I'd shoot him and any other Al Qaeda planner without batting an eye, legal or not. He could be Arnold Schwarzeneggar's lovechild, and wrapping himself in the Red, White, and Blue, but if he was an Al Qaeda planner, I'd pull the trigger first and shed crocodile tears later.
Go the "Al Awlaki Killed" threads from last year(?) and see how many were grieving.
People on here are acting like this government has never run a hit on anyone in the past. That's crazy.
So now we're down to "ends justify means," expecting government to just kill fellow citizens without any due process just because they (supposedly) threaten you, thus putting you on the level of Lenin, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Congratulations. Just how much of a threat was Al Awlaki to you, personally, ginning up idiot terrorists in Yemen? Really. Please list the threats he posed that were so imminent you feel it necessary to blow off the Fifth Amendment because you couldn't wait for a judge to issue a warrant.
Go the "Al Awlaki Killed" threads from last year(?) and see how many were grieving.
As I said, this has NOTHING to do with whether or not he should have been killed, but whether we should empower the administrative branch of government to kill a citizen without the due process of law pursuant to the Constitution for the United States.
You know, that document that supposedly protects you that you'd now like to water down to nothing. I guess you don't care about that.
People on here are acting like this government has never run a hit on anyone in the past.
An American citizen is not just "anyone."
That's crazy.
No, you are, as you have amply shown. You are setting up provisions just as dangerously self-destructive as was the PATRIOT Act. We didn't need warrantless wiretaps to protect this country. We needed citizens to gather evidence, round up those Muzzie thugs, bring them to a court, and get them deported.