanemo comes on stream to hold you rebel rousers and your vote is diluted to meaningless drival by the illegal lawn maintenance people.It is too late to undue the damage.
  
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hauschild
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:55am
I think the real question to pose is why this site believes Scarborough’s comments are daily-story worthy? Anybody that has the mind numbness to listen to this idiot has issues.

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Chuck7884
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:46am
Can the kill you. Overseas the laws of our country do not precedes its’ Boundaries. but within ?.

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woodyee
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:35am
Joe Scarborough? Great Azkisser of Obama? Running scared?

Only until Obammy announces exceptions for members of the elite media corps; THEN he’ll be okay with it…

…sort of like millionaires like Scarborough calling on you and me to pay our ‘fair share’ in taxes; as long as they can keep THEIR exemptions, they’re fine with it. Ditto nationalized healthcare – as long as they can afford private doctors, they’re okay with it.

Two-faced hypocritical scombehgs…

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CanteenBoy
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:32am
Warning:
Drone strikes are dangerously addicting – Do Not Stop using unless directed.
May cause feelings of unlimited power and thoughts of world dominance.
Use with caution.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:32am
“contingency op” – The literal phrase for martial law. Homeland security is openly practicing the drill.
The people are one word “Overseas” vs “Domestic” away. Been saying ti for years, so it’s not a new concept. At the time no one seemed to understand the renaming of “the war on terror” Obama gave himself the power to strike anywhere, anytime with drones as part of his “contingency op”, including Americans who are “perceived” (by who?) as a threat to the State (obama’s agenda).
So when he abuses it you will get the same “So sue me” he has used for the last 5 years.

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raderby
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:29am
and one more thing: bring it on, Barry poo-poo pants. You get me, or get my neighbor, there are millions more of us. yo uidiot….- there is no way your toys can win a war against the American people.

Portable localized EMF pulse rifles, anyone? Area denial to these toys. Oh, yeah, can be done.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:28am
Its amazing at how many people have supported Obama’s ‘Kill w/o due process’ list of Americans overseas on other websites when I challenge his usage of assassination of US CITIZENS w/o any due process.

People are refusing to see how easily an immoral and power hungry man such as Obama will turn on any of his ‘enemies of the state’ who challenge his hold on power in the states.

Welcome to the new reality where to disagree with the Democrats means you are called a terrorist, and to disagree with god-king Obama means you are considered worse than the Taliban and Al Qaeda and are called a traitor to the new order of America.

And yes that is exactly what many called me for protesting these actions of Obama: traitor, terrorist and enemy of the state.

So much for freedom of expression anymore from the Democrats.

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- woodyee
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:40am
  Do not worry about what they call you – enemy lines cannot be captured without advancing through he!!. Just hold the line and put up a good fight, because in the end, if the Good Lord says our time is up, so it will be.
  
  But THEY, who knew they were doing wrong in spite of calling it ‘right’, will be terrified to learn that the knives they helped sharpen are being turned on them with no remorse – history repeats itself. And that’s the way they’ll go – terrified.
  
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WilliamORights
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:28am
Next? Kill you in your own house (after the IRS takes everything you own for an alleged transgression under the latest amendment to the “Patriot Act”).

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RaydocX
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:28am
how will they blame THIS on Bush?

and remember the hue and cry about the Patriot act, and the Left fears about what Bush was going to do with it?

the sad truth is they were terrified, because they knew how THEY would use that power…
and now their figurehead is expanding that power without their raising an eyebrow…
Morsi, eat your heart out, we have our own Dictator in chief.

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nojoke
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:26am
Oh Mika check your Blackberry so you know what to say.
Oh Mika roll your eyes like you are so smart and give a little sigh like you care when the camera isn’t on you just to interrupt someone.
She is so fake and now I’m going to eat a hamburger since you think that’s vile.

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