Wow... It Gets WAAAY Worse... 'Whom Can The President Kill ?' - TheNewYorker (We Are Now Nixon)

[Nuclear Unicorn]

49. I'm no fan of the Occupy movement

But suppose, just suppose, they're still around when the next Republican is elected and that president says, "Hm-m-m...a few of them have been convicted for trying to build bombs and stuff. Hey! It's an ideologically motivated act of violence so that makes it terrorism."

He wouldn't need to use drones, which would make a mess of US streets, he could just order them rounded-up and disappeared. Bullet behind the ear or missile through the window; dead is still dead. And Work-a-Day Joe won't complain. All he knows is that someone finally did something about all the dirty hippies cluttering up the sidewalks and roads he uses to get to the office.

However, I've been told that slippery slope arguments are a logical fallacy; so I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. Nothing at all. We have absolutely nothing to fear, so everyone just go back to doing whatever it was they were doing before. It'll all be okay.