Justice denied: Obama must defend killing citizens without a trial

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30. Yep, but you can't really say that

So we're treated to preposterous scenarios and all the "what ifs": What if those awful, awful people don't turn themselves in to the people who want to summarily execute them? They're practically fleeing felons (who've never been charged, never arrested, and have no indication they've been marked for death)! What if there were Nazis? And frogmen off the coast? And Nazi frogmen? Would you shitcan the Constitution then? Huh? Huh? Huh? What about that?

No. No, I'm not willing to sacrifice the Constitution because some people are wet-their-pants scared. Despite the rhetoric of tyrants ("My job is to protect the people!&quot we keep hearing, our elected officials are supposed to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, not the American people. Without the Constitution, there is no United States. And without our constitutional system of due process and judicial review, our system isn't the United States, even if it retains some of the accoutrements of our former democracy.