11:00 am ET
Sep 30, 2011


Ron Paul Condemns Killing of al Qaeda’s Awlaki

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    • It's DR. Paul.

    • Why don't you Finish the title goof ball?
      First appearance is everything and to people that skim over titles, u have just told them completely wrong info. Once again the press has made Ron Paul's message and wisdom something twisted and perverse. I condemn you for not finishing your job!

    • This is scary because the United States assassinated a United States citizen who was never even tried for his alleged crimes. The US is not some infallible god who can know beyond the shadow of a doubt that someone is guilty of a crime, and if the American people allow this kind of event to go by without extreme criticism, how long will it be before Americans here in the US start being punished for crimes that haven't been proven?

      This is a slippery slope, one that leads to the destruction justice as we know it.

    • Oh Ron Paul, if only you weren't so bent on having no government at all you'd actually be elictable. More politicians should be against both wars, not just for the money but for all the deaths and families torn apart from it.

      Ron Paul is correct on his stance in many ways towards the Military Industrial Complex, but we don't need a "libertarian" in office, the new generations are extremeley moderate and liberal and this old man is not th answer to the peoples calls.

    • Who made decision to kill Osama bin Laden

    • Ron Paul is correct. We cannot have a totalitarian government in the United States of America. If we go totalitarian, there is very little hope for the rest of the world in the pursuit of a liberal democracy.

      He should have been tried in U.S. courts since he is a U.S. Citizen.

    • Who cares what he thinks...

    • Ron Paul is right. The fact that the US can kill one it's own citizens without a trial or due process is disturbing on so many levels and should scare all Americans.


    • Ron Paul thinks on a level much higher than most all Americans both citizens and politicians. He has always been way ahead of his time.

    • Al-Awlaki was an American citizen who has not been charged with any crime. Civil liberties groups have questioned the government's authority to kill an American without trial.

    • Ron Paul is right again!!!

    • Let me see if I have this straight... if I am labeled as a terrorist my government can assassinate me without due process? No trial? No jury???

      How can we expect other countries to respect our form of government and liberty and freedom? Oh that's right... WE CAN'T!

    • And now more unelectable than ever...Our men and women were murdered at FT Hood in conjuction with this man and that is FACT

    • You don't have to worry about the government assassinating American citizens. This man was a "terrorist". I mean, the only way this could ever be a problem is if the government starts to loosen the definition of the word "terrorist" to include whoever they want. But our government would never do that!

      First they came for the terrorists, but I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a terrorist...

    • Assassinating a U.S. citizen without due process by our own government is TOTALLY against the bill of rights. If people condone this type of action it could lead to a slippery slope of political assassinations against people they could just "claim" to be terrorists. That is why even bad people like this man are protected by the bill of rights. I do not trust this hijacked government one bit. Once again Ron Paul is the only one looking out for your FREEDOMS.

    • @Realist

      Apparently more people care what Dr. Paul thinks than you would like to believe.

    • We already have had one president on record as "You're either with us or against us". If the US can kill its citizens without trial, what's to stop an even more imperialist government from killing someone who is opposed to the wars? Tyranny does not happen overnight, and this is the wrong direction for a country that supposedly values individual liberties.

    • We need to impeach Obama for Murder. He cant issue kill orders on US citizens, whats to stop him from doing it to other Americans. This is just the start. Now they dont need a trial, just assume your guilty, and kill you, scary stuff.

      Ron Paul 2012

    • That's DOCTOR Paul.
      He didn't go to school and Deliver over 4000 thousand children to be called MR. Paul.

    • Let me help clarify. A US citizen goes to Yemen where he joins a terrorist group plotting attacks on our country and our citizens. He tries to recruit others to his murderous campaign. These are not "alleged" actions - he has posted numerous Internet speeches and rants attacking the US and calling for murder of our citizenry. So the answer to the moron Dr. Paul and severl bloggers, is yes, we can kill someone who has declared war on the US since we are at war with him....

    • Congratulations Americans,

      Now your government can murder you once they declare you a terrorist without any need of a trial. Good bye constitution, and due process.

    • To Henry Cameron: How do you know he's a terrorist? Did you see him push a button? No you believe our Government/media. I hope somebody will speak out and fight for you when they label you as a terrorist without proof and kill you.

      Ron Paul 2012

    • Nobody, especially the mainstream media, seem to appreciate the idea of supporting something, or being against something, ON PRINCIPLE. Dr. Paul does not support the killing of untried American citizens on mere allegations of "terrorist activity," (even if it was likely that the man was a terrorist) because it sets the horrible precedent that it is possible for the Federal Government to execute Americans outside of the due process of law. I don't know why everyone would not agree that he is absolutely correct. We live in dangerous times... It seems that sometimes citizens in the US are no longer really in control of the almighty federal government. And I don't think that's too radical a statement. Fight Back! Ron Paul 2012!

    • He is an IDIOT wrote: And now more unelectable than ever…Our men and women were murdered at FT Hood in conjuction with this man and that is FACT.

      Ok, lets assume that is true. Why didn't the Attorney General indict him and try him in abstentia? Present the evidence, get a conviction, then deal with the guy. It would seem to me that you would be the greater idiot since you are supporting the stripping away of some of the most basic rights of a citizen just because the President and his national security team say so.

    • There are a LOT of people in the world that rants and raves and calls for killing Americans including Americans themselves... your point is...?

    • Because the Attorney General is too busy cleaning up after his wayward ATF agents

    • Yea, is there going to be a drone attack on the Attorney General for giving dangerous Mexican drug dealers guns? They killed an American police officer!!!!

    • There's absolutely nothing controversial in what Ron Paul has said about the war.

    • If the government should have just labeled "Pat Tillman" a terrorist, then they wouldn't have to explain his untimely death.

    • I am in favor of instituting a neighborhood watch program over all of the neighborhoods occupied by drone manufacturers, for the sake of protecting them from the terrorists and drugs. We will utilize drones, and the neighbors have no right to complain if there is collateral damage with their children, friends, relatives, or themselves. If they are not terrorists themselves, what is there to complain about? Freedom isn't free!

      The Patriot Act is very unpatriotic. Obama and Bush should be forced to grope each other every day and should be watched very closely with drone cameras.

    • Imagine someday, you are given a name and the government builds up charges against you. They say that you have committed heinous crimes against America. They hunt you down and kill you. Nobody ever gets to hear your side of the story or your defense. You are not given due process because you have been "branded" as terrorist. Whether you did commit the crimes or not, noone really knows. The public gets to hear only the government fed evidences. This time it's Anwar al-Awlaki. Next time, it can be you, me, your son, your daughter, your father, your mother....your friend, your boss, your neighbor.

