Completing Lincoln's Revolution

"I'm from the Federal Government, and I'm here to protect you"

In the latest National Review Online, Charles Krauthammer, that anti-gun, pro-amnesty, pro-global democratic revolution, big-government "conservative," defends Obama's drone program:

Once you take up arms against the United States, you become an enemy combatant, thereby forfeiting the privileges of citizenship and the protections of the Constitution, including due process. You retain only the protection of the laws of war — no more and no less than those of your foreign comrades-in-arms.

Lincoln steadfastly refused to recognize the Confederacy as a separate nation. The soldiers that his Union Army confronted at Antietam were American citizens (in rebellion) — killed without due process.

The operative idea in Krauthammer's argument is that the commander-in-chief is all-powerful. If he chooses to ignore the right of self-determination, or the Bill of Rights, or whatever, then those who oppose him deserve to be in the crosshairs.

Of course, that attitude effectively negates the very principle of the American Revolution:

Legal scholar Ryan Alford observes that the 13th century marks "the last time when the executive branch of any country governed by the common law had asserted that it was legal to kill a citizen on the basis of an executive order." Obama's "executive death warrant" is more than a breach of the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee, he argues, it's an affront to the entire Anglo-American constitutional order.

Problem is, overthrowing the "entire Anglo-American constitutional order" is just part of the process of overthrowing the rest of our Anglo-American culture, which DC is actively implementing as official policy. It's what they call "diversity" and "inclusiveness." I call it "a death spiral into a Third-World banana republic," but then, I'm a hopeless conservative.