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10-02-2011, 07:22 PM | #1 |
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This. Holy crap, this.
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10-02-2011, 08:15 PM | #2 |
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As a point of law, or a footnote in some romantic notion of fairness, the killing of Awlaki was wrong.
You could argue that he never picked up a gun and shot somebody, never strapped on vest and blew something up. He merely "counseled" people. He was al-Qaeda's Charlie Manson, (he never killed anybody either). The thing is, he joined the other team. Citizen or not, if you declare war on your own country, I don't see how you can claim the protection of that country's laws. The man was a self proclaimed terrorist, and there was no doubt of his intentions, yet some of you want to hold him up as an "American". Some things are wrong on principle, yet right in practicality. Anwar Awlaki was, in part, responsible for the events that led up to TSA agents feeling up your junk at airports. As far as I'm concerned, that's reason enough to bomb the prick. Fuck him. American or not, I'm glad he's dead. JC
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10-01-2011, 10:37 AM | #3 |
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so you're an above average american citizen, lol
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10-01-2011, 01:24 PM | #4 |
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This article makes the assumption that Presidential approval was obtained or even required.
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If Presidential approval was needed to kill Bin Laden, it was likely needed in this case. JC
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He knew the US and Yemeni governments were after him. He could have turned himself in to either government and used the opportunity to attempt to prove his innocence. Instead he decided to hide out and continue to call for Muslim violence against and within America. That it didn't work out so well is his tough shit. |
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He is the commander in chief. If people are taking this type of actions without his knowledge, he should of been out screaming this is NOT what we do to American citizens and people took action without his knowledge. This is HIS responsibility as the biggest boss of the military.
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I'm pretty sure America had about the same legal right to go in to Yemen and arrest him as they did to bomb him in Yemen, none without permission from the Yemeni government. It would appear the Yemeni government was OK with one of those options, the one our government took. It isn't like he was going to get arrested for driving without a license plate and having an invalid firearms permit in Oklahoma like Paul's example McVeigh. I'm not exactly sure how Paul expected Awlaki to be brought to his vision of justice from outside America's jurisdiction in a foreign country that may or may not have been willing to allow Awlaki to be grabbed and extradited to the US.
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I think if you self-identify as a member of enemy group, like AlQeda you wave your right to due process.
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