    • Since both Obama and Bush attacked other countries without getting a declaration of war from congress, then they violated their oath of office and are terrorists by definition, under the Patriot Act. It is Obama's duty to send a drone after Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr. and himself, but only after they urinate on each other's bibles

    • I think next they will label Ron Paul a terrorist and take him out. I'm only partially kidding.

    • ...You're the terrorist.

    • Obama and neo-cons hate liberty and love to kill people. They prefer autonomous drones over liberty-loving, peace-loving autonomous humans. They would have minority teenagers sent away to federal prison if they are caught growing or smoking plants. Plenty of unemployed teenage minorities ready to go die for the bankers and the MIC. No need for a declaration of war or a trial by jury. Next, they will search everyone at sporting events, then the malls, and at "random" checkpoints. I am sure that the Chinese people will read all about it someday.

    • This makes our sitting president a criminal, just like Dick Cheeny and rest of the war mongers. Obama is a murderer.

    • I look forward to the day when Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, et. al., are brought before a tribunal, tried, convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.

    • Ron Pul please go f yourself

    • I guess he won't be hanging around the Pentagon anymore

    • In November 2009 Al-Mawlaki was invited to lunch at the Pentagon as part of a Muslim outreach program

    • to understand Ron Paul. americans prefer empty meaningless expression....like romney "believe in america"

    • I don't think that any American should worry. If Awlaki was Al Qaeda, that is what he deserved!
      I believe, however, that the Awlaki story is fiction because all factual indicators are fictional!

      Was really Anwar al-Awlaki killed? Well, I smell another CIA story similar to Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction here! I won’t believe it, nor will any historian or global affairs analyst with a sound mind! The odds are that Awlaki was a CIA undercover agent working safely from inside Saudi Arabia to snare oafs and unseasoned jihhadists who went to Yemen to join Al Qaeda. If he were a real jihhadist, he would have gone to the Pakistan lawless tribal areas where the action and the real training of Al Qaeda is. Al Qaeda in Yemen is probably non-existent – except anti Saudi monarchy armed rebels operating from Yemen that the Saudis call Al Qaeda. Both the Saudi Air Force and the U.S. have bombed those
      rebels to protect the pro-American regimes in Riyadh and Sanaa.

      Awlaki was promoted by U.S. propaganda as an Al Qaeda leader, but he was the only U.S. touted Al Qaeda leader who had no rank in Al Qaeda and no U.S. bounty on his head! All other Al Qaeda leaders carry bounties, from $ 1 million for small fish, to $ 25 millions for Ayman Zawahiri. He managed to recruit only 2 idiots, and then notified the FBI to bag them. This conclusion emanated from the crude and stupid plots that looked more like safe U.S. staged entrapment, rather than Al Qaeda planned.

      Awlaki was exposed after the sloppiness of the 2 aforesaid would be jihhadsts bombing flops. I wrote “The Awlaki Saga” in my Daily Telegraph blog, and then Awlaki vanished from the headlines. The most compelling evidence that Awlaki was probably a U.S. undercover agent running a “Roach Motel” for jihhadists in Yemen was – in addition to heavily promoted by the U.S., and no bounty on his head – the fact that the largest Houthi rebels and other small tribal rebel groups that control the scraggly Yemeni countryside never heard or seen him! He was also avoided by Al Qaeda in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. I believe Al Qaeda knew he was a U.S. agent trying to infiltrate them, and it had turned away many American Muslims who had traveled to Pakistan and tried to join Al Qaeda. The U.S. has had a history of successful infiltrations in the past, such as the Black Partners, large motorcycle gangs, and almost any U.S. Underground group. But the U.S. effort to infiltrate Al Qaeda with Awlaki had ultimately failed. The last straw was the U.S. failure to depict Anwar Awlaki as a possible successor to Osama bin Laden- was after bin Laden’s killing in Pakistan. That effort was a U.S. flop of global dimensions. I have no doubt that afterward the U.S. decided to end the Awlaki mission as unsustainable.

      What about Awlakis death by the U.S.? I won’t believe it it , even if I see a dead body doctored by CIA experts to look like him. I believe Awlaki is recalled – from Saudi Arabia where I believe he stayed for his own safety, not Yemen- and he will be given a new identity, shave his beard, gain 20 -25 pounds to pad his bony cheeks, plus the age factor (his public pictures are about 15 years old), and he can live unrecognizable anywhere! Good effort, but no cigar! And no debacle either! Nikos Retsos, retired professor

    • Terrorists kill peole without a trial by jury or following the rule of law. If the Patriot Act were human, its head would explode.

    • If the evidence is so substantial then it should not have been a problem to bring him to court, find him guilty, ask a few pertinent questions about terrorist, THEN kill him. I'm not opposed to killing traitors but we need to stand for something. The only way people can justify such actions is out of fear or anger. Not my type of America. This is one giant leap against our rights as U.S. citizens. How little do we value our own freedom to let this happen? Where does it end? I have honestly never been so ashamed of my government or my country. If you agree with me, then you need to vote Ron Paul in the primary and general elections. Our congress and president have failed us. Some of the Republican candidates may try to jump on the bandwagon to beat down Obama but Ron Paul is the only one to truly believe this was illegal. -USMC SGT

    • @Thomas - you are disgusting to me. You are what's wrong with our country.

    • Ron Paul is right. This man was a U.S. citizen. He wasn't charged with any crimes. We do not murder U.S. citizens, we have trials in court rooms with juries. If we bypass this basic right, we lose freedom for all U.S. citizens. We might as well live in a country that doesn't believe in innocent until proven guilty and execute every American we "think" might be a threat, innocent or not. It could be any of us.

    • What if you were simply declared a terrorist without a trial? Timothy McVeigh was tried.

    • Why kill the man with a drone? Why not bring the US-born guy to justice in a US court and let us all see how it plays out in a televised trial? No, it's more important to watch the Michael Jackson/Conrad Murray trial, isn't it? I'm disappointed that President Obama, who I voted for, would allow this. He speaks for rights and justice and fairness, but we're deluding ourselves if we think we have any of those things left anymore. I won't vote for a second term for President Obama. I don't like politics at all because it seems that the puppet of the year is installed, but since I vote, it will be for Ron Paul. At least he's willing to take a deep breath and a close look at something before assassinating a US-born without a clear, convincing case or due process. If this happens to Awlaki, could it happen to any of us? Americans are starting to question the gov, as we should. Now we see how they react. Gov goes ahead and does what it wants anyway without America's approval or input. That's why people are turning to Ron Paul.

