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Obama's Secret 'Kill List' Unites Far Right and Far Left

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Testy Toad T5/29/2012 11:15:28 am PDT

re: #34 EastSider

There is an implied subjective judgement on “crime committed” and “threat posed.” And while it is a long way off, conceptually those doing the judging could be killing people that myself (or yourself) do not deem worthy of death.

In my cookie world, being an American citizen should give you a right to a trial before a summary execution.

We are in a gray area where the rules of warfare are colliding with the rule of law. I am not sure where the right answer lies.

In my cookie world, being a human being should give you a right to a trial before a summary execution.

Citizenship doesn’t have a damned thing to do with it. Supposing extrajudicial killings are ever justified, if we’re not sure enough to kill one of our own, we have no business killing one of someone else’s.