License to kill
Posted on 02/07/2013 4:53:51 PM PST by smoothsailing
License to kill
The good Judge is absolutely correct.
From Chicago With Love (Reggie, that is)
I think Anwar al Awlaki needed killing. Awlaki was an Al Qaeda planner, a mentor to the Ft Hood shooter, and the designer of an attack on an airliner.
Awlaki is the poster child for why we should not be giving “anchor baby citizenship”. He was born to parents here on a student visa who returned to yemen.
IOW, he wasn’t really an American in the sense that we think of it.
It is a bad idea, though, to build legal justification on an exception. Napolitano is right on most of this, but not about Awlaki.
The problem I see with doing this kind of drone hit against Americans is that they seem to be trying to build a justification for doing it against anyone that the president decides is a terrorist threat. I can imagine them declaring the Tea Party to be a terrorist group and then using that as a justification for launching drone attacks on Americans here.
There is no doubt in my mind that if Obama could find a reason to take out anyone who opposed him he would order it done.
The Patriot Act was intended to be used by a law abiding President. Obama is not now nor has he ever been a law abiding President.
He wasn’t an American in much of any sense, but hard cases make bad law. Making an exception for one American citizen (no matter how tenuous his citizenship) means that “exceptions” can be made for others, purely at the whim of the executive. Incidentally, other people in the executive branch are apparently being given the power of deciding who should be killed.
They didn’t have to give him a full trial, simply because it’s unlikely they ever would have caught him. But they most certainly should have charged him with treason and attempted to get him in the normal way, on the battlefield. It’s pretty obvious that he was a traitor, but Obama’s Holder Justice Department hasn’t charged anybody with treason, including the Fort Hood shooter, and one of the reasons for this whole easy-way-out drone tactic is to prevent Muslims from being charged with terrorism or treason, as applicable. It might give them a bad name, ya know...
You are incorrect. He was an American. As such, he gets due process of law.
Paul of Tarsus used the fact of his Roman Citizenship to demand a trial in Rome. That was 2,000 years ago. The rule of law has to be followed. Obama can otherwise decide that the next Paul to come along is a thorn in his side, and order him whacked.
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You still searching the Constitution ???
Nah it aint in there...
Just get ya some more ammo
and a heat seeking missile
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Telling me he couldn't give me documents but then giving them to the media.
That is contemptuousNth degree
I don't know how they could have shown more utter disregard for this judge short of using the drones in question.
He was born to parents here on a student visa who returned to yemen.
IOW, he wasn’t really an American in the sense that we think of it.
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Obama was born to a parent here on a student visa
and he got to be president of the United States...
Meanwhile the 16 yo son was an American born here with American parents who were born here...
That is serious...
plus his American friend...
Ha ha ha.
I wish someone would just scream GO!
There are many levels of dishonesty.
Any public servant, ESPECIALLY THE POTUS, SHOULD BE HELD TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD.
When he decides it is otherwise, ya best it yer head down.
drudge running headline that dhs is buying another 22 million rounds.
i know why.
they want to keep ammo out of citizens hands. they have unlimited funds so they’ll keep ammo supplies tight and artificially costly for the rest of us.
And what, pray tell, precluded Obama from getting a warrant from a judge that Al Awlaki was an enemy combatant? There is no possibility that that punk could have taken an action so imminent as to have made the delay problematic when it came to protecting Americans.
The ONLY reason Zero went to all this trouble was because Al Awlaki was the perfect case with which to extend his powers to be used here against Americans.
This means you. That's why it's bad.
“it yer head down”
“get yer head down”
that is what happens when you are reloading and trying to type at the same time
Basically, what you’re saying is that they shouldn’t issue me any drones to use against fake americans.
:>)
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