    • the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. - USA Foreign policy, the Patriot Act, or the definition of terrorism?

    • Ron Paul is right, as usual. The guy was an American citizen and should have been tried in a US Court. Now they can label any American Citizen a terrorist and kill them. Nice.

      We are so far down the Rabbit Hole here folks.

    • These Al Qaeda murderers only understand killing. Should Bin Laden have been afforded a media circus trial somewhere? Awlaki knew there was a price on his head, and he knew why. Lots of "American citizens" have gone down by the gun, because that was the least expensive way to get them: think of people like John Dillinger. The more extreme your law-breaking, the less likely you'll get any quarter. It has ever been thus.

    • It has been shown beyond a shadow of doubt that the missile that struck the pentagon on 9/11/01 left as hole that was only 68 feet in diameter, contrary to the blasphemy of the cover-up story stating that the wing span of the purported "plane" was 158 feet or more. There was no wreckage of an airplane at the scene of the explosion. The twin towers, which reads quite like the Tolkien Trilogy, came down as if perfectly imploded by a demolition team. Building 7, two football field lengths away, imploded in the exact same manner. The new democrat regime has produced a generation of divorcing, baby murdering women who have completely overtaken most every milieu in public discourse. The dominance of the black American as the icon of the baby boomers has reduced the male mentality to that of animals of the field who are completely ensconced in motor controls that render them tantamount to instinctive. The truth is that the males inner ear with the blacks has everything to do with the black males "in-her" child, which is a far cry from the so called "inner child' on the north European decent males. The NFL is a sport that can be summed up as the conquest of bedding down the "galosh" slipper of the pair of her bedroom slippers so cleverly disguised in Lucifer's onslaught. The more I see of the crimes against truth and morality being exacted from the revolution against America, the more I see the destruction of the sons of the men who built it. I have heard nothing to the contrary from the blacks and woman of America the past 40 years that did not blare with the effulgent that condemns the men of America. It seems obvious that the tool of evolution has produced a Godless society. The propaganda and politically correct people will turn this country into a gestapo like prison. It does make sense to think that the less intelligent and guttural of the society are more easily 'evolved' into cyborgs that orchestrate and service evil more effectively than the scourge of the machine that eradicates the good from even having a voice.

    • “Imagine someday, that someone kills your family, destroys everything you love and the government turns a blind eye to your grief and allows those guilty to go free because they’re hamstrung over the legal definition of what “is” is in relation to whether the perpetrators IS guilty.
      Our government is composed of good people protecting the public from the evil that exist in the world today. People who are just as concerned as you are about taking a life, legality, and judging right from wrong. But they make their decision with more detailed information than is available to the general public. They follow our legal system and have the confidence and approval of a legal system that ensures we act within the law.

      Mr. Paul’s remarks clearly pander to his liberal follower’s beliefs that government is evil and needs to be controlled. Mr. Paul knows full well the USG wouldn’t act precipitously to kill an individual without due diligence. So wringing his hands publicly to placate the pacifist don’t impress me much and in fact shakes my support for his candidacy.

      Americans do not kill people for the fun of it. In this case Anwar al-Awlaki, he is defacto American based on his birth in the US, no other allegiance as evidenced by his actions. He was known as the bin Laden of the internet, so it’s hard to imagine how anyone could wring their hands over his death. He was a murderer, clearly articulating his beliefs, none of which held out any value for Americans - plain and simple. So your attempt to argue sympathy for a person being “assassinated” based on a fictional assumption is irrelevant in this issue.

    • The issue is not Al Awlaki's guilt. In all likelyhood, the guy is guilty of treason, conspiracy and murder and probably deserved to die. The issue is one of due process. In a democracy which respects the rule of law, citizens are afforded the right of trial before they can be condemned to death. That is one of the cornerstones of enlightenment tradition that our legal system is based on.

      Paul's problem is that he is sometimes inarticulate. It sounds like he is objecting to the killing of Awlaki on the issue of culpability. He's not - he's objecting to the lack of due processes.

    • Without due process this was nothing short of a LYNCHING!

    • Dennis,

      The government is composed of good people." It that an Onion headline.

      It sets a dangerous precedent when U.S. citizens murder someone without due process. It could be you one day. Why do you trust government so much? You are not the government. It is self-serving. It has ramped up a War or Terror to justify an interventionist foreign policy and to keep the people docile.

      The government is the greatest threat to your liberty.

    • "James wrote:
      The issue is not Al Awlaki’s guilt. In all likelyhood, the guy is guilty of treason, conspiracy and murder and probably deserved to die. The issue is one of due process."

      Why would you clammer for due process for one terrorist? Why not bin Laden? Once a citizen acts conspires to kill others and overthrow out government, has left his "homeland" and is protected by foreign borders and the enemy, we are well past worrying about due process.

    • Joe Peeler - At what point do you assume due process wasn't followed and why?

      And btw, I am the government, since it is made of everyday people like me doing the will of the people. So I have no doubt that what we do is right and that people like you, are just too jaded to believe that is possible.

    • The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which both non-citizens and American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts. The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the president – any president – with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country. We shouldnt be albe to send CIA drones wherever we want to kill whomever we want! Ita bloodthirsty response to the pain Americans felt on 9-11.

    • In response to Dennis below, who asserts that Ron Paul intends to "pander to his LIBERAL follower’s beliefs that government is evil and needs to be controlled," I have to say that you're completely misrepresenting Ron Paul here. You have to understand that Paul's position in regard to secret assassination missions is wholly Constitutional, it is truly conservative (in the same spirit of modern conservatism's founder Russell Kirk), and it stands on the Rule of Law as its basis.

      I'm obviously not defending al-Awlaki viewpoints or any of the actions that he was supposed to have been implicated in. Neither is Congressman Paul. But this type of assassination process totally defies our Constitution, it ignores the rule of law, and it grossly violates the right to due process (remember - he WAS a citizen. The government can't just go out nonchalantly and kill any person they desire to, simply because intelligence suspects or deems that person to be a "threat."). It's inexcusable.

      U.S. leaders need to remember that people around the world are watching, and the country continues to set a horrible example as to how justice and the rule of law should be carried out. They continually defy it.

    • Should Bin Laden have been afforded a media circus trial somewhere? Jim didn't read the whole article.

