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There was no due process for the citizens that a former president ordered to be killed in a drone attack and justified it after the fact that they were enemy co
by lp0_on_fire 5y ago
There was no due process for the citizens that a former president ordered to be killed in a drone attack and justified it after the fact that they were enemy combatants.
That time it was probably the right call but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that that special relationship isn't flexible when the government deems it so.
- rootusrootus 5y agoIt is a pretty big step, however, from drone strikes against terrorists to kidnapping a US citizen and throwing them into a secret prison for committing a crime. The blowback would be immense, and the gov't knows it. Do I think they'd take a convenient opportunity, even extralegal, to snatch Snowden? Yep. But only to bring him back to the US to stand trial.
- ben_w 5y agoI’d like to think there would be immense blowback, but there was less than I expected and hoped for from his revelations. I’m still surprised by public figures denouncing him as a traitor. My thought processes seem to be nowhere near normal when it comes to politics. I’m not ASD (AFAICT), but I am definitely not neurotypical either.
- GeekyBear 5y agoObama killed American citizens with drone strikes. Trump normalized it. >Nawar "Nora" al-Awlaki was an eight-year-old American citizen of Yemeni descent who was killed on January 29, 2017 during the Raid on Yakla, a commando attack ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki It's hard to claim that citizenship affords you due process.