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And note that not only is this without any due process (Obama has publically argued that the Bush administration imprisoning American citizens without due process is unconstitutional, incidentally), but the person in question has denied the charges via his family. And as we all know quite well, American intelligence on "terrorists" has not proven to be foolproof, to say the least.
So, on suspicion of being a scary brown person, the president has now authorised the execution without trial of an American citizen, something even the Bush administration never did - indeed, something that appears to have no legal precedent in the country's history. Mind you, it is a "kill on sight" order rather than an actual, technical, targeted assassination (as far as we know), but it takes some real balls to pull a stunt that gets the National Review saying "Well that's just going a bit too far".
Can we stop calling him a left-winger now?
And note that not only is this without any due process (Obama has publically argued that the Bush administration imprisoning American citizens without due process is unconstitutional, incidentally), but the person in question has denied the charges via his family. And as we all know quite well, American intelligence on "terrorists" has not proven to be foolproof, to say the least.
So, on suspicion of being a scary brown person, the president has now authorised the execution without trial of an American citizen, something even the Bush administration never did - indeed, something that appears to have no legal precedent in the country's history. Mind you, it is a "kill on sight" order rather than an actual, technical, targeted assassination (as far as we know), but it takes some real balls to pull a stunt that gets the National Review saying "Well that's just going a bit too far".
Can we stop calling him a left-winger now?