http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...02301252340820.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories No one has posted on this yet? Since this is the first time I believe since the Civil War, that the federal government basically aims to kill an American Citizen is this to be feared or viewed positively? Personally I'm taken aback by this, I have to wonder that the idea of federal government now targeting citizens with Death without due process and all that jazz. Just doesn't seem right at all. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it but still this is scary.
There's been a few other threads on the subject. You're right to be concerned. America has reached a new low.
Its not like he was out helping old ladies cross the road is it...trial or not he knew he had it coming.
I don't know. I have no knowledge of what he was doing, other than the information coming from the people who killed him. Their story is going to be slightly biased, don't you think?
Yes, the whole idea of no due process just isn't right. Have we been so brainwash now the US Federal Government can kill citizens without due process of our own laws? Yet I see that many of my conservative friends seem to have little issue about this? I hope, I am wrong!
I would have to agree. He may have been a terrorist, but he was American, and as we all know, each American life is worth 10 Canadians, 20 Australians, 50 Europeans, 1,000 South Americans, 100,000 Asians, and about 1,000,000 Africans. Presidents can authorize all the bombings and killings they want in other countries, but if even a single American is killed.... I shudder to think.
The simple answer is, yes. The public is scared to the point of paranoia and they're willing to let the Government do anything in order to "protect" them.
How on earth did this terrorist thug become an American citizen? We in the West, unless we get rid of PC, will soon be writing our own collective political epitah. Your suggestion, that we should have given this thug a trial, will hasten the day that the West will surely vanish into oblivion.
He lost all rights of an American citizenship when we became a terrorist. I'm sure most American wont be crying an abundance of tears over his (timely) demise. Even PC must have its limits.
We have a Constitution and a set of laws, which last time I have looked doesn't give the Federal Government a choice of whom to kill and not to kill. Whenever a government is willing to kill the citizens, I would think that isn't a good sign. Now I understand what the claims were and likely those claims were true, still without due process of law the government has no authority to plan an execution of a citizen. So if anyone scares us or the government that person gives up his or her constitutional rights?
Well he was born in the US so that kind of makes him an american citizen. Also, i think that he was an american citizen before he became a terrorist thug.
...as I said in another topic about it, I do have issue...it's nothing more then for Obama to get votes... Kabuki Joe
Well yes, that is obviously true! So some people have problems with signs that poke fun at the Messiah Obama but have no problem with the Messiah ordering death from above to an American Citizen. I do not believe I'm alive to witness such actions in our great nation.
The Constitution was always the ideal, but the real world rarely lives up to the ideal. The reality is that the US Government has always killed its citizens throughout its history. Take the 1960s a lot of activists were killed by CIA including Martin Luther King Jr.. I also wouldn't be surprised to find this kind of thing happening throughout the 1800s especially before long-distance communication made covering things up hard to do. At least now-a-days the government isn't as willing to kill its own citizens as much as it was in the past -- they don't target you just for protesting. In that way the USA has improved over time, even though you think we are worse than ever. Well, we are worse than we were during the 1990s but overall we are still ahead of history.
