Posted on 10/01/2011 4:13:28 PM PDT by americanophile
Here are two facts: (1) Anwar al-Awlaki is an American citizen and an al-Qaeda propagandist. (2) Pres. Barack Obama proposes to assassinate him. Between the first fact and the second falls the shadow.
The Awlaki case has led many conservatives into dangerous error, as has the War on Terror more generally. That conservatives are for the most part either offering mute consent or cheering as the Obama administration draws up a list of U.S. citizens to be assassinated suggests not only that have we gone awry in our thinking about national security, limitations on state power, and the role of the president in our republic, but also that we still do not understand all of the implications of our country’s confrontation with Islamic radicalism. The trauma of 9/11 has deposited far too much emotional residue upon our thinking, and the Awlaki case provides occasion for a necessary scouring. Contra present conservative dogma, the Constitution has relatively little to say about the role of the president in matters of what we now call national security, which is not synonymous with combat operations. What the Constitution says is this: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” That is all. Upon this sandy foundation, conservative security and legal thinkers have constructed a fortress of a presidency that is nearly unlimited or actually unlimited in its power to define and pursue national-security objectives. But a commander-in-chief is not a freelance warlord, and his titular powers do not extend over everything that touches upon national security.
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That’s fine, she’s going on the “wanted” list herself soon as Obama and his crowd are on the street again.
An invasion can come from outerspace, or from under the earth ~ or INTERNALLY.
“This Silica Amish is no more....”
The government already has authorized the inhumane killing of thousands of Americans on a daily basis. Where are the ACLU and the bleeding hearts here on that issue?
This scum has enough evidence against him to subject him to a firing squad in a military trial if he were on our side. The only problem with that is that he’s on the enemies’ side and we are at war with those terrorist scum and they don’t need any damn liberal miranda rights read to them. They need killin’.
Excellent!
When you research the matter will you please share your conclusions?
How? (I am interested.)
I really think the public declaration was from the victim.
And no, I am not agreeable to any one person deciding to kill an American citizen, not even the President.
He wasn’t an American citizen.
That was my point. He gave up any claim to citizenship. Also, whether he was or not is under scrutiny.
Exactly.
It’s crazy, and so is the ends justify the means mentality around here.
Anwar al Alwaki is the equivalent of an American citizen going to Germany in 1939 to enlist in the Waffen SS who gets killed by strafing American fighter planes . He is a self admitted enemy combatant travelling with other enemy military leaders/planners & he got dead . It’s a good shoot period .
Frankly yes . but since they aren’t currently on the field of battle that really isn’t an option. Life in prison & I don’t mean club Fed for treason is however a real option.
I understand the concern. There was all kinds of time to get the indictments, try him In Absentia, and then blow him to bits.
This is just another brick in the wall. And (everybody) knows Obama’s endgame. There is something coming I don’t even want to try, now, to prevent.
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