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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TopCat who wrote (769569)2/14/2014 3:30:43 PM
From: steve harris1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1574056
 
I do not view the police stopping a criminal in the process of executing a crime as being the same as assassinating an American Citizen that produces some youtube videos. We're back to discussing is a policeman shooting a criminal acting as judge and jury? Sure, the criminal has a knife to someone's throat, sure, blow him away.

Is there a point you would change your view? A president using drones in Dallas? Waco? Ruby Ridge?

Here's a good read from a left wing site:
cnn.com

I would highlight these passages:

Critics, however, say the government oversteps the legal boundaries of the Constitution and international law, particularly by making decisions on targeted killings in secret without going before any court.

Hina Shamsi, who directs the ACLU's National Security Project, told CNN that the Obama administration was "fighting hard" to prevent a judicial review of the strikes that killed al-Awlaki and the other Americans, including the terrorist's 16-year-old son.

U.S. District Judge John Bates called it "somewhat unsettling" that a president could -- for national security reasons -- make a unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizen overseas and the decision would be "judicially unreviewable."
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