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Can U.S. legally kill a citizen overseas without due process?
NBC News ^
| September 3,.2011
| Pete Williams
Posted on 09/30/2011 6:48:51 PM PDT by chuckee
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It was the CIA/Pentagon complex' idea to target al-Awaki with a laser guided bomb.I can see where Eric Holder might object and where the Pentagon agreed to paste his Miranda warnings to the ordinance to shut Holder up.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:48:53 PM PDT
by
chuckee
To: chuckee
I believe we just proved we can.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:50:20 PM PDT
by
keat
To: keat
Let’s ask the “victim”. LOL
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:51:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: keat
Can we? Yes.
May we? I guess its ok, but it sure makes me feel uneasy.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:51:41 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
To: chuckee
Just send a cop over, they don’t need due process.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:51:56 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: chuckee
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:52:26 PM PDT
by
shield
((Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
To: chuckee
The short answer is... No. It is illegal for the federal government of the United States to kill a citizen without trial and conviction.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:52:45 PM PDT
by
ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: chuckee
Simple answer, yes. He was a traitor and clearly had given up citizenship when he joined Al Qaeda. I think for him the way he died was too merciful.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:52:55 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: chuckee
To: chuckee
I think your question has been answered in a most delightful way. Calling this thing an American is a insult to logic.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:53:03 PM PDT
by
TwoSwords
(Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)
To: chuckee
I could see one point in all this, they should have stripped his citizenship....what I don’t know is if he would have to be present because he was born in the US.
I feel that we should be stripping 100s of citizenships a week from people for violations of law and treason.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:54:00 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: Vermont Lt
:) A first grade nun’s voice popped into my head with her can vs may argument after reading the headline. The empirical evidence suggests we ‘can.’
To: chuckee
Is the man legally dead?
I rest my case.
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:55:04 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: chuckee
Makes me think of the Civil War. Where was the ACLU back then?
To: chuckee
He's not a citizen, under action of USC 8, Sec. 1481.
As a member of Al-Qaeda he took a loyalty oath to that organization, which holds itself to be at war with the U.S. Under (2) and (3) he had renounced his American citizenship rights and had no Constitutional rights. Poof. He made himself into a free fire zone. I hope he enjoyed it.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1481.html
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posted on
09/30/2011 6:58:32 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
To: ColdSteelTalon
Tell it to the thousands dead in civil war cemeteries all over the eastern United States. As far as I know there wasn’t any attempt to arrest and prosecute rebels. They were simply shot and killed. Were they not?
To: Vermont Lt
Really? Ron Paul is a effing moron. I don’t care who is POTUS killing the enemy is a good thing.
To: dila813
See post #15. He stripped himself of U.S. citizenship by his own actions.
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:00:21 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
To: ColdSteelTalon
“The short answer is... No. It is illegal for the federal government of the United States to kill a citizen without trial and conviction.”
I heard Krauthammer today cite the legal argument on the other side that we killed plenty of citizens during the civil war because the union never recognized the confederacy, still considered confederates US citizens who were “insurgents”.
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:00:39 PM PDT
by
chuckee
To: chuckee
As long as you don’t elect him as president first... it’s ok.
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:01:25 PM PDT
by
Safrguns
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