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This is a familiar theme with the Alex Jones bunker crowd. Last year, for example, they alleged that the US census was gathering GPS data on dissidents, Christians, and gun owners so they could be targeted by drones. The tin-foilers would really be alarmed if they knew that that no such information is necessary for a drone strike. A picture, description, and the target’s rough whereabouts are usually sufficient.

Ron Paul is still mad as hell over America’s killing of U.S.-born terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki - and he’s warning that members of the media could be next on the government’s target list.

The Republican presidential hopeful told an audience at the National Press Club on Wednesday that if citizens do not protest al-Awlaki’s death, the country could start broadening its threat list to include reporters.

“Can you imagine being put on a list because you’re a threat? What’s going to happen when they come to the media? What if the media becomes a threat? … This is the way this works. It’s incrementalism,” the 76-year-old Texas congressman said.

“It’s slipping and sliding, let me tell you,” Paul added.

The libertarian-minded politician made national headlines after he blasted the Obama administration last week for killing al-Awlaki in Yemen without a trial. He said the death of the New Mexico native-turned-terrorist-recruiter was akin to “assassination.”

During his latest speech, Paul compared al-Awlaki, and Samir Kahn, another American killed in the attack, to Nazi war criminals.

“All the Nazi criminals were tried. They were taken to court and then executed,” said Paul. “The reason we do this is because we want to protect the rule of law.”

President Obama, like several lawmakers, called al-Awlaki’s death by U.S. drone strikes a major blow to Al Qaeda.

While Paul was criticized by some for his remarks, Paul’s supporters don’t seem to be fleeing from him. At the speech, he announced that his team has raised a sizeable $8 million for the third quarter.