re: #41 000G

So what do Lizards think about his being the first U.S. citizen having been approved for targeted killing (and subsequently having gotten killed) by a US President?

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.”