Putting "death selection" in the hands of powerful men acting in secret and unconstrained by the rule of law, is tyranny. It doesn't matter whether the selection and execution is done by a Democrat or Republican administration, by the medicoes or the military: an Obamacare death panel, a secret White House NSC committee, a board of medical ethicists with PhD's after their names and ice-water in their veins, or the Reichsführer-SS. The outcome is the same. It's murder.
People are cravenly going along with this for now, because Obama has calculatingly begun by snuffing a guy that not many people will wring their hands and boo-hoo about. Don't we realize that that's how precedents are made?
This is the exercise of raw despotic power in a style V.I.Lenin would have loved. It is grounds for impeachment in itself: yes, moreso, I would say, that even Fast and Furious.
If we wink and nod at this, you and I, we are deeply corrupt and we will deseve everything we get. Including the final shiv between our own shoulder blades.
I’m also with you. And you are absolutely correct about the fact that this sets a precedent. I’m just wracking my brain trying to understand why freepers are ok with this. As far as I know, there is nothing in our legal history that is even closely akin to this situation. I’ve heard WWII used as an argument, but that was a declared war. When did we declare war on Yemen?
I’ve seen the Immigration and Nationality Act mentioned as a reason for the action....but that act states the person in question as being actively involved the armed forces of another nation (when did al-qaeda become a nation-state?)...and if they want to analogize the situation using that statute, then we would be wrong in having Gitmo...if they’re equating this to dealing with a nation-state, then we’d have to adhere to the Geneva Conventions. If that makes sense...can’t have it both ways.
Even Megyn Kelly on Bill O’Reilly last night admitted it was murky, but didn’t think it was going anywhere. As I’ve said on my previous posts, if it can happen to one American citizen, evil man that he was, it can happen to us all and I don’t like it one damn bit. Especially when people like you and I are already labeled “terrorists” and “racists” because of our desire to adhere to the original intent of the Constitution and the founding of this country.