Report: US to offer legal backing for 'targeted killings' of Americans overseas

Like you said. Mistakes happen. Would really suck if you ended up on a list by mistake. But its ok! Obama "promised" not to use his authority under the bill. Then again we all know what good a politicians promise is..

 

Conspiracy theorists? Its (*)(*)(*)(*)ing history man. Learn from it.

Sure it CAN happen its LAW now. They wouldnt have passed the LAW if they never wanted to use it.

 

All speculative...

It does you no good to live in fear under the guise that something might happen...

This is all in response to the killing of al-Awlaki, who, by the way, was not some random American...

He was a guy who self-identified as part of an enemy terrorist group, and promoted killing civilians...

Nobody has arbitrarily targeted American citizens...

 

There is no law that is set up so they can randomly target American citizens...

 

Yet... Of course it might happen. NDAA lets it happen. There wouldnt be discussion of it if NDAA wasnt law. NDAA got overwhelming support in Congress. The one thing R and D can agree on is tyranny.

 

It still doesn't sound like even NDAA allows the government to randomly arrest US citizens and hold them indefinitely...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/ndaa.asp

 

While I agree that al-Awaki and his henchman was indeed a bad person in that he was a dedicated Islamonazi well intune with the overall vision of death and murder everywhere, they were both American citizens. That has with it a conotation of some dignity in principle as to their persons as well as an obligation to the rule of law and due process that we citizens so dearly cherish. President Soetoro was punch drunk after the illimination of public enemy #1 in Pakistan, we was not a citizen and he got what he deserved. But al-Awaki was a citizen. Do I have a sugestion as to how it could have been hanled differently, no, not really. Though some creative mission could have been attempted before resorting to the assasination od an American citizen. This is a bad precident, and Holder and Soetoro's seeking for legal cover suggests that they think so too.

 

I believe "unlawful enemy combatant" may have something to do with it...

Just saying...

 

That does fit, and so does "defending America against all enemies foreign and domestic", I'm just saying that being a citizen of this country may entitle even the most vile of villians some level of treatment above what bin Laden recieved. Its like applying a different standard to those who are citizens.

 

I hear you, but, getting yourself into the unlawful enemy combatant category changes things drastically...

 

The problem is who will watch the Administration on this. Everything is on the Q T and there will be no real noise. To take away basic rights given us by the Constitution is shameful. I do not support terrorists, but to think if you ticked off the wrong people because of a protest or something like that, it could be blown up to more "trumped charges" and then you are in a dark cell, no lawyer to call, nothing. This could end up being something like a political prisoner and no one would ever be the wiser. This is a scary time and I don't think history will look too kindly to it.