    • Hi Dennis,

      Thanks for responding to my comment. I like due process because I think limited government which respects the rights of its citizens is one important thing that sets the U.S. apart from the rest of the world. The fact that Al Awlaki is a vicious traitor - which you correctly point out - is immaterial to the larger issue. The important thing is that due process be followed to retain the basic integrity of our political system.

    • The difference between Osama bin Laden and Awlaki is that Awlaki was an American citizen with rights protected under the Constitution that Obama swore to uphold. If American citizens can be blatantly targeted for assassination without due process, then where does the rejection of the Constitution end?

    • This is the same as Iran executing those hikers based on their "intelligence" and ten patting themselves on the back.

    • Ya'll are silly, if not downright stupid. Awlaki was a Yemeni citizen, as well as an American. He was waging war for years against the U.S. from his hideouts in the mountains of Yemen. He trained, lectured and provided Islamic counseling to many terrorists responsible for the deaths of many Americans and others. He counseled several of the 9/11 hijackers. He chose to wage war as a coward, enlisting young men and boys to do his murderous work. He was the at the top of the CIA's most-wanted terrorist list.

      He was, in short, a wanted criminal. Now, when the FBI has someone on its wanted listed for, say, murder and that person repeatedly flees law-enforcement, hides out, evades detection and otherwise thwarts efforts at due process, and then in the process of fleeing is shot and killed, do you put up the same outcry? I don't think so. This terrorist did not enjoy due process because he ran from justice. Every time any U.S. or other forces got close to him, he fled. He was a criminal and a fugitive and he got what any wanted criminal in his situation would get, and rightly so.

      My suspicion is that many of you are knee-jerk, goose-stepping Obama-haters, and you simply cannot bring yourselves to acknowledge that, whatever his faults, President Obama has been prosecuting the war against Al-Qaeda with a precision, an effectiveness and a ruthlessness that his feckless predecessor never came close to matching. I, for one, voted for Obama precisely because he vowed to redirect our war effort toward its original goal--the rooting out of terrorists in Afghanistan and anywhere else they find safe harbor--and he has been fulfilling that promise, and then some.

    • Cevennes...It's that small pea brained mentality that is bringing our country down. Thanks idiot.

    • All American citizen have the god given right to due process and a trail. Not execution.

      Also, Anwar al-Awlaki ate dinner with military brass at the pentagon a few months before 9/11. Somethings are just not adding up anymore.

    • If the U.S. government wants to assassinate a U.S. citizen without trial, shouldn't it at least publish the evidence it has against him (ahead of time)? Or maybe have Colin Powell read it to the United Nations.

    • Correction - Ron Paul did not support the assassination of Osama Bin Laden the way it was carried out. He thinks it right that Bin Laden was killed, but not that we operated without the consent of Pakistan, or that we just went in and killed him, and then dumped the body. He should have been tried in court just like Anwar Al-Alwaki. Ron Paul is not a hypocrite.

    • How many of the Ron Paul wacko followers also believe that 9/11 was a U.S. government plot?

      Real Republicans are right to tell these conspiracy nutjobs to bugger off -- time to take Dr. Wacko off the debating stage.

    • "take Dr. Wacko off the stage" You're a terrorist. Expect drone hits.

    • You're a smart one. Just how would you suggest Awlaki have been afforded the privilege of due process? He was hiding out in the mountain fastness of Yemen while continuing to order the killing of Americans. Heavily armed and surrounded by hostile enemy soldiers equally heavily armed and willing to kill anyone attempting to approach the man. At the first sign that the U.S. was on his tail, the entire entourage picked up and found a new hideout. He was no different from some gang lord, or drug dealer or spree killer on the lam.

    • Due process folks! You allow a government to do something like this, what stops them from targeting ordinary everyday folks in the name of terrorism? He had a right to a trial, no matter what some think. Assassinating Americans is not the way we're supposed to be. What has happened to this country?

    • Merely Wonder ... it's sad that you've been so morally vanquished .. I understand that you represent a microcosm of typical war propagandist thinking but making ignorant and uneducated assertions of Dr. Paul is not only illogical, but also a bit embarrassing on your part. I feel sorry for you ...

    • Kudos to Obama, take out more of these idiots by any means necessary.

    • Ad hominen attacks doesn't make YOU right and doesn't make you sound intelligent.
      @JTH sounds like you know something we don't know? You seem to know a lot about Awlaki's movements. Nonetheless, don't we have the best intelligence? Military force? Trained to do the job of capturing these terrorists and bring them to justice like we did so many others before him? How about Timothy McVeigh? Didn't he kill over 130 American lives, wounded over 800 Americans. Here on out soil? He was found and tried and executed? What's the difference ? We knew for a fact he did it!!! Because of the trial. We as Americans were privy to EVERY detail. And we should be privy to all the details with these terrorists. You are missing the bigger picture and are the reason for these perpetual wars. You are part of the problem and all people like you.

    • Yep, you all just keep focusing on this conspiracy-theorist sideline while the great majority of sane people worry about real problems. I suppose you're still harboring resentment and bitterness that the Confederate Army was denied due process, too.

    • Why was Mr. al-Awlaki a guest at the pentagon after 9/11? Why didn't we arrest him then? Why don't reporters do their jobs?

    • @@merely wonder wrote: "I suppose you’re still harboring resentment and bitterness that the Confederate Army was denied due process, too."

      Actually they did as a whole. It's called the "Reconstruction era."

    • @JTH wrote:"He was no different from some gang lord, or drug dealer or spree killer on the lam."

      You're right. And guess what, those killers are all afforded their 5th Amendment right of Due Process.

    • Not when they are armed, dangerous, fleeing law enforcement and continuing to commit crimes while fleeing. Cops take people out every day without due process. Get over it.

    • What's with the 'Mr. Paul' connotation? The man is a doctor and a congressman- don't write as if he's just some schmo weighing in. how about some respect!

    • It is a sad day when the president is crowned king and executioner. Giving the president so much power over American citizens is a very dangerous road. This has nothing to do with whether this man was evil or not. He was an American citizen and our President took an oath to protect and abide by the constitution. Obama in theory hired a hitman and should be tried for it.

    • Screw ron paul and screw the constitution!
      The constitution is old and outdated, and bears no relevance to anyone alive today.

      We need to just do whats right for us as a country. We need to trust in the president and those in positions of power to do what needs to be done for our safety, whether its constitutional, lawful or not.

      We can overlook the laws on which our country was founded for matters that the politicians think are in their- i mean our best interest. Citizen or not, he was a bad guy. We all know it, the media said so!

