13 Hour Rand Paul Filibuster Ends as the Establishment Wants Legal Capability to Kill American Citizens With Drones

By Shepard Ambellas
theintelhub.com
March 7, 2013

WASHINGTON — In an epic 13 hour filibuster which finally ended at 12:40am EST, senator Rand Paul made his point as Attorney General Eric Holder and the establishment has plans to possibly use unmanned drones seek out (hunt) and kill US citizens who are potential terror suspects.

While the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act clearly states that a misdemeanor can be considered an act of terror this becomes a concern to most American citizens. In fact an article entitled, Creating “Terrorism” Out of Misdemeanors reads;

The criticism comes in the wake of independent reports suggesting that federal prosecutors have overstated their success in preventing further terrorist activity and attacks. Among the terrorism cases that have been identified in Iowa: the arrests of three contractors, all American, who failed to report drug convictions prior to starting work at airport runway jobs.

“I don’t know why they would call those terrorism cases,” said U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican. “They are obviously not.”

Justice Department memoranda obtained by The Des Moines Register under the Freedom of Information Act show officials loosened record-keeping practices and broadened the definition of terrorist crimes before the department reported a surge of new terrorism-related prosecutions in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The records show that top officials instructed federal prosecutors nationwide to catalog their work in ways that served to inflate the number of terrorism investigations. Even tips that were immediately disregarded, the memos show, were to be counted as terrorism-related investigations.

A scary thought that the above citizens would under Eric Holders wishes be targeted for extermination by a hunter seeker drone. This push toward this provision by the establishment could ultimately lead to FEMA “Big Dogs” (built by Boston Dynamics) amongst a plethora of unmanned areal drones actually hunting individuals on US soil.

An excerpt from USA Today explains the issue;

Paul, a critic of Obama’s unmanned drone policy, started his self-described filibuster by demanding the president or Attorney General Eric Holder issue a statement assuring that unmanned aircraft would not be used in the United States to kill terrorism suspects who are U.S. citizens.

Paul said that his opposition was not about Brennan himself, but the constitutional issues involved. “We really just want [Obama] to say he won’t” attack noncombatants on U.S. soil.

The federal government has not conducted such operations and doesn’t plan to, Attorney General Eric Holder told Paul in a March 4 letter. But, Holder added, it was possible President Obama could be forced by an “extraordinary circumstance” to kill citizens inside the United States, and he cited the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks as examples.

However nothing is there to stop the government from doing this as all provisions are readily available and in place.