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Confirmed: Obama Authorizes Assassination of U.S. Citizen
Salon ^
| Wednesday, April 7, 2010
| Glenn Greenwald
Posted on 04/07/2010 7:24:39 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: unkus
I hear the sound of little rats digging, digging, digging to see if any president before Bush II was known to have done such a targeting.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:48:32 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:50:37 AM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
To: kristinn
First they came for Awlaki, but I am not a terrorist so I did not care, then they came for ...
43
posted on
04/07/2010 7:50:41 AM PDT
by
granite
(A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have)
To: kristinn
What happened to miranda rights for terrorists?
What does Anwar al-Awlaki have on Ogabe.......
To: Lazamataz
The left is waiting to see if active, strong republicans are going to be on uhbama's hit list as enemies of the state. After all....as of today we are no longer allowed to use the terms
terrorist, islamist, jihadist, etc. so WHO KNOWS what the definition of a person worthy of dying by edict via uhbama will be?
Perhaps it need be only a person who is unruly and SCREAMS out the TRUTH to that pom-pus POS at one of his creepy air force one boondoggles. A person quietly killed in his or her bedroom later that day. Legally. Of course.
Welcome to tyranny ala liberal land. You will NEVER hear any liberals come against uhbama. They are not only afraid of him, but they are TERRIFIED of being called racist! lol
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:51:18 AM PDT
by
Republic
(Stop the horrific liberals from spending ONE MRE DME before they destroy our nation.)
To: kristinn
I think this kind of thing has happened before.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:51:24 AM PDT
by
toast
To: kristinn
Confirmed: Obama Authorizes Assassination of U.S. Citizen I'm wondering if he would authorize the assassination of a Kenyan?
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:52:34 AM PDT
by
The Duke
To: Jack Hydrazine
He has already bankrupted the nation... we just haven’t seen the generations of debt servitude in the future. Future generations indentured.
To: Jack Hydrazine
He has already bankrupted the nation... we just haven’t seen the generations of debt servitude in the future. Future generations indentured.
To: unkus
The DU appears to be spinning it this way now.
What is unprecedented about this is that they announced it to the world. And that by announcing it to the world is better than a covert ops murder as it’s a shrewd move to make the guy inneffective.
But then there are those that support Obama and some wish to have GW and Bush added to the hit list.
While some think this is a bad idea.
It’s a mixed bag...get some popcorn this should be fun.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:53:12 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: Lazamataz; All
This is a STUNNING article from Salon....pass it on via Facebook etc.
Wow.
Shocked beyond words. Bush never did this and Obama outright said he wouldn’t even detain Americans without charges.
Now he says he has the right to just kill them at will?
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:53:39 AM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
To: kristinn
I never thought I'd see members of FreeRepublic advocating for the rights of a terrorist imam and tying the hands of our military and intelligence forces. The man is an enemy combatant whose death would disrupt Al Qaeda planning. More pertinently, by waging war on us he is committing insurrection against the United States. The Constitution has always provided a military solution to insurrections. No Miranda rights required.
It is fun seeing the liberals forced at last to deal seriously with the issues that we conservatives have been working on for almost ten years. Welcome to the grownup table, guys. If you don't like the food, we'll send you back to the kids' table in November.
To: kristinn
I am against the executive branch compiling hit lists of Americans, but Im willing to pretend I dont know anything about it in the case of an Islamic cleric named Anwar al-Awlaki who is an operative of Al Qaeda.
President huh authorized the what to kill who?
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:56:43 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I remember there was a big fuss over targeting Yamamoto during WWII. We broke their code and knew where/when he'd be somewhere and wanted to get him. I recall that there was considerable discussion on whether or not assassination of this type was OK in a war.
Only other example that I can think of is the lib's all-time favorite prez...President Bartlett wrestling with this issue from his post on the West Wing.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:56:46 AM PDT
by
skimbell
To: HiTech RedNeck
I rarely go to DU but went there the other day to see the reaction on the new Nuclear response policy and even some of those people had second thoughts. But I only stayed for a short time and there were not that many posts on the subject yet.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:57:34 AM PDT
by
unkus
To: OldNavyVet
If we can't get him in America, he should be targeted ... wherever he is.Great concept, until you realise that Obama decides, on October 4, 2010, that a fellow by the name of OldNavyVet on Free Republic is an enemy of the state, and must be killed.
OOPS, that didn't work out too well for ya, did it?
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:57:46 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: for-q-clinton
Really good question.
I am all for killing on the battlefield, but random assassination just anywhere....no.
Even someone as pro-war on terrorism as me says no to that.
That’s not acceptable. Now, if the person is actively involved on a plot on U.S. soil, say about ready to blow up a bomb right in front of you, yeah, kill.
But otherwise....this gives the government way too much power.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:59:06 AM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
To: toast
Fallacy. These men, who are named in the wanted posters, were convicted in a court of law -- either in absentia, or in person (and then escaped).
But thanks for playin'.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:59:25 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: kristinn; Redleg Duke; Travis McGee
"The danger [Your Name Here] poses to this country is no longer confined to words," said an American official... "Hes gotten involved in plots."Plots to participate in Tea Party rallies.
Plots to oppose/repeal Obamacare.
Plots to post anti-Obama comments on-line.
Plots to purchase firearms and ammunition.
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:03:19 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: Lazamataz
Good point. Obama needs to get the courts spun up and start trying all these terrorists in absentia so he can say they are guilty before he kills them.
That should make for some interesting antics. Trying an empty chair for terrorism.
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:04:04 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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