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Hopefully we'll see the outrage this deserves. If the president, any president, in the future can execute anyone he deems as long as they're "a threat" democra

• cperciva 14y ago
  If the president, any president, in the future can execute anyone he deems as long as they're "a threat" democracy is over. There's a very simple solution to this. The president can only authorize such targeted killings under his war powers, and only congress has power to declare war. If the US congress wants to prevent such targeted killings, all they have to do is pass a resolution stating that the US is no longer in a state of war -- at which point the war powers immediately evaporate and such killings become illegal.
• chc 14y ago
  Outrage is precisely what we need less of here. Cool rationality would have been a better approach. This guy did not say anything remotely like what you're saying, but because a bunch of Senators who play for the other political team presented it a certain way, you got outraged and were fooled into interpreting a guy saying "This could pretty much never happen" as "The president can assassinate anyone he deems a 'threat'".