Posted on 03/08/2012 2:53:22 AM PST by Carriage Hill
I posted to point out the casual dismiss they have been using of the Constitution
I’m thinking so, too, but we’ll have to wait for the “official findings” BS, won’t we?
I will, T. BTW, I have your signed books and have read/re-read 2x: awesome, sir.
That’s what it appears to be. US Citizen-Patriots just get killed; no charges, trial etc.
yup for what they will be worth...
You can be sure it’ll be a very *sanitized* report we’ll finally get.
There are a few things about this targeted killing that are troublesome. First, as I read Holder’s three points, it is not necessary that the target actually commits a crime. In the Fort Hood example, Al Awaki (sp?) arguably gave sermons that inspired the shooter. Think how the DOJ could use this definition combined with an assertion that it’s unlikely that the individual be captured to assassinate most any conservative poster who advocates some type of immediate government change (throw the bum out). It’s a far different criteria the resisting a lawful arrest, resisting officers serving a lawful search warrant. Now I’m talking about the legal standard not the abuses that frequently happen.
IMO this gives a free pass for purely political assassinations.
Most troubling is that it is blatantly against the spirit and words of the Constitution. There are no exceptions in the due process clause for guys who go jihadist. Firefight? Waste them. Exigent circumstance? Two to center mass.
But planned assasinations of "terrorists" who are American citizens based on one man's approval? I think not.
Even trying them in absentia would at least be some sort of dure process if they refuse extradition.
I mean Obama killed a 16 year old American citizen, al Awaki's son, with a drone. He was wanted for nothing.
Scary, J. Guilt-by-inference/association is what they’re after. I can just see the widespread use of this and the bloody results, now.
but Mueller, Freech, the top generals and admirials of this country: when the country needed men to step up and show character, they rested on their laurels and their money and pensions....
but muddy the waters with wishy washing sliding slope lanquage....
we all know right from wrong...
Personally, I don’t trust any of them with protecting this country or its citizens.
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