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> If his father was involved in terrorism and you think drone strikes are OK, why would you have extra sympathy for him because he's a US citizen? As of April

> If his father was involved in terrorism and you think drone strikes are OK, why would you have extra sympathy for him because he's a US citizen? As of April 2010, the open, stated objective of the CIA was to kill Aulaqi's father (and others on President Obama's "hit list") and, if and only if he could not be killed, to arrest him, charge him formally, and bring him to trial. In other words, "if we can kill him, we don't have to prove he was actually guilty." I don't support the drone strikes against non-US citizens, but the idea that a single executive can issue capital punishment on a US citizen[1] without a trial is downright unnerving. Imagine if police officers wielded that same level of power - it's no different. [1] The US Constitution does not provide the same levels of protection to non-Citizens, which is why drone-strikes on foreigners is still disgusting but not as terrifying (from the perspective of a US citizen).

stcredzero 14y ago
> Imagine if police officers wielded that same level of power - it's no different. Seems to me that there are plenty of police officers who try through the claim of self defense.
joeyo 14y ago
>[1] The US Constitution does not provide the same levels of > protection to non-Citizens, which is why drone-strikes on > foreigners is still disgusting but not as terrifying (from > the perspective of a US citizen). I hear this asserted frequently but it is simply not the case. There are a very few places where the citizenship requirement is explicitly stated (e.g. voting or holding public office), but generically the US Constitution refers to "persons" not citizens. For a scholarly article on this topic, see: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=facpub http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

stcredzero 14y ago

> Imagine if police officers wielded that same level of power - it's no different. Seems to me that there are plenty of police officers who try through the claim of self defense.

joeyo 14y ago

>[1] The US Constitution does not provide the same levels of > protection to non-Citizens, which is why drone-strikes on > foreigners is still disgusting but not as terrifying (from > the perspective of a US citizen). I hear this asserted frequently but it is simply not the case. There are a very few places where the citizenship requirement is explicitly stated (e.g. voting or holding public office), but generically the US Constitution refers to "persons" not citizens. For a scholarly article on this topic, see: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=facpub http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...