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In reply to the discussion: America Is Preparing to Murder Its 5th Citizen by 'Remote Assassination' [View all]okaawhatever
(9,563 posts)accuracy and integrity of some.....I would say we're coming up with an alternative process when trial by jury isn't an available option. We aren't choosing this over trial by jury, it's that the defendant hasn't given us a choice. While I agree that information isn't always on the "up and up" I do think with the Obama administration he's probably made sure he's covered his butt with facts and data to support this. He's the one who will be on trial at the Hague if he can't back this up.
Yes, I'm concerned with Bush and Cheney having the same ability, but I don't kid myself. If Cheney did it, we wouldn't know about it. I don't think for a second he'd leave the paper trail that Obama has. He'd probably take some cash from a black account and contact someone he knows in a foreign government to send their people out after the individual.
There are certainly issues any way you look at it, Congress tried to pass a bill in 2012 that dealt with these situations. It was sponsored by Leiberman but the neo-cons spread the rumor that Obama would use it to come take people's guns and put them in FEMA camps and strip their citizenship. (No kidding, that's where a lot of it started) so we're left with Obama possibly having to prove one day that aThatn individual had renounced their citizenship through their actions by taking up arms for a foreign organization that was a threat to the US.
Not an ideal situation, but based on the info I've seen on two or three of the other US citizens they deaded, I'd say there was a clear and present threat to security and quite a bit of information as to their political goals. That's just my two cents.