Apologies to Glenn Greenwald, from whom I borrow the amazingly appropriate quote from Alice in Wonderland.
The Obama Administration, who last April targeted American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki for a kill-on-sight order by the CIA (and as of late has made missile strikes in Yemen to attempt to kill him... you might know Yemen as a country that the United States is not at war with, so hooray for American exceptionalism!), is now considering filing criminal charges against this American citizen just in case, you know, he gets captured alive by the Yemeni government before the CIA can kill him.
So yes, the American citizen that the CIA has been given a kill-on-sight order for has never been charged with a crime: "...counterterrorism officials regard al-Awlaki as a terrorist operative, not just a preacher, but they have revealed few specifics". Because, of course, the track record of the US means you should absolutely trust that anybody they say is a Bad Guy totally is and that is an excellent reason to invest the President with the authority to order the killing-without-trial of American citizens because that is totally a good thing for the President to be able to do that will never ever lead to bad things no sir.
The charge that is being floated around, according to the article, is "supporting terrorism", and the basis is "violent sermons" (what First Amendment?) and aiding in propaganda for Al-Qaeda. The sentence for that charge, incidentally, is 15 years. But of course that charge will only happen if the CIA fails in their mission to assassinate the American citizen before he ever goes to trial.
Barack Obama is an evil piece of shit. This is not a new opinion of mine, but I felt it bears mentioning. Every Democrat who supports this (the vast majority of them) is also an evil piece of shit, and so too is every Republican that does (the even vaster majority). Supporting the authority of the Dear Leader to assassinate American citizens without trial or even revealing specifics of their alleged crimes is anti-democratic, and that's about the nicest thing one can say about it. It's hard to think of a more dramatic overreaching of executive power than targeted killing of American citizens - even Bush never did anything like that. The joke of them now floating the idea of laying charges against him, many months after revealing his execution order, is just the icing on the cake.
He's an evil piece of shit. And so is everyone else who supports this. That is all.
The Obama Administration, who last April targeted American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki for a kill-on-sight order by the CIA (and as of late has made missile strikes in Yemen to attempt to kill him... you might know Yemen as a country that the United States is not at war with, so hooray for American exceptionalism!), is now considering filing criminal charges against this American citizen just in case, you know, he gets captured alive by the Yemeni government before the CIA can kill him.
So yes, the American citizen that the CIA has been given a kill-on-sight order for has never been charged with a crime: "...counterterrorism officials regard al-Awlaki as a terrorist operative, not just a preacher, but they have revealed few specifics". Because, of course, the track record of the US means you should absolutely trust that anybody they say is a Bad Guy totally is and that is an excellent reason to invest the President with the authority to order the killing-without-trial of American citizens because that is totally a good thing for the President to be able to do that will never ever lead to bad things no sir.
The charge that is being floated around, according to the article, is "supporting terrorism", and the basis is "violent sermons" (what First Amendment?) and aiding in propaganda for Al-Qaeda. The sentence for that charge, incidentally, is 15 years. But of course that charge will only happen if the CIA fails in their mission to assassinate the American citizen before he ever goes to trial.
Barack Obama is an evil piece of shit. This is not a new opinion of mine, but I felt it bears mentioning. Every Democrat who supports this (the vast majority of them) is also an evil piece of shit, and so too is every Republican that does (the even vaster majority). Supporting the authority of the Dear Leader to assassinate American citizens without trial or even revealing specifics of their alleged crimes is anti-democratic, and that's about the nicest thing one can say about it. It's hard to think of a more dramatic overreaching of executive power than targeted killing of American citizens - even Bush never did anything like that. The joke of them now floating the idea of laying charges against him, many months after revealing his execution order, is just the icing on the cake.
He's an evil piece of shit. And so is everyone else who supports this. That is all.