    • Note the hatred of the bloodthirsty Neocons.

      They could care less about the rule of law -

    • How many civilians were killed in this attack?
      How many more innocent civilians will be casualties of war because of our "War on Terror"?

      Far more than any terrorist attack on us can produce. We are the best at everything, including murder. USA!!!!!

    • Joeb, if you don't like the constitution, go move somewhere that doesn't have one. No one is forcing you to stay in this country. American citizens need protection from their government and that is exactly what the Constitution is supposed to do. When, in the course of human history, has any government been on the side of their people? And if you continue to think that everything the media says is gospel, you are going to get yourself into a lot of trouble. It already sounds like you take all the vaccines and eat their genetically modified food. Al-awlaki was never tried or convicted of a crime. Just because someone says something doesn't make it so. The media could start calling you a terrorist tomorrow and I'm sure you would be against a drone killing yourself. This is not the American way - regardless of whether this was a bad guy or not. We all have a right to a fair and speedy trial as an American citizen. We are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Also, if you believe everything the media says, this guy has died at least four different times. Please start thinking for yourself and don't put other people in harm's way by not abiding any laws.

    • When you give power like this to the government it will Always be abused. That we can now unitlaterally just execute Americans without any kind of trial is a travesty. Ron Paul is right.

    • ... Joeb was laying it on pretty thick I thought. Oh well.

    • I cannot believe that Ron Paul is criticizing the killing of those two traitors in the desert! My old grandfather used to say that the only to deal with a snake in the chicken yard is to KILL IT! They got exactly wihat they deserved; a hellfire rocket up their backsides. The sooner we learn that we have to ELIMINATE our enemies instead of appeasing them the better off we will be. I certainly would not want Ron Paul making decisions for me in the White House.

    • Your old man would make Hitler proud.

    • Ron paul is not criticizing his killing, but the methods used to do it.
      Where is the accountability?
      We all want justice brought to terrorist, ron paul included... but where is the justice now? We will never learn the whole truth or hear any side of the story other than those the CIA wants to "share" with us.

      You guys need to realize that the constitution only works if its applied to EVERYONE. We are all born with the same rights.. and yet we allow people in power to judge who and who isnt afforded those rights.
      The bill of rights is no longer the bill of rights when a citizen is killed without trial, regardless of how evil they are. You cannot pick and choose.

    • War with fundamental Islam will be ruthless. I would prefer that it not begin.

      Fundamental Islam asserts Kafir (nonbelievers) are najis (religious filth). Other things najis are dead bodies, feces, urine, dogs, and pigs.

      War with fundamental Islam may lead to a broader conflagration with some of the most remote, desperate, and poorest people on earth. I think Ron Paul's desire to extricate the US from such a war is wise. However, hand wringing over the fate of this one individual I'll leave to others.

    • Do we really need a trial? I think anyone who joins Al Qaeda or is Communist should be assassinated for being blatant traitors to this country. I don't care where they're walking around, Yemen or Nebraska or NYC or Paris. I say we just hunt them down, along with the people sympathetic to them. You no longer have rights in those cases. It would be alot more efficient too, and less costly given how much money a trial costs. Ron Paul didn't even think the Iraq or Afghanistan war is good.

    • i think ron paul is stupid i can think of a stronger word but this is aol

    • Anwar al-Awlaki was a US Citizen, and all US Citizens are required to file tax returns no mater where they live, need to pay taxes on their world wide income derived from all sources including barter, and report all bank accounts with more than $10k balance that they have in their name or signing authority on.

      Anwar al-Awlaki was clearly in violation of these terms and the IRS doesn't mess around anymore and he was labeled a terrorist.

    • ron paul 4 pres ha ha ha ha haha

    • @ Luke. Hitler would be proud not of Ron Paul but of the action the US takes when it murders Americans without a trial.

    • WOW,ther's a REAL fascist for you-"Do we really need a trial? I think anyone who joins Al Qaeda or is Communist should be assassinated for being blatant traitors to this country. I don’t care where they’re walking around, Yemen or Nebraska or NYC or Paris. I say we just hunt them down, along with the people sympathetic to them. You no longer have rights in those cases. It would be alot more efficient too, and less costly given how much money a trial costs. Ron Paul didn’t even think the Iraq or Afghanistan war is good."-Kane


      Another glorious day for the empire, my fellow Proles!

    • What you morons have posted about Dr. Paul is a clear example as why most you are so stupid!!! What he's trying to tell you is, if you’re going to call someone a terrorist and kill them, give a clear explanation as how that person is connected to terrorism with facts!! Just like Osama, "He's dead and don’t ask any questions" wait a minute!!!! We have spent trillions of dollars, many of American soldier’s lives have been lost and you’re going to tell me he's dead and his body was dispose of!!! It’s ok to ask your government to give you explanation as why they do what they do.

    • If you think killing this American without a trial is a good thing, ask yourself this: how would u feel if you were arrested and then executed for unspecified crimes? If it can happen to this guy, it can happen to YOU! Imagine you were the target the white house claimed without approval from anyone required death.

      This will be considered a violation of the constitution if it ever goes to trial.

    • Dear Dr. Paul,
      Bring your basket of common sense and Austrian economics straight to the White House.We are waiting.

      Thank you for your service.

    • This was an American citizen who's chief crime was making videos critical of American foreign policy. Awlaki was assassinated by a U.S. President who could have brought him in for trial. If you have no problem with a President assassinating a guy for that ... buddy, YOU are the problem with this country.

      Apparently, Ron Paul is the only member of Congress who actually believes in the rule of law rather than drug gang-style murder of those who have fallen out of favor with the gang leaders in charge of this country. The Mexican Las Zetas and Sinaloa drug cartels would do no differently.

    • The US government - in particular, the executive branch, directing the military, has become the judge, jury, and executioner of an American citizen, with absolutely no due process. This is chilling to any American with sense.

    • you Paul supporters are idiots what about back in the 19th cent when the wanted dead or alive which always meant dead that was justice without a trail he is just a terrorist loving anarchist

    • lets see John Wilkes Booth the killed without a trail and there has been others

    • Chris,

      I believe in due process for the average law abiding citizen and that this situation does seem to ignore the rule of law. But since we are in agreement he was far from the average law abiding citizen, I think it’s a stretch to believe the USG will go out and nonchalantly kill random citizens.

      Al-Awlaki was a fugitive of US law, a combatant, a leader of their movement, and an unabashed antagonist of the USA.

