The Obama administration had long argued that Mr. Awlaki, 40, had joined the enemy in wartime, shifting from propaganda to an operational role in plots against the United States, and last year it quietly decided that he could be targeted for capture or death...
Civil libertarians questioned how the government could take an American citizen’s life based on murky intelligence and without an investigation or trial, claiming that hunting and killing him would amount to summary execution without the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/wo...nal-issue.html
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution states that no American shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
In ordinary circumstances, that requires a trial and conviction before government officials can order an execution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/wo...ewanted=2&_r=1
Yes
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Booth certainly deserved a trial. The Constitution guarantees all Americans due process of law.
He was tracked down and shot by Boston Corbett, a Union soldier who acted against orders. Eight others were tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter.
Corbett was arrested but was later released by order of Wm. Stauton in a travesty of justice.
All kinds of people have been wrongly convicted. Does that mean the Constitution no longer applies?
Past injustices don't excuse present ones, do they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth
You know, when bypassing the constitution is convenient at the moment, almost everybody seems O.K. with it.
The slippery slope is geting steeper and slicker by the day.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
USFREEDOM911 (09-30-2011)
SmarterthanYou (09-30-2011)
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
So asking a question in a poll is "stretching the truth" and "fantasizing"?
Please. Don't be such a drama queen.
You know, if Bush had done this, the left would've been howling for his blood.
Nobody is above the law.
Well, I will if you stop being so pollyanna-ish. Are you such a glutton for attention? A poll? This is more about you than a real query. Nobody is stupid, except the usual suspects.
Look, either we have a war against terrorism, or we don't. Bush locked away enemy combatants.....and the left did howl.
You're up in arms about a "high-ranking" Al Qaeda operative, simply because he was an American citizen? He jettisoned his rights when he declared war on America......sorry.
You can't have it both ways, even though you're trying.
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