The kid wasn't a terrorist. He wasn't radicalized. The two family members who were had been killed two weeks before.
At a minimum is a due process issue. On Oct 15, 2013 5:44 PM, "Justin Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Obama ordered a drone strike targeting and killing a US citizen, Anwar > > al-Awlaki. His son (who was 16) was also killed is a subsequent drone > > strike but it is not clear that he was specifically targeted. Eric Holder > > has publicly admitted that al-Awlaki was targeted and that they knew he > was > > a citizen. His citizenship was never revoked. The administration > justified > > it under rules of war being conducted on foreign soil. > > Citizen or not, I think he'd have a pretty good defense if this was > the basis for impeachment. After all, government representatives kill > US Citizens all the time when they present an imminent danger to the > public (e.g. police officers kill Citizens in the line of duty all the > time). I'd say that directly assisting a terrorist organization with > the goal of planning and executing terrorist attacks qualifies as > presenting an imminent danger. The argument that others are bringing > up about holding him responsible for defaulting on the debt is more > complex and I don't fully understand how that works, but even that > sounds more plausible than taking out a terrorist (citizen or not). > > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367789 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
