Obama Drone Attack KILLS Ameicans and Italians.

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102. There were Americans before...including a teenage kid.

Where's the Outrage?



Detroit Free Press columnist Leonard Pitts asks a pertinent question about the unitary executive killing the above kid's father, a U.S. citizen accused of being a terrorist:

Where's the Outrage?

"... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

-- from the 14th Amendment

Spin it any way you want. Justify it, rationalize it, chalk it up to the exigencies of war. And at the end, the fact remains:

A U.S. citizen is dead and the U.S. government killed him. Without trial. Without due process. Without hesitation. And many of those who loudly deplored George W. Bush for smaller excesses seem content to allow Barack Obama this larger one.

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So where is the outrage? Had Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without judicial oversight, the resulting cries of protest would have been audible on the moon. Indeed, one of the protesters would likely have been Obama himself; he came into office on a promise to rein in the excesses of the Bush years, most infamously the torture of so-called enemy combatants.

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http://www.freep.com/article/20120316/OPINION03/203160327/Where-is-the-outrage-over-the-killing-of-a-U-S-citizen-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

BTW: The teen-age kid above also got whacked without a trial:

Third U.S. Citizen Killed by Obama s Yemen Drone Strikes was a 16-Year-Old Boy

Now I don't like terrorists, even when they are citizens of the United States. I do object to them being killed on the order of the President, without trial, due process or anything else that once made the United States a democracy.