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Let's be honest here for a moment. Look at the monsters like drug dealers. Everyone knows for a fact they are doing it. I'm talking crime boss types, not some t

Let's be honest here for a moment. Look at the monsters like drug dealers. Everyone knows for a fact they are doing it. I'm talking crime boss types, not some thug on a street corner. Guys like Pablo Escobar. Colombia could have gotten him far sooner. Nothing like a few tier-one operators with knowledge of his comings and goings and they could take care of it. This is not extra-judicial in my mind. The state can sanction the taking of life without a court hearing for absolutely evil people. People like Pablo Escobar, and there are many like him just south of the US. They pay off the police to look the other way. Ditto judges. They terrorise their local authorities. Sanctioning the removal of these thugs is warranted.

pjc50 7y ago
The problem here is that a state-sanctioned surprise execution squad is an incredibly dangerous thing to have around, and usually ends up being worse than the cartels. Tends to collapse into execution of political enemies and the establishment of a totalitarian state pretty quickly, a la Pinochet.
- CompanionCuuube 7y ago
  How many of those which occur after a jury trial have "collapsed into execution of political enemies and the establishment of a totalitarian state"?
  - pjc50 7y ago
    Original comment said explicitly "The state can sanction the taking of life without a court hearing for absolutely evil people"
sokoloff 7y ago
> This is not extra-judicial in my mind. The state can sanction the taking of life without a court hearing for absolutely evil people. It’s literally and definitionally extra-judicial. You can maybe say that thing is ok for some reason but I don’t see how that thing can be “not that thing”.
nkrisc 7y ago
Who decides who is evil enough to kill without a trial?