re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea

As much as I love civil liberties it seems to me there’s got to be some kind of wiggle room when a person so thoroughly repudiates their citizenship and actively works against the government, the nation, and its people.

Set aside Locke and De Toqueville for a second and go back to Hobbes: citizenship is not a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket, it’s a part of a social contract. And conspiring to inflict death an ruin on your fellow citizens suggests that someone isn’t holding up their part of the deal.

Basically, I think there’s a need to have a conversation about this event—it is heavy shit, in terms of precedent, to kill a citizen—but it’s going to have to been more that finger pointing and “you shouldn’t have done it.”

Again, I do not think nor argue that Obama’s actions and what followed were wrong or even unjustified. I am more interested with putting the common sense justifications into an understanding that provides a lot more depth of context in a legal and political sense.