Reply #120: Almost all of the Civil Liberties organizations and Constitutional

[sabrina 1]

lawyers who opposed this policy, still oppose it and disagree with your interpretation, that it is legal.

What did Awlaqi do? Where are the charges? We know he ranted and raved against America on the internet, but when asked for the exact reasons for his execution, the WH Press Sec. could not answer.

Sorry, I oppose the death penalty without charges. I oppose the DP period, but especially the placement of such power in the hands of a single individual, this was something that was always opposed, and should be, and if Obama said he was going to claim the powers of a king, that Bush had claimed before the election, I did not hear him. Our democracy is set up to have a balance of power, no one person should ever have such awesome power in this country.

Clearly none of Bush's Constitution destroying laws are going to be rescinded as we had hoped under this administration, but I hope they will be as quickly as possible. A man has been killed, the public has no proof, nothing to show what he actually did, he was a US citizen, he was not on a battlefield, he was not an imminent threat, yet people are willing to accept this without question. Maybe that is even more scary than the fact that it can happen at all, the unquestioning support for it.

As for Cheney, had Obama moved to rescind Bush policies, started investigations into war crimes at the beginning, made it clear he was going to restore Habeas Corpus, and if necessary issue an executive order to shut down Guantanamo Bay, Cheney would not be able to praise on the one hand for killing a US citizen and attack him on the other. He would be too busy trying to use his deceptive skills to stay out of jail. This is what many people thought they were supporting. Clearly we were wrong.