Posted on 10/02/2011 3:09:26 PM PDT by Starman417
The one who goes to work for Al Qaeda in Yemen?
It’s time we realized that Achmed Ali Abdul Muhammed is not an American just because he has the damn piece of paper saying so.
He doesn’t think so, and neither should we.
A passport does not automatically make you an American.
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A blogpimp that only posts excerpts and never comments?
I know, the current administration endorses such scummy activities...
Now, what gives the CIC the authority to kill American citizens making war against the United States?
Well, the same Constitution that makes him the top of the military chain of command.
The 5th Amendment even makes sure that the right of an individual to have an indictment before trial and conviction also says that doesn't have to happen in war.
Hopefully all the Americans that are enemy combatants.
Didn’t they declare the Tea Party terrorists? In that mind set, next time we rally at DC they can open fire and kill each and every one of us.
Hopefully any that have renounced their citizenship by becoming any enemy of America during war.........
What s stupid rant!! Awlaki was NOT (read that again!!) an American citizen!! He was born in America, but his father was YEMENI. If, as a dual citizen, Awlaki did NOT claim his American citizenship by age 18, it was revoked and he was a Yemeni!!
We need to stop crying over this media-driven lie. It is NOT TRUE!!!!
Al Qaeda is an enemy army, at war with America, operating on foriegn soil, not a criminal gang in America. And since they target civilians, and don’t wear uniforms they are illgal combatants. They have no rights, regardless of where they were born.
Democrats never kill people.....they just “render them more earth-friendly”.
I’m hoping that it will be Adam Gadahn.
If conservatives think they’re going to get any mileage out of this “Obama-as-assassin” meme, they’re nuts. They should be applauding the death of this scuzbag, not simpering over the manner of his death. It just looks like partisan squabbling ... which is exactly what it is.
If we declared war and then stripped terrorists and enemy combatants of their citizenship, then it is a legal killing of our enemies.
They’d rather find penumbras to justify it than follow the law. Then they can do anything regardless of the law because the law is only a theoretical framework of intent.
Gadahn, the first American to be charged with treason since the second world war era, is one of the FBI's top 10 most wanted terrorists and has had a $1m reward offered for information leading to his capture.
I would love it if the next president said that terrorists caught on the battlefield would be treated EXACTLY as the Geneva Conventions proscribe. Since they target civilians purposefully and seek to murder everyone they don’t like, they will be arrested, questioned, tried by military tribunal, and summarily executed.
Biden or Palin. Take your pick!
When an “American’’ wages war against America, that “American’’ loses the right to be called an American.
To be fair, I remember Bush saying or hinting we were going to do this, 911 was fresh in our minds, he explained the war on terror, war without borders, and I didn't have a problem with killing the "bad" guys.
But being forced to think about it on a different level, it's unconstitutional, and I regret that I so summarily dismissed it before. Who's to say it will stop with who we're told are bad guys? If they're American citizens they should have a trial, inconvenient and undesirable as that may be; they will hide behind "secret" evidence and "intelligence gathering". I know it's easier just to blast them to kingdom come but we are supposed to be a nation of law.
So I'm against it on those grounds. Sooner or later it may not stop with the bad guys or they will make an awful mistake or some other scenario.
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