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Sorry that my mention of the Pledge of the Allegiance set you off. My point was that American ideals have always been that everyone deserves a fair trial & due
by joshfraser 13y ago
Sorry that my mention of the Pledge of the Allegiance set you off. My point was that American ideals have always been that everyone deserves a fair trial & due process.
Peacetime assassinations have been officially banned by the US since 1976. The AUMF gets around that by saying we're perpetually at war now. The AUMF is part of the problem.
- rayiner 13y agoMy point is that mentioning the pledge of allegiance, written a century after the founding, to justify "american ideals" that have always existed is historical revisionism. The fact is that the framers didn't think blacks in America had rights, and codified that into the Constitution. You think they believed that brown people in Yemen had rights? Its absurd historical revisionism. You think Thomas Jefferson sent the Navy to Tripoli to give people trials and due process? Rights apply to citizens and those who are under our jurisdiction by virtue of being present on U.S. soil. Its not something that protects foreigners from American military action. No nation I'm aware of disparages the sovereign right of nations to meet foreign aggression with like.