      With his actions in mind, I think he clearly represented a defacto denouncement of his US citizenship since he was advocating the killing of Americans and the overthrow of the USG. So to make the connection that the USG by targeting a known terrorist leader it somehow precluded him from due process is a great law argument, but that’s about it. True to definition, but no less an absurd argument I won’t lose any sleep over.

      Do the detractors in this section believe someone should have (could have) taken him an affidavit to sign away his citizenship or served him a subpoena - any volunteers? Because capturing him was obviously something easier said than done and the potential for loss of other Americans lives would have been pointless simply to appease those in need of protecting his rights.

      I understand the argument that we are supposed to be better than the barbarians. So, with that in mind I rest easy knowing that in days gone by, people guilty of far less heinous crimes than Al-Awlaki were treated to beheadings, hung, drawn and quartered to name a few, so IMHO he got off easy considering the blood of so many innocents on his hands.

      So, I give no credence to an argument that he deserved the basic rights of an American citizen, because I do not believe he was one - other than by the coincidence of US law, something he obviously couldn’t have cared less about.

    • The law is to protect all Americans; the good, bad, ugly, guilty, and the innocent. Breaking the universal Constitutional law puts every single Americas in the cross hairs. All Americans can now be assassinated for where ever terrorism (even protesting) fits.

      It can get ugly.

    • The Constitution

      You may be right. I doubt it, but I concede you may be right. However, I'm going to take a wait and see attitude on this one. BTW - What is "universal constitution law" - I seriously never heard of it.

    • Oh boy,this article has sure attracted some fart smellers.For everyone who has questioned Ron Paul's statement,I have something that you all need.http://fakediplomaonline.cu.cc

    • Ron Paul's comments are self serving. It is obvious why he shouldn't even be on the podium with the other candidates. What doesn't he get about the title "Commander in Chief"?

    • I think Paul is to be commended. He stands up for the constitution. I really do fear a government that has decided that an American citizen can be assassinated without charges and trial. Obama has secret evidence and no court has looked at the evidence, yet we are to believe that they will act correctly. I have little doubt that this man was in fact guilty of crimes. Why not try him or at least present evidence publicly. Remember that Lincoln had newspaper editors imprisoned for writing negative things about his policies, the Japanese Americans were imprisoned for simply being Japanese, the Tuskegee veterans were experimented upon without their knowledge etc, Our government does not exactly have such a great history of judgement. In addition how many innocent people have we killed with our drone attacks in order to get a single bad guy. I am proud of Ron Paul for taking the tough stance in the face of ignorant criticism.

    • Just so everyone is clear. Our President ordered a US citizen to be put to death. You all agree with this because you've declared him guilty yourselves. But this is America and the last time I checked any American citizen is protected under our Bill of rights to a fair trial. Part of the 5th amendment specifies the state cannot deprive me of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. It's a dangerous precedent to set that the president has the legal authority to kill a citizen of the US because he finds him/her to be a threat.

      Perhaps this man deserved no trial for he was such a threat to others. And perhaps in this instance the President was warranted to interfere with the liberty of this man because of his threats of future actions. Perhaps government always acts in the peoples best interest and unwavering devotion to and trust in the leader is called for. Or perhaps the threat that a leader with such power poses to those he rules is a greater threat than any other one man can pose to the group. Perhaps it's the job of the masses to align together to ensure their freedom under the hand of a dominant force by holding it accountable in all it's actions. Always questioning it and testing it to ensure that it does not, for one, moment forget that it's power is derived by the consent of the ruled.

      I don't trust 1 man with the power to legally take life. You agree that this man should be killed so that makes it ok in your eyes. But there can come a time when that power is abused and then it's too late. It shouldn't be treated so lightly. Our president ordered the killing of a US citizen. That is crazy to me. I don't care who you are or what you've said or done, The president shouldn't have that kind of control. I don't want a world where he does. It's a matter where the principle outweighs any immediate benefit to us to have him dead.

    • we will politically correct ourselves into oblivion. and it will be a torturous process. the ba$tard deserved to die - no questions asked.

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    • What doesn't' Obama get about the Rule of Law? Even Timothy Mcvey got his day in court! This has nothing to do with Commander and Chief. America stands for nothing anymore, we don't' even respect our own laws, let alone others.

    • Hello to JC and WSJ Staff readers and writers:

      With all due respect Mr.Ron Paul, even if you climbs in Polls we need to protect our countries,our young students,young workers,and the population in general, without them we may go nowhere.The wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are very significant ones for our own security.

      Does anybody wants to discuss this argument? Are we fighting a war that we had no choice but to shoot back ?

      I can't have all the information but we have the passion to succeed and that should be enough.


      Julio Gonzalez Jr.

    • Today Al-Alwaki is accused of being a terrorist but tomorrow you or I may be the one who is accused of being a terrorist.

      Who will argue on your behalf when your country can be the judge, the jury and the executioner all at the same time.

    • Julio, you have no idea what your talking about. Read the constitution. Preemptive wars are illegal. Our foreign policy has made our country less save. Even our own CIA acknowledges that our actions in the middle east over the past 50 years has created blowback. Not to mention these wars are bankrupting this country.

    • many black criminals were denied juris prudence, and I am sure a few white criminals as well. if their crimes were heinous enough, these american citizens would be killed by the police and you ron paul lovers wouldn't bat an eyelash. if this was Bush, you wouldn't do anything but kiss his butt and call him the best thing since sliced bread. all you ron paul supporters are racists. point blank. i spit on all of you. and I for one hate Obama's guts. sick of the senseless Obama bashing you dorks sound like high school girls.

    • Ron Paul is correct about the disintegration of American jurisprudence. And how about the strategic manipulation of the people?

      Obama's credibility on the economy is zero. His credibility on job creation is zero (interfering with Boeing creating American jobs in South Carolina). His green energy plan is a sham (thanks Solyndra). His administration is rife with inappropriate behavior (i.e. Dep't of Education colluding with hedge fund short sellers on the Gainful Employment rules facing for-profit education industry).

      The only bump in the polls for Obama was the death of Osama.

      al-Awlaki's importance and grandure appear vastly and purposefully overblown. Perhaps Obama is desperate to provoke a retaliatory "event" for the people to rally behind him just in time for the election???

    • What a sad bunch of fools, believing what the US government tells them. That's what happens when people are too lazy to study history.

      Ron Paul is the only person in the race that would tell the truth about what happens overseas in our name.

