apparently, if a "suspected" killer, terrorist, plotter or maybe just a former military single issue opposed to immigration authority rejecting antigovernment radical who is deemed an imminent threat using the "broader concept " of imminence and American citizen happens to escape our borders and take up residence in a foreign land, it would be OK? for the government to send a drone in and shoot a hellfire missile into where ever he's pulled off to the side of the road and having lunch?
I'm not defending these guys and not saying they don't deserve it but we do have laws and they are "suspects" and considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law aren't they? this sets a very bad precedent...especially with an administration that tortures and broadens definitions so frequently..........I count three American Citizens suspected of crimes executed without trials...just sayin'....kinda opens the door for all sorts of misbehaviour......
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He was a boy who hadn't seen his father in two years, since his father had gone into hiding. He was a boy who knew his father was on an American kill list and who snuck out of his family's home in the early morning hours of September 4, 2011, to try to find him. He was a boy who was still searching for his father when his father was killed, and who, on the night he himself was killed, was saying goodbye to the second cousin with whom he'd lived while on his search, and the friends he'd made. He was a boy among boys, then; a boy among boys eating dinner by an open fire along the side of a road when an American drone came out of the sky and fired the missiles that killed them all.
Robert Gibbs Says Anwar al-Awlaki's Son, Killed By Drone Strike, Needs 'Far More Responsible Father'
Gibbs' comments were released the same day The Washington Post published an expose on the White House's growing database of people it believes it has the authority to kill without trial.
The American Civil Liberties Union warned Wednesday in a response that the policy of "bureaucratized paramilitary killing" is illegal and will backfire.
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Anyone who thought U.S. targeted killing outside of armed conflict was a narrow, emergency-based exception to the requirement of due process before a death sentence is being proven conclusively wrong," said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, in a statement. "The danger of dispensing with due process is obvious because without it, we cannot be assured that the people in the government's death database truly present a concrete, imminent threat to the country. What we do know is that tragic mistakes have been made, hundreds of civilian bystanders have died, and our government has even killed a 16-year-old U.S. citizen without acknowledging, let alone explaining his death.
no need to worry...it's not like they ever overreach or exceed their authority......
