while killing this guy in yemen, who was a us citizen on A TECHNICALITY, is ok with me as far as he goes, I think people should be concerned about the precedent of the government deciding to kill US citizens. Would it have been ok for them to kill him inside the US?
Posters shouldn’t worry about hem killing muslims, they should worry about that DHS memo about who to watch out for (normal people military vets etc). Those are the people I worry about eventually being subject to administrative resolution down the line.
That precedent was established in the thirties (and maybe before that) when the FBI and other law enforcement agencies gunned down Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde, and other public enemies. Not much due process in those cases. The public didn’t weep much either for their deaths.