No surprise here. Open any can of nuts and Ron Paul will be right on top.
ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, “The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we’ve seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts. The government’s authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the President – any President – with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country.”
“As we have stated repeatedly in the past, the American Muslim community firmly repudiated Anwar al-Awlaki’s incitement to violence, which occurred after he left the United States. While a voice of hate has been eliminated,we urge our nation’s leaders to address the constitutional issues raised by the assassination of American citizens without due process of law.“
“No I don’t think that’s a good way to deal with our problems,” Paul said in a media avail after his remarks at the Politics + Eggs event here. “He was born here, Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it’s sad“. (Editor’s note: Boo fooking hoo)
Someone is messing around with those ‘heart’ votes. Nice to see a Muslim from the ACLU telling infidels how to behave./
@ yenta-fada:
Muck the Fuslims!
How come we criticize Israel for doing the same?
@ yenta-fada:
All the
Caliphate
Loves
Us!
Speranza wrote:
I’m having days of quiet desperation over the Middle East. Actually, I’m not all that quiet, but nobody listens.
Macker wrote:
I don’t think Paul quite gets it…
Al-Awlaki was an ISLAMIC IMPERIALIST bent on world conquest fisabeel Allah, according to his own admission…
ROTFLMAO… Well if Ron Paul, CAIR and the ACLU all Agree it was the wrong thing to do, that means it was the right thing to do. Mwahhh
Does due process require the presumption of innocence? When the American has openly confessed his enmity to his nation? In other words an open confession of treason should be enough to forfeit civilian due process. “Kill or capture” executive order for military enforcement is recognition of enemy combatant status -- self-imposed -- by terrorists.
Paul and others who think due process -- which is now becoming substantive due process under liberal judiciaries -- is some kind of ritual that must be adhered to as a witch-doctor adheres to mumbo-jumbo in order to keep this country on a moral footing are irrational and superstitious.
We are developing a hybrid due process between war and law to deal with these enemy-citizen mass-murdering combatants.
@ doriangrey:
Further proof, if it was needed, that Prawn Roll is nuttier than a stack of fruitcakes. A ‘Republican’ in agreement with the ACLU, ‘CAIR’ (which I don’t) over offing a terrorist, and who would even consider Dennis Kucinich as a Cabinet member, has about as much business in the party as Michael Moore.
@Overlook
“We are developing a hybrid due process between war and law to deal with these enemy-citizen mass-murdering combatants.”
THAT IS A THREAD & an excellent encapsulation of a major problem.
Perhaps you can submit that as a post to the blog admins.
Fuck Ron Paul, CAIR and the ACLU.
Add them to the list, as far as I’m concerned.
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