Government has NO authority to authorize deadly force against Americans, period. DoD Directive 5240.01 is unconstitutional, and not a power granted to government through the Constitution.
According to the Declaration of Independence, humans are “endowed by their Creator” with “certain unalienable rights,” especially “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". The Declaration explains that the very purpose of government is to protect these rights. Furthermore, it says that the people have the right to “alter or abolish” governments to protect these rights, and even to rebel against a government that systematically and consistently violated the people’s rights.
The “rule of law” is the idea that a consistent, and evenly applied set of rules, rather than the arbitrary will of those in power, binds all the members of society. These laws must be made by proper procedures and published in advance of their enforcement.
The binding nature of law means everyone—not just citizens, but the government—must follow and obey the law. Indeed, lawmakers, judges, and officers of federal and state governments must take a specific oath to faithfully follow the U.S. Constitution.
DoD Directive 5240.01 is government failing to obey and follow the law. it is government betraying their oath's, as well as the Constitution by ignoring the limits of the power granted to it.
“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” ~ Charles-Louis De Secondat (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” ~ John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Thoughts on Government, 1776
“In short, it is the greatest Absurdity to suppose it in the Power of one or any Number of Men, at the entering into Society, to renounce their essential natural Rights or the Means of preserving those Rights, when the grand End of civil Government, from the very Nature of its Institution, is for the Support, Protection and Defense of those very Rights: The principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.” ~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston in Town Meeting Assembled, According to Law. Published by Order of the Town. Nov 20 1772
“Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme ... like other departments of government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the state who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void.” ~ Billings v. Hall
“History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government.” ~ Bell v. Hood
Bell v. Hood, 71 F. Supp., 813, 816 (1947) U.S.D.C., So. Dist. CA
“Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.” ~ John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman
“Who are a free people? Not those over whom government is exercised, but those who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision is made against its being otherwise exercised.” ~ John Dickenson (1732-1808)
Farmer’s Letters, 1767
Government has NO authority to authorize deadly force against Americans, period. DoD Directive 5240.01 is unconstitutional, and not a power granted to government through the Constitution.
According to the Declaration of Independence, humans are “endowed by their Creator” with “certain unalienable rights,” especially “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". The Declaration explains that the very purpose of government is to protect these rights. Furthermore, it says that the people have the right to “alter or abolish” governments to protect these rights, and even to rebel against a government that systematically and consistently violated the people’s rights.
The “rule of law” is the idea that a consistent, and evenly applied set of rules, rather than the arbitrary will of those in power, binds all the members of society. These laws must be made by proper procedures and published in advance of their enforcement.
The binding nature of law means everyone—not just citizens, but the government—must follow and obey the law. Indeed, lawmakers, judges, and officers of federal and state governments must take a specific oath to faithfully follow the U.S. Constitution.
DoD Directive 5240.01 is government failing to obey and follow the law. it is government betraying their oath's, as well as the Constitution by ignoring the limits of the power granted to it.
“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” ~ Charles-Louis De Secondat (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” ~ John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Thoughts on Government, 1776
“In short, it is the greatest Absurdity to suppose it in the Power of one or any Number of Men, at the entering into Society, to renounce their essential natural Rights or the Means of preserving those Rights, when the grand End of civil Government, from the very Nature of its Institution, is for the Support, Protection and Defense of those very Rights: The principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.” ~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution." The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston in Town Meeting Assembled, According to Law. Published by Order of the Town. Nov 20 1772
“Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme ... like other departments of government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the state who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void.” ~ Billings v. Hall
“History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government.” ~ Bell v. Hood Bell v. Hood, 71 F. Supp., 813, 816 (1947) U.S.D.C., So. Dist. CA
“Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.” ~ John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman
“Who are a free people? Not those over whom government is exercised, but those who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision is made against its being otherwise exercised.” ~ John Dickenson (1732-1808) Farmer’s Letters, 1767