Do you think Al Awalki was a traitor to America and guilty of treason against the United States? It boggles my mind that Americans wanted this guy to be captured and tried in an American court. I hate Obama with every fiber of my being, but this was the right thing to do.
Probably, but we'll never know because there wasn't even an indictment of Treason against him by a grand jury or anyone else.
It boggles my mind that Americans wanted this guy to be captured and tried in an American court.
It's not about Awlaki. He was, as I said, most likely hateful anti-American scum. It's about the idea that the government -- specifically the President and a room full of his chosen bureaucrats -- can on their own come up with a list of "enemies of the State" that include American citizens and then just assassinate them without ever giving these American citizens their right to defend themselves. These are the tactics of a Soviet Union, a North Korea, a communist China -- not the rule of law that is supposed to protect every US citizen.