Posted on 08/30/2010 7:13:52 PM PDT by La Lydia
WASHINGTON — Two human rights organizations went to court on Monday to challenge the Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric now hiding in Yemen. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of Mr. Awlaki’s father...argues that the United State government should not be permitted to kill an American citizen away from the battlefield and without judicial review.
The human rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, asked the court to prohibit the government from killing Mr. Awlaki until the lawsuit is heard...
The lawsuit is the first legal challenge since administration officials disclosed that Mr. Awlaki was the first American citizen to be designated for capture or killing by the Central Intelligence Agency. The authorization, which also applies to the Defense Department, came after intelligence agencies concluded early this year that Mr. Awlaki was actively participating in plotting attacks against the United States, including the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.
Since then, Mr. Awlaki has escalated his criticism of the United States in a series of written and recorded statements broadcast by Al Jazeera and posted on the Web. Calling the United States “a nation of evil,” Mr. Awlaki said in a March Web posting that “jihad against America is binding upon myself, just as it is binding on every other able Muslim.”
Obama administration officials have argued that Mr. Awlaki, now believed to be an operative of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen branch of the terrorist network, has essentially joined the enemy in a time of war. The government does not need a court’s permission to kill an enemy soldier, the officials say...
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When the Great Patriotic Counterevolution (GPC) in the USA finally does occur--in short order--that will come in handy.
Traitors.
Enemy Within. Pure and simple.
I agree. They are siding with someone who wants to kill all of us. This guy wouldn’t even be an American except for the birthright citizenship rule.
Must be worse than the USS Cole perp.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), original the Law Center for Constitutional Rights, was set up about 1964 by the Communist Party thru its congressional cited legal front, the “National Lawyers Guild” (NLG). Among the original founders were William Kunstler, a hardcore communist sympathizer, Arthur Kinoy, one of the top marxist/communist attorneys in the US, and id. CPUSA member Morton Stavis. Another CCR possibly founder is Peter Weiss, a German refugee who is a CPUSA sympathizer, married to Hanoi Lobby leader Cora Weiss (another CPUSA key sympathizer and Women Strike for Peace leader), and son-in-law of the late CPUSA supporter and possible member, Samuel Rubin (who has been described as a Soviet agent of influence, esp. during the Spanish Civil War).
The real leader of CCR today is marxist Michael Ratner, one of the brightest yet most hardcore leftist around. He is so anti-American that he makes the ACLU seem like the Federalist Society. His admission of being a marxist was published by the West Watch newsletter of the Council For Inter-American Security back in the 80’s.
Re the ACLU: Romero is a hardcore leftist and has been. Nothing rational-liberal about him and his polices. The ACLU and the CCR (and the other CPUSA front, the NECLC), are like twin peas in a hate-America, anti-American pod.
Great - yeah, we’re going to win this war.....:(
It DOES violate the Obama Administration’s stated policy of being nice to terrorists. I guess the reason Obama singles this terrorist out is that this one is an American citizen. As an American citizen, he has fewer rights than if he were a foreign national.
No the o is down and the left is going to finish the job. Raptors make bad liberal politics.
See also: Kamal Derwish
to challenge the Obama administration's decision to authorize the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
Good for the ACLU. It’s a shame no conservative group has joined them. Obama is CiC. He’s not God. (Submariners insert jokes here) Due process for US citizens doesn’t end at the border.
Talk about somebody not getting it. I'm disappointed. Freepers are usually smarter than that.
They don't give a rats ass whether this guy lives or dies. What they care about is establishing the precedent that the President of the United States can declare, without so much as a single hearing in any Court in the US, the he or she can kill anyone they like no matter where in the world they are.
Y'all are cheering now because it's some islamo nut job half way around the world. You'll be laughing out the other side of your faces when it's someone you agree with.
I cannot imagine the circumstances under which I would agree with someone who wants to kill millions of my fellow countrymen. I always thought Freepers were smarter than to side with the ACLU. Oh, and our government has been doing this since the Mexican War, but until now was always too smart to announce it.
This goes right back to Zer0’s idiotic decision to treat terrorists as civilians and try them as civilians.
Plus some new ones.
There are the so-called enemies within. They hate America. They are enablers of Enemy Combatants who kill American troops and civilians.
It is good these lists be made of these vermin. I hope they lurk here and get a sense of the outrage developing against them and their ilk. These traitors will wish they had gotten out of the USA while they could. I for one look with favor upon the return of enactment and enforcement of SEDITION LAWS in the United States once the anti-communist counterrevolution is in full bloom. Ready the courtrooms and the ropes.
Bingo. Sadly, some folks can't see outside the box. What goes around, comes around. Set precedence and anything goes.
” The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of Mr. Awlaki’s father...argues that the United State government should not be permitted to kill an American citizen away from the battlefield and without judicial review.”
I agree, this is a step way too far beyond the line. I don’t care what the man is accused of you can’t just kill him.
Now maybe if he’s resisting arrest and he gets killed in the process fine, but you got to try and capture him to put him on trial for treason.
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