This cannot be repeated often enough; the American Empire is the global, 21st century version of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union .  What Bush had started, Obama has taken to it's final conclusion: 

"Barack Obama has ordered the murder of an American citizen" – New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric now living in Yemen – "without trial, without due process, without the production of any evidence," Floyd laments. "All it takes to kill any American citizen in this way is Barack Obama's signature on a piece of paper, his arbitrary designation of the target as a 'suspected terrorist.' In precisely the same way – precisely the same way – Josef Stalin would place a mark by a name in a list of 'suspected terrorists' or 'counterrevolutionaries,' and the bearer of that name would die. This is the system we have now, the same as the Soviets had then: a leader with the unchallengable power to kill citizens without due process."

"Obama has made it crystal clear for even the most avidly self-duping progressive," concludes Floyd:

"He will murder his fellow citizens without trial or evidence if he sees fit. The state can murder whom it pleases. This is the system we have. This is what you support when you support Barack Obama.... If you support Obama now, in this, then there is no crime he can commit that you will not support. And thus you become one of those people that we all used to puzzle over, the accomodationists to brutal tyranny: 'How did all those people go along with the Nazis? Why wasn't there more opposition to Stalin? How could they countenance all those obvious abominations? What kind of people were they?' Now you know. They were you. You are them."

From Chris Floyd