[Jonty30]

Edge of a wedge. It will eventually be used on inconvenient people.

[ml/nj]

Didn't Lincoln kill lots of them?

ML/NJ

[null and void]

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you need to merely threaten to report me to the Admin if I don’t add you to the list...

[bigbob]

he’s doing a pretty good job of killing most of us...

[ScottinVA]

Remember how Big Brother and the Holder Company oh-so-vehemently had to put the terrorists at GITMO into the civilian justice system?...

... Yet, Americans can be killed for being labeled “terrorists” by this regime. IMO, the killing of al-Ahlawki was the show horse... the regime’s example of all the “good” that comes from this policy.

But of course... remember in 2009, how Pig Sis Napolitano labeled Tea Partiers, pro-lifers, returning veterans and pro-2nd Amendment Americans as terror threats?

BTW...is death by poisoning considered “natural causes” in medical parlance?

[dfwgator]

"Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and Senators don't have men killed."

"Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?"

[PghBaldy]

The Judge mentions the Nazi saboteurs. They were on American soil. Does he not see that as the deciding factor? Does the Judge think we would have been allowed to kill John Walker Lindh? He is an American.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

This type of thinking tends to confuse a common law criminal with a person actively engaged in war against the United States. Imagine a German American in 1941 going to Germany and joining the Wehrmacht. Would the author of this article then claim he should be hunted down, arrested and tried in a court? No he would have died on the Battle field as he should.

[dfwgator]

Ngo Dinh Diem was not available for comment.

[jwalsh07]

The Judge is right here. Way too much power for one man to have. And clearly unconstitutional. Firefight or exigent circumstance is one thing but killing American citizens who have not been charged with any crime by droning their butts is a bridge too far.

Try them in absentia if necessary.

[Gaffer]

NSA electronic surveillance will pick up two very important words from the title of this post. Anything posted thereafter will certainly be scrutinized. Count on it.

[Thunder90]

If they are on the battlefield fighting against US or allied forces, then yes kill them. If they are held up somewhere performing terrorist acts against the US, try in abstentia and convict, then go after them.

[Little Ray]

Well, given the outcomes of Waco, Ruby Ridge, and few other incidents, I’d say the answer was “YES” long before this particular issue arose.

[philman_36]

Holder argued in his speech that arresting al-Awlaki -- who has never been indicted or otherwise charged with a crime but who is believed to have encouraged terrorist attacks in the U.S. -- would have been impractical, that killing him was the only option available to prevent him from committing more harm, and that Congress must have contemplated that when it enacted the AUMF.
Well if that were true then such deliberations should be available for support and should have been quoted.
If it isn't in the deliberations then what is his justification?

Or has Congress not done its job properly and it did not consider all of
the ramifications of the bill which they so quickly passed into law. /sarcasm

[KarlInOhio]

Can the President Kill You?

Let's check with thousands of Confederate troops who were killed in battle for an answer.

If you make war against the United States, the fact that you are or were a U.S. citizen shouldn't save you.

[joe fonebone]

Bushie II and his congress strike again.... what people fail time and again to realize ( there are many on this forum ) is that the crack in the door is the opening the axe needs to break it down....

[Hardraade]

Can he kill dangerous enemy combattants? Yes. Can he kill political opponents? We’ll find out.

[Leep]

Could I have a McDouble and a sm Carmel Frappe, please.

[2harddrive]

The real question is: Can they do that to a US citizen, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES?

[Scythian]

You fools, the President does nothing of the sort, the goverment is a mere facade used to sedate the people. Governments, Wars, Genocide, they're all arranged, planned, coordinated to suit our needs. The needs of the people are inconsequential. You know this to be true but can't bare to unmask the reality of this world. Go play and frolic while we stoke the fires of dispair.