Why can't you let people on the kill list defend themselves or at least surrender?

[Demo_Chris]

82. It's amazing how these things progress

A decade ago we were shocked at the idea that the government might secretly read a few emails to foreign recipients and listen in on phone calls to identified terrorists. If you weren't phoning AQ in Kabul you had nothing to worry about. Ten years later here we are. Now the government is claiming the legal authority to kill anyone they want, whenever they want, with no oversight or supervision, secret rules of engagement, no questions or review. And this is our guy.

From reading a few emails to this in a decade. It won't stop here of course. They want more power than just this.

Ten years from now where will we be?


What special and necessary power is President Ryan or President Paul going to be wielding? You can say, "Oh they'd never do that!" but that's what people said at prior to every step along this path. Spy on regular people? No way! Torture? No way! Indefinate detention without a trial? Not a chance! Killing Americans without a trial? What are you, a freaking nut?!

So yeah, anyone who says they would NEVER fire a hellfire into an Occupy drum circle or a Code Pink meeting or an abortion clinic is kidding themselves. Of course they would. It's not like they have some ethical reason not to. They won't today, or next week, but that day is coming. Sadly, that day is on it's way.