Drone Strke on American Al Qaeda

[Eric P]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...cmp=latestnews

I see no conflict in this decision. Once you plan and/or fund attacks on Americans, you lost your US citizenship. Take him out ASAP. Or take him out as collateral damage while meeting with other terrorists.

[Colorado Osprey]

Although morally I have no problem, I also see that we have an obligation to not just execute American Citizens without a trail.
Once you set in motion using drone strikes to kill American Citizens without trial, it won't be long before it is used on US soil to execute "dometic terrorists" or Patriots.

[Hound]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...cmp=latestnews

I see no conflict in this decision. Once you plan and/or fund attacks on Americans, you lost your US citizenship. Take him out ASAP. Or take him out as collateral damage while meeting with other terrorists.

Ya, due process... It really is overrated. If your government "SUSPECTS" you are a terrorist, all they need to do is slap that label on you and an execution is justified. This is the real reason for the Constitution. Back in the day when the British could just barge into your house, search through your house and then kill you in the name of the king it was all good. We really need to get back to the Good ol' Days!!! The forefathers saw this and wrote the Constitution so a few hundred years later your toilet paper needs would never go unfulfilled. They expected you to pick and choose what part you like and which parts you don't. Hey, this guy even left America. How dare he leave the land of the free. You do know that when you step foot off American land you are no longer protected by that pesky Constitution from your own government. America is different from the British Empire who imposed their will on the rest of the world! We are not an empire and this is really just a plot by those liberals that do read the Constitution "the potential domestic fallout of killing an American without charging him with a crime or trying him, and the potential international fallout of such an operation in a country that has been resistant to U.S. action." Those US officials are just pussies afraid to use the full might of our empire.... I mean our free country. You got it. To hell with sovereignty, we are America. We can go anywhere, do anything.... Because we are America!! By God!!! Our Government has said so!!!

And I know you always trust our Government... Because you are an American, protected by the Constitution!!!!! Rights?? If the Government says you are even SUSPECTED of being a terrorist you have the right to death from above!!! This all could have been taken care of centuries ago if the British had just taken care of their terrorists...you know... The forefathers.

[Gman]

The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn't completed.

This will probably fall under 'more selective enforcement from the Teleprompter in Chief'.

[GilpinGuy]

Maybe I'm off base here but my first thought is to smoke the traitorous bastard. Is a drone strike much different than a sniper spotting him with a group of Taliban f*cks in the field and killing him?

[Hound]

Maybe I'm off base here but my first thought is to smoke the traitorous bastard. Is a drone strike much different than a sniper spotting him with a group of Taliban f*cks in the field and killing him?

It does not matter how you kill him at this point. The issue is that as an American we ALL get due process. If you don't ensure due process, per the Constitution, then we are all at great risk from a totalitarian government that only has to label a person as a 'terrorist' to do anything they want. If he is guilty then it should be easy to prove in a court of law.

[drew890]

I'm glad the british didn't have drones in 1776.

[blacklabel]

At least they're considering that due process should occur.

The guy should most likely be executed for his transgressions but not until he's found guilty in as close to a proper trial as can take place considering he's out humping sheep.

[Dave]

But the same gov't is relaxing restriction on immigrants who have aided terrorists before....

[Kmanbay]

I'm good with the death penalty AFTER he is tried in a US court of law, however if during the "arrest/capture" process he is fatally wounded then so be it.

The general public is so afraid of the ever present fear of attack from a "terrorist, that they have long ago begun the slippery path of security trumping freedoms. The founding fathers tried their best to set us up for prosperity but over time our focus has changed and memories faded (taught redacted history) from patriot to whiners; depending on the same government, the founders sought to protect us from, into over taxed citizens, over spending legislators and handout expecting slaves.