Title: ORourke1 Signature
Reaction from Glenn Reynolds (law professor) is ambivalent.

Not sure about the government targeting its own citizens, but if anyone was begging for it, this would be the guy. The precedent is still unsettling, though. The way this administration works, Republicans and Libertarians could be next. After all, the "Tea Party" folks are "racists" and "terrorists."

David

"A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force."--P. J. O’Rourke

On 4/7/2010 2:50 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
I'll be curious to see how the right wing reacts to this (if at all)...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.

Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding in Yemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November, and then to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.
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