Your government can kill you, if…
Anyway, here is what the lawyers to the president’s lawyer say about the legality of killing Americans who are constituted as al Qaeda or al Qaeda-linked threats. (The memo makes it clear that its language does not apply to other instances where American citizens might be killed by their government.)
1. “An informed, high-level official” must determine that the person represents “an imminent threat” of “violent attack against the United States.”
2. Capturing the dude is “infeasible,” and the government will continue to assess whether capturing him is feasible.
3. The killing, or “lethal operation,” must be conducted according to the laws of war. …
So here’s what that means: Even if the person is not actively planning terrorist attacks against the U.S., because of the nature of terrorist attacks in general, merely his membership in an organization that is planning those attacks meets the requisite definition of imminence.
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First them, then you.
Goebbels is most happy.
Obama is a criminal.
Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 7:47 PM
What this means is that if they want to wipe out the Amish, they’ll claim that they’re an Al-Qaeda linked group whos issuing threats. Who wants to waste the time, energy and money to capture, due process, trial yada yada yada? This is much easier.
tommy71 on February 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM
Very dangerous – No one consented to this, no one.
Thugs run the land.
This better go to court, soon.
Otherwise, enjoy the dictator who can kill any of you, any time, anywhere, for any reason, imagined or real.
Strange…the leftists were defending rag-muffins after 9/11, yes, the ones without uniforms…now they hypocritical swine are MIA.
Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM
Not only that but this regime also owns the Lame Stream Media – which would work overtime propagandizing and manufacturing “evidence” against the Amish if Dear Leader decided he wanted them in his sites.
HondaV65 on February 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM
… Obama says you’ve had enough health care already.
Glenn Jericho on February 5, 2013 at 7:53 PM
Funny. When they belong to Hizballah, they’re called civilians and imported in to Dearborn.
Ben Hur on February 5, 2013 at 7:53 PM
Your neighbor can deem any of you a terrorist now.
Oh, and Obama said that “terrorism is over” and for a time the term was not used any more.
Oh, you azzholes on the left, may hypocrisy consume all of you. The world w/b so much freer. YOU are the bottom of the world’s scum. YOU are never liberal or progressive, never.
Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM
Yeah, I did see it somewhere that this is wrong!
jaydee_007 on February 5, 2013 at 7:56 PM
Soon this will happen in the US. But capturing the target is feasible in the US, you say? Not if the government says you are holed up, Waco-style and capturing you is inconvenient. 100 other civilians as collateral damage? Gotta break some eggs, I suppose.
Firefly_76 on February 5, 2013 at 7:57 PM
At least when the Russians assassinate those they deem ‘enemies of the state,’ they use a little polonium against an individual and keep it largely under wraps /
Where is the OUTRAGE?????!!!!!! Where are you liberals to defend this?
Firefly_76 on February 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM
your name comes up on the death panels. Which death panel? There seem to be so many nowadays…
HotAirian on February 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM
Conspiracy to Commit Murder
db on February 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM
Laws of war? Is this some kind of sick joke? How can you wipe someone out in a country we’re not at war with a missile, and call it lawful? What makes Yemen different than Mexico or Canada?
claudius on February 5, 2013 at 8:05 PM
claudius on February 5, 2013 at 8:05 PM
That’s why it’s labeled the GWOT (Global War on Terror), and I presume Yemen is ok with it …
Can you IMAGINE the outcry if China droned a dissident in NYC, taking out a few dozen civilians, and then said “oops, our bad.”
Firefly_76 on February 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM
Still waiting for Obama to overturn the 22nd Amendment by his lonesome…
John the Libertarian on February 5, 2013 at 8:12 PM
It’s funny to me that the Dims, as a minority party – managed to intimidate G.W. and the rest of the GOP into NOT doing anything about Freddie and Fannie.
And here we have a POTUS who violates the constitution daily and the SOB’s in the GOP do nothing.
Sad.
HondaV65 on February 5, 2013 at 8:15 PM
I hope he tries.
HondaV65 on February 5, 2013 at 8:16 PM
If you let it, otherwise it is ultimately the citizenry’s Constitutional duty to kill it.
Bmore on February 5, 2013 at 8:18 PM
Would this count as a high crime or misdemeanor?
agmartin on February 5, 2013 at 8:20 PM
A story built for endorsing concealed carry.
Bmore on February 5, 2013 at 8:25 PM
They kept funding his war in Iraq, so he backed off.
John the Libertarian on February 5, 2013 at 9:22 PM
No questions answered
Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 9:30 PM
…Mommy decides she doesn’t want you and Daddy won’t pay for it.
CurtZHP on February 5, 2013 at 9:31 PM
Sorry…but I have no problem if Obama wants to drop a Hellfire missile on some turban wearing traitor or his spawn.
Plotting against America on foreign soil is good enough reason for me.
NeoKong on February 5, 2013 at 9:46 PM
But there is due process to follow before depriving any citizen of life. Stripping that person of citizenship is a process too. Follow it, then fire for effect.
Washington Nearsider on February 5, 2013 at 9:51 PM
Not to me.
I consider them an enemy combatant or a terror suspect.
Both in my opinion are acts of war.
NeoKong on February 5, 2013 at 10:08 PM
Ok let me get this straight. It’s Ok to kill an American citizen if somebody thinks he might pose a threat but it’s a war crime to waterboard a known terrorist to extract information that might save innocent lives. Is that about right? This is the logic of the government that thinks I shouldn’t be allowed to buy scary looking gun? This is the government that’s in charge of our health care? We’re in deep kim-chee.
Oldnuke on February 5, 2013 at 10:14 PM
Gee, funny how killing Awlaki put us all in danger, and when I said so back when it first happened it would put us all in danger I was stupid and did not care about our nation. Now it looks like I was right and the bandwagon has been overloaded.
astonerii on February 5, 2013 at 10:48 PM
You’ve hit the point where you’ve made enough money, and then make some more.
The Rogue Tomato on February 6, 2013 at 12:48 AM
You photoshop a picture of dear leader doing anything, especially shooting a shotgun.
The Rogue Tomato on February 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM
You’re not always the brightest bulb in the socket, but I do wonder how many of the same people who railed at you were the same people who thought we could turn Afcr@pistan and Iraq into a “mom-God-Apple Pie” democracy in a few years. Or for that matter, cheered the
EnablingPatriot Acts.MelonCollie on February 6, 2013 at 9:57 AM