    • You have the right to terminate your citizenship. When you leave your country and join a terrorist organization that is at war with your country then, as I see it, you have just forfited your citizenship. These terrorist want to kill my family, your family, your neighbors family and any other family they can get close to. The only DUE PROCESS that works is that I get you before you get a chance at me. You cannot negotiate with a terrorist. Wake up people these terrorist want to kill you and are willing to sacrifice their lives to do it. I would not feel very safe with Ron Paul as president.

    • When someone supports the killing of this "terrorist" without due process, I am reminded of a famous poem about the Holocaust: "First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."

    • Terrorists have rights too! BTW, I Hate America!

    • Zack,
      I just wanted to write and send my Uncle's thanks for continuing his propaganda campaign since he won't be with us anymore. He worked very hard to distract weak minded people from his plans to kill others, using a posse of naive idealistic bored young individuals arguing America's weaknesses. I'm sure he has a different opinion at this point, but he was better at spreading dissent than anyone else in our family. Again, our thanks, keep em occupied, we're working as quick as we can. Viva la Due Process!

    • That's one of the reasons Ron Paul is not an electable candidate,

    • People should fear their government more than terrorists. Giving our executive branch that kind of power that can put Americans on assassination lists goes against our bill of rights. Everyone who is a citizen has the right to face their accusers. Why couldn't we have tried him in a court of law after his capture. We tried Tim McVey and he was put to death. But mark my words, the time will come when a leader who is a wolf in sheep's clothing will be able to fabricate a story claiming someone is a terrorist, they will be assassinated for being a whistle blower or something along those lines.


    • Rachel Maddow raised a series of questions about the legality of the killing of the U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on her Friday show.

      Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. airstrike on Friday morning. While many lawmakers and pundits celebrated the death, others were troubled by the precedent that might be set by killing an American citizen without any trial or evidence presented against him.

      Maddow ran through the long list of operations that al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in. She noted that there were "a lot of 'allegedlys'" in the list, and that "none of those allegations was ever made in court." The only due process involved in al-Awlaki's killing, she says, was that President Obama ordered him to be killed.

      "Can the United States government choose an American citizen to be executed without ever charging them with anything, without ever proving anything against them, without ever giving them a chance to defend themselves?" she wondered. "Whether or not you think it is deserved, under what authority did President Obama or could any president sign him up to be killed on sight?"

      Later, Maddow asked her guest, Wired writer Spencer Ackerman, about the precedent that could be set by the killing.

      "If the US government can justify this action overseas, what about here in the US?" she asked. Ackerman said he didn't see what the difference was between ordering an American to be killed overseas and ordering him to be killed on U.S. soil.

    • You Ron Paul supporters are sheepeople. If he took a crap and told you all it was the second coming of Christ you'd all bow down to it. Sick!

    • Dr. Paul....
      "No one likes these kind of people, but I also like the rule of law and I like our Constitution, that you don't just target people, as sa ssi nate them, someone who has not been charged and you have no proof of anything," Paul told Fox News. "So if we want to protect American citizens from that type of justice, we have to be more cautious."


      If you wear a turban, have a beard, worship Allah on a prayer mat facing Mecca four times a day, then odds are you ARE a Muslim. As such, there has been a very high correlation between Muslims and Terrorism. In fact, most actual terrorist acts have been perpatrated by Muslims. If you hang out in Yemen and speak Arabic and your associates are positively I.D. as Taliban or Al Queda associates, then you are considered a terrorist by the company you keep. As such, you are a target in an ongoing war. The U.S.A. does not need a stop sign.

    • taking out enemies of the state is one of the few things the government ought to do. good job.

    • The US government has set a precedent. If they can drop a bomb in Yemen on a suspected terrorist, what kept them from dropping a bomb on McVeigh or JihadJane? American citizens, no matter how bad they are, have rights.

      And Cambrian... You are ridiculous... The people who are afraid to break the mold of the status quo and continue to support the wishy-washy people in Washington are the sheep. The assumed power of the Federal government is out of hand, and the people are tired of it and thankful that there's at least one honest man in politics who is doing something about it. Ron Paul is human, his political views are not perfect, but he's willing to selflessly change the things in Washington that need to be changed.

    • Hello to the Journal Community and the WSJ journalists:

      To be able to analize these 2 wars against islamist fighters, which we are involve in, have made a difference. Even if we are still fighing these 2 tough wars we have had not even one major terrorist attack in our country: the United States of America.

      Al-Qaeda is weak now after drones have broken-up their network.It seems like Haqqani maybe the worst enemy in our way but not a very significant one.

      We can't forget about the strong FBI contribution to this war and CIA also has played a major role in this war.We need to keep safe so we don't encourage others to attack our women, children and elders, in one word: our population. NATO is making a significant contribution against our enemies in Europe.


      Julio Gonzalez Jr.

    • i thought that you would kill a snake before it killed you? We waffled when Osama was in our sights and look what happened. This guy turned his back on his country - what is due to a Benedict Arnold?? Lets get real, sometimes when people are strategizing day and night to kill YOU, the means does justify the end.

    • While Awlaki was most likely guilty of crimes against citizens of our country and those crimes would likely result in his lifetime imprisonment and or death, it is the responsibility of NO MAN to be judge, jury, and executioner. We have laws in this country for a reason, and in MY America, you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
      You can take your state run assassination rhetoric and move to Russia - you are no American.

    • I think Kant's categorical imperitave should be used to filter this issue. In anyones opinion would they be fine if the U.S. government killed them and their companions because they desired to? if a group of people want to kill you should they be given that privilege? Should it be "universal law" that the american government may kill anyone that they view as a threat (based on their own threshhold of proof and holdong only their own counsel?) I don't think any intelligent non-jingoistic person could agree with that. Unless , perhaps they are more interested in supporting an agenda and "their side".

    • So if Your Just said to be a terrorist and they have no proof but there words ... they can execute you without a trial ... Didn't Obama Just Get The Nobel Peace Prize ... isn't murder and war the opposite of peace ... i am glad we are having non-violent protest instead of "Peaceful Protest" things would really be vicious

    • Ron Paul was biking down the political trail to POTUS. Then he pushes the button that sets off a political IED and he blows himself up. I'm sorry. I liked Ron Paul. I'll miss him. But, to suggest that Obama be impeached for killing Awlaki is just nuts.

      How many American soldiers would have to die to capture Awlaki and put him into a $20 million dollar show trail?

