"Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and Senators don't have men killed."
"Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?"
Posted on 03/08/2012 11:34:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Edge of a wedge. It will eventually be used on inconvenient people.
ML/NJ
It would sound easy enough to justify such assassination orders on Americans who have gone to foreign countries and waged war on US forces. But this same administration is so bent out of shape that a terrorist from a foreign country, having come to the US to perform an act of war, might not be treated himself as a mere criminal. Surely the irony is not lost?
Even Lincoln generally used the courts-martial.
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you need to merely threaten to report me to the Admin if I don’t add you to the list...
he’s doing a pretty good job of killing most of us...
Remember how Big Brother and the Holder Company oh-so-vehemently had to put the terrorists at GITMO into the civilian justice system?...
... Yet, Americans can be killed for being labeled “terrorists” by this regime. IMO, the killing of al-Ahlawki was the show horse... the regime’s example of all the “good” that comes from this policy.
But of course... remember in 2009, how Pig Sis Napolitano labeled Tea Partiers, pro-lifers, returning veterans and pro-2nd Amendment Americans as terror threats?
BTW...is death by poisoning considered “natural causes” in medical parlance?
"Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and Senators don't have men killed."
"Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?"
The Judge mentions the Nazi saboteurs. They were on American soil. Does he not see that as the deciding factor? Does the Judge think we would have been allowed to kill John Walker Lindh? He is an American.
This type of thinking tends to confuse a common law criminal with a person actively engaged in war against the United States. Imagine a German American in 1941 going to Germany and joining the Wehrmacht. Would the author of this article then claim he should be hunted down, arrested and tried in a court? No he would have died on the Battle field as he should.
Ngo Dinh Diem was not available for comment.
Try them in absentia if necessary.
NSA electronic surveillance will pick up two very important words from the title of this post. Anything posted thereafter will certainly be scrutinized. Count on it.
Neither is Andrew Breitbart...
There must have been a lot of them and they must never have slept. Maybe you could argue that Lincoln didn't pull the trigger and didn't burn the buildings but a whole lot of Americans were killed and their properties destroyed during Sherman's March to the Sea.
ML/NJ
Targeted for an assassination, or confronted as another enemy combatant on a battle field facing the normal procedure of war offensives? I think the quailing is about targeting for an assassination. This is the edge of the wedge.
If they are on the battlefield fighting against US or allied forces, then yes kill them. If they are held up somewhere performing terrorist acts against the US, try in abstentia and convict, then go after them.
That wasn’t personal, that was war en masse. This is talking about assassinations.
Well, given the outcomes of Waco, Ruby Ridge, and few other incidents, I’d say the answer was “YES” long before this particular issue arose.
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