The Patriot Act that was enacted under the George W. Bush administration heaped a lot of new abuses on the civil liberties of Americans. It stripped away many of our fundamental rights as citizens under the guise of “protecting” us.

If the government wasn’t allowed to read your emails to your spouse, an Al Qaeda terrorist hiding in the bushes in front of your home might kill you! Or something. (It never made much sense to people who were paying attention.)

But at least the Patriot Act wouldn’t allow the military to assassinate Americans on US soil or abroad. Well, that was the rule until about five seconds ago.

Last week, the Biden-Harris regime quietly changed one of the rules in the 2007 Department of Defense Directive 5240.01. A provision of that rule expressly forbids all members of the military or civilian contractors from assassinating Americans.

The rule is unambiguous. Here’s what it says on Page 5 of the DoD Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities and Defense Intelligent Component Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies and Other Civil Authorities:

“No DoD civilian employee or member of the Armed Forces will engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”

That’s very clear language. Department of Defense employees and military members are not allowed to assassinate Americans. Not here and not overseas.

But under an amendment to the directive that went into effect on September 27th, there are now some vague… “exceptions” … to the rule.

It seems like one of those obvious things that they wouldn’t even have to write down. Your government shouldn’t be allowed to murder you on the whims of elected officials. They wrote it down anyway.

This obvious legal question was never actually put to the test until the second-worst President ever was in office. Barack Obama dropped a bomb on the head of a US citizen named Anwar al-Awlaki in 2011.

You may not have liked al-Awlaki, his politics, or his fundamentalist Islamic religion. But the same American laws that protect you from being murdered by the government for your political beliefs should have applied to al-Awlaki.

If Obama had followed the law, the government would have indicted al-Awlaki for whatever it was they thought he’d done wrong (this has never been clarified). Then, he should have been arrested and put on trial. He was entitled to his day in court as a US citizen.

Instead, Obama dropped a bomb on al-Awlaki’s head in a drone strike in a country we’re not at war with. He also killed al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son who was also an American and standing next to his dad when the bomb went off.

This was the first and only time in US history that a president carried out the extrajudicial killing of Americans (that we know of). The Justice Department issued an opinion on it and said Obama did nothing wrong. In other words, the Executive branch investigated the Executive branch and decided this was okay.

Fast-forward to today, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have thrown the rule against the military assassinating American citizens completely out the window. Under the new revisions to Directive 5240.01, the government can now assassinate you under an Executive Order, a Presidential Directive, a DoD policy change, or on the say-so of the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.

So, Lloyd Austin or one of his deputies can now send the military to your house to kill you. So can Joe Biden and so can any future president, presumably.

They didn’t think this one through very well. I’d have a freakin’ field day with this rule if I were Donald Trump.

Joe Biden has given himself permission to authorize military assassinations of American citizens on US soil. If you think this is “Russian disinformation,” you can read Directive 5240.01 for yourself HERE.

The relevant amendment is in section ‘m.’ on Page 5 of the document. The Biden-Harris regime has not offered any explanation as to why Joe Biden suddenly needs permission to assassinate Americans. We can think of one possible reason, based on a couple of failures that happened in Butler, PA, and Palm Beach, FL earlier this year.