    • For years, Ron Paul consistently received more donation money from active military troops than all of the other big govt republicrats combined. romney gets nothing. gingrich gets nothing. Ron Paul even receives more money than the commander in chief Obama

    • It sets a pretty bad precedent when the men being killed are IT guys and US citizens. It doesn't matter if they are making videos to recruit terrorists or Star Wars Convention-ers, if they do not play a role in physically harming our people, they have a right to life just as we believe we do. Take that away for such petty reasons and it won't be long before its on our own doorstep. The reasoning for killing this guy was so weak that it sounds more like the government is saying, "they're getting too good, we have to pick off the easy targets and make a Lion out of a Mouse." Almost no one had heard of this guy until he was already dead, Al Qaeda may need these people, but he was a squishy soft American without experience in the brutal reality of living at the edge of survival. Really, how difficult could he have been to track and kill. It just sounds like they're fishing for whatever victories they can find, and even those are becoming more scarce. Way to go Mr. Pres, you managed to steal a lolly-pop from a toddler, how valiant you are.

    • Ron Paul suggests that President could be impeached for killing American born Al Qaeda official Anwar Al-Awlaki. Is he kidding? I suggest that this is the “chance” Al-Awlaki took when he preached terror against his own country. After all, Ron Paul said himself, that he is willing to allow millions of American’s to die who don’t purchase health insurance because - - that’s the “chance” they took. I don’t know that I trust a man who is willing to throw millions of loyal citizens into the grave yet considers killing a trader to our country an impeachable action.

    • You don't have to like Al-Awlaki to be concerned about his death. I agree he was a terrorist agent and a traitor to his country. But who will continue to make these decisions about who we kill, how we kill them, when we kill them and where we kill them. If I say something that offends the powers that be, does that entitle them to summarily execute me? Ron Paul has raised a point that needs thoughtful debate.

    • If you are against the killing of this terrorist AL-AWLAKI, that means u are also against killing BIN LADEN and all other terrorist, think of all the innocent people who lose their lives to terrorist, do these terrorist give you and i a chance. left to them they will blow us all away without pity. so tell me why should we spare a terrorist life.
      Or maybe its just jelousey and hatred that an Afican American President achieved taking down these notorious terrorist of all time. Good work Mr Obama keep it up.
      If they are against you killing a bloody notorious terrorist and extremist who has murdered many, that means we also have to clear all the people on death row in A merica who hAve comitted murder.

    • This Al Awlaki betraded his country, as such, he was not a citizen of this country. It's difcerent to protest our country, but he thought that 9-11 was a good thing, and more sgould be done to distroy us. Killing him did not bother me, and should not bother anyone who is a true American. He was a traitor, period

    • The Awlaki dude was a bad bad bad American,,,who was judged and killed by our bad bad bad President..If or bad bad bad president gets his way in the next 4 years he will kill all the bad bad bad Americans he decides to kill...when you say it's ok that he did this with out giving this Bad bad bad American his rights to his day in court,,you give away your day in court too...justify it anyway you want to but our president KILLED and AMERICAN without giving him his day in court...

    • Have Ron Paul tell that face to face to the relatives of the FT Hood soldiers

    • And this so-called political leader and a republican presidential candidate calls himself a patriotic American ? Is this who we would want to intrust our safety and our Constitution with ? Awlaki was only American until he could use our country for his purpose...With citizens like him, what country ewould need enemies? He has his part i almost every terrro attack agains US on our soil and aborad...Shame on Ron Paul !

    • His death is similar to the deaths of the Confederate soldiers, not a jurisprudence matter. The trouble being that the administration will take the non reaction to his death as an OK to target ANY US citizen.
      The idea that opposition to military action against American citizens is caused by hatred of the President or his ethnicity is ludicrous. The race card is dead from over use. Just mentioning.

    • Awlaki was a sworn enemy of the United States and, as such, was nothing more than an enemy combatant. He was nothing more than a casualty of war. His American citizenship notwithstanding, the man would have received his day in court had he surrendered. He chose sides in a war and paid the price for his choice.

    • We killed a traitor,big deal. Paul's an idiot if he doesn't see that.

    • Paul needs to get out of the race he does not get it and his views are too extreme. We don't need another extremist in the white house...we have one right NOW and look what that got us. Iran can have nukes and condemning klling a terrorist of the US regardless of a citizen. I think he has lost his marbles.

    • Awlaki like it or not was a American citizen...He was also never charged with a crime..
      And killed by the Obama administration..

      What Ron Paul was referring to was a thing called the constitution..
      Once upon a time, our founders thought that they were guaranteeing our freedoms by adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

      But today there are a lot of freedoms that we simply do not have any longer.

      In America today, you do not have the right to say whatever you want. If you say the wrong thing on a blog or a website it can have dramatic consequences.

      In America today, you do not have the right to do raise your own children as you see fit.

      In America today, you do not have the right to grow whatever food you want and you do not have the right to eat whatever food you do grow.

      In America today, you do not have the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

      In America today, you do not have a right to privacy. In fact, you should expect that everything that you do is watched, tracked, monitored and recorded.
      In America you are now one step closer to being murdered by your government.
      In America so much for all that died to defend our freedom.

    • With all due respect Mr. Ron Paul:

      Any time I read your name Mr.Ron Paul; I remember a baseball player who played in the 70's. His name Mr..Ron Paul.Why I'm telling you this?That Montreal Expos team had him as his lead-off batter Why?

      Mr. Ron Hunt was able to get around 50 deadballs per season, and that was a new record in the Major Leagues.That's creativeness.At thispoint we all need more efficiency with hurting our health.

      Any way do you have a better alternative Mr.Ron Paul? I'll be pleased if you have one.

    • With all due respect Mr. Ron Paul:

      Where it says Mr.Ron Paul, should be replaced with Ron Hunt.

      Where it is written "At thispoint" it should be replaced with "At this point".

      Where it is written: With hurting our health should be "with out hurting ourselves".


      Julio Gonzalez Jr.

    • Hello to the readers and writers of the WSJ.com:

      I like to have readers that criticize me; maybe because "Constitution 2012" is so hard to read that I would ask you to write a comment which is easier."Constitution 2012" is not a joke but it looks like one. This is a matter of being competitive with out state interference if it is not needed.

      South Korea has become a First World country and its economy approved by the International Monetary Fund.


      Julio Gonzalez Jr.

    • Hello to readers and writers:

      Those two that I can't understand is "Constitution 2012" and yourself. When you told me, I don't know what I am saying, make sure your are in the right road to success. No body can read "Constitution 2012".You can look for a specific topic and then develop that topic.Answer back if you feel like it.


      Julio Gonzalez Jr.

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