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Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:09:56
by Mindflayer
Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if "an informed, high-level official" of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed "an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States" and if his capture was not feasible.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us ... a.xml?f=77
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:42:58
by OakRidgeStars
Enemy of the state.
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:01:13
by mamabearCali
Much like the no knock warrants that were once upon a time supposed to be only used in dire situations and are now SOP. I wonder how long till the gov't thinking you might be a threat gets you and your family killed by a hell-fire missel
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:27:28
by Wallace
Its just for Al Qaeda-Americans. They cant do it to American-Americans.
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:57:06
by DryBones
yet?
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:21:44
by GeneFrenkle
What's an American-American? Yet another kind of hyphenated American? I am so tired of all this hyphenation garbage.
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Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:52:14
by DryBones
I'm a Swedish-American. Am I safe?
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:55:57
by wpoppert
Mindflayer wrote:Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if "an informed, high-level official" of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed "an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States" and if his capture was not feasible.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us ... a.xml?f=77
No worries! I haven't seen "an informed, high-level official" in years!
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:38:05
by Kreutz
Not too long back a 16 year old girl in Iowa IIRC was arrested for "terroristic threats" after threatening to beat up another girl.
The "t" word will trickle down to encompass whomever and whatever is expedient.
Where are the activists protesting Dubyas water boarding of suspected terrorists anyway? It was wrong to torture them but its Ok for Obama to blow them up?
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:48:24
by VACoastie
http://abcnews.go.com/US/newtowns-wake- ... d=18421584
Next kids will be arrested and tried for shooting fake bullets from their fingertips.
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:53:43
by dorminWS
Kreutz wrote:Not too long back a 16 year old girl in Iowa IIRC was arrested for "terroristic threats" after threatening to beat up another girl.
The "t" word will trickle down to encompass whomever and whatever is expedient.
Where are the activists protesting Dubyas water boarding of suspected terrorists anyway? It was wrong to torture them but its Ok for Obama to blow them up?
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Not merely OK, but "legal" AND "moral"; according to Obama's press suck-retary.
I guess it's right, legal and moral if Obama did it no matter what he did.
Re: Obama Administration: OK to kill Americans
Posted: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:05:39
by DaRoller
Well, no trial, but they do get suspended, expelled, and/or pulled out of school by their parents:
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/1 ... ry-weapon/
http://newsitem.com/news/mention-of-bub ... -1.1431911
Various other stories of kids getting *questioned* (generally without parents present) for hours after similar events.