obama is going to have to face justice in this world or the next
Its one long curtain. thats for sure.
I’m not sure what all the legalese is about, but I have no issue with droning anyone caught working with the islamo crowd.
I have another, Obamacare.
It is ok for Obama to be judge, jury and executioner and assassinate US citizens by remote control. But whatever you do don’t waterboad terrorists because that would be wrong.
Is this the issue?
“...use unmanned aerial drones in foreign lands to kill people — including Americans ...a targeted killing of a victim by someone in the executive branch without due process.”
First of all, whether the drone is manned or unmanned is not the issue. For some people it bears a very strong emotional factor, but that is all. Tomahawk cruise missiles, laser guided 500 lb bombs, 155mm artillery shells and 81 mm mortar rounds are all “unmanned aerial” instruments of death.
The issue is two fold: firstly, “can enemy combatants be killed in foreign lands”, and secondly, must Americans who are fighting on the side of the enemy first be read their Miranda rights, have a properly documented chain(s) of evidence, tried and convicted by jury of their peers and sentenced by a judge (all elements of ‘due process’) before they can be engaged as a target?
I have zero respect for Obama. However, in this case I believe that Judge Napolitiano is barking up the wrong tree.
A more pertinent question is “can Americans suspected or even convicted of breaking one of the innumerable rules issued by the various administrative departments, but not found guilty by due process of any CRIME punishable by death, be engaged by heavily armed SWAT teams, snipers, armored vehicles, etc?”
Are the members of the Executive branch who order such domestic attacks guilty? Are the team members who carry out such attacks also guilty?
If the issue has not already been addressed much earlier in our history, run the question by the Supreme Court, “is an American citizen fighting for the enemy a legitimate target, trial or no trial?”
While you’re at it, ask the Supremes if deadly force legally can be applied to citizens in the USA when the death penalty has not been judicially decreed?
If the administration can do illegal things without due process & in secret,then they should have little to complain about if the tables get turned on them. When the police break the law,there is (effectively)no law.
Did Osama bin Laden receive due process or a declaration of war before the US military killed him?
Did Judge Napolitiano question that killing, too?
