If you deserve to be summarily executed for merely advocating acts of terror

[whatchamacallit]

What do we as a nation deserve?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/afghanistan-iraq-wars-killed-132000-civilians-report-says/
http://www.unknownnews.org/casualties.html
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.aclu.org/human-cost-civilian-casualties-iraq-afghanistan

[elleng]

1. You don't; 'Advocating' is usually NOT the same as actively planning.

Details and nuance are important to our First Amendment jurisprudence.

[MNBrewer]

2. What jurisprudence? There was no judicial involvement in this assassination.

[elleng]

9. Your premise was

'if you deserve to be summarily executed for merely advocating acts,' I responded there is jurisprudence as to first amendment, advocacy, which contains nuance.

I would further argue that there is NO MERELY re: advocating ACTS OF TERROR.

[whatchamacallit]

5. American lives - so precious...

As long as a single terrorist plots against us, we are justified in mass murder. What a twisted world.

[YellowCosmicSun]

3. He was the head of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Much more than just an advocate.

Quit coddling the terrorist.

He's not some pit bull who never had a choice.
He chose to declare war on this Country.
He knew the consequences even if you don't.

[whatchamacallit]

7. If a terrorist is one who commits acts of terror

we got some explaining to do.

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[YellowCosmicSun]

18. sorry, I thought you were implying that the US is a terrorist nation.

[elleng]

14. A terrorist is one who

uses violence and threats thereof for 'political' reasons.

[whatchamacallit]

15. Thank you, that describes us well. n/t

[JDPriestly]

28. What about Republicans who talk about the "Second Amendment Solution"?

Are they also terrorists?

[JDPriestly]

27. Do you have any proof that he was the head of the Al Qaeda in Yemen?

Why didn't we simply extradite him legally and then go in and get him?

The Constitution does not give the president the authority to order summary executions in foreign countries. That is the problem. Should we amend the Constitution to permit this?

[treestar]

4. No you don't

Though it's sure going to bring attention to bear upon you.

[whatchamacallit]

6. I notice the focus is kept to him

Got anything to say about us?

[treestar]

10. Since when do we advocate acts of terror?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Not only advocate but carry them out.

See the CIA involvement in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Congo, Mozambique, Angola, Chile, Nicaragua, Honduras, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, El Salvador...to name a few places. And, that's not even mentioning the Pentagon.

[treestar]

34. OP was clearly aimed at individuals

Are you saying we can't go after specific terrorists because the nation as such has been wrong? That we because we are Americans deserve to be plotted against? That's as dumb as saying Americans are so wonderful, only they deserve due process, just the opposite.

[whatchamacallit]

13. If the "collateral" slaughter of innocents

in pursuit of imagined safety, isn't terror, what is? Have another look at that white hat, cowboy.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I LOVE your sense of irony.

[Puregonzo1188]

17. The United States is also the only nation ever found guilty of aggression by the IJC.

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[saras]

20. For actively planning and executing, a few hundred missiles, at least.

All of these people...

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

...should have been incinerated. Collateral damage be damned - take their whole towns out in case they have sympathizers or hidden arms caches.

Go after anyone who supports them - their employers, their families, their communities - bomb 'em all back to the Stone age. If a state appears to produce too many of them, level the whole fucking state and replace its government with America-trained torturers. Sic 'em on anyone who owns a gun, because they might let the enemy have them or otherwise support them, and if they're not supporting the enemy, why do they need guns anyways? Criminals? I mean, they're terrorists, right? They have no rights.

And then we move on to the bankers and corporations that fund the terrorists. And the Tea Party, and their hometowns.

Okay, I've changed my mind. I now support summary execution of terrorists, as well as wholesale destruction of their habitat.

[Sheepshank]

21. There was way more than advocacy going on

and to ignore that is to provide a false premis to begin with.

Oranizers and the active support for terrorism is a whole 'nother ball game.

[JDPriestly]

29. If you are talking about conspiracy to commit terrorism,

some of these right-wing loud-mouths could find themselves fitting that description one of these days. I do not expect a president to simply liquidate them a la Stalin. I hope a president will not simply liquidate them a la Stalin.

What about people who kill abortion doctors? Should we send in drones?

[gulliver]

22. It's not about deserving anything.

He was a threat to innocents, an avowed combatant, and under the protection of his tribe. He was a warned enemy and unreachable to arrest. The SWAT team took him out. No problem.

[whatchamacallit]

24. Driven by our fear of what might happen

we are far more than a threat to innocents. We slaughter them indiscriminately. Americans, it's all about us....

[AngkorWot]

23. That's like saying Hitler merely advocated gassing the jews.

[whatchamacallit]

26. I've seen some lame analogies in here

but this takes the cake. Congratulations.

[geek tragedy]

25. Al Awlaki was an actual terrorist who participated

in plots to kill Americans.

[TheKentuckian]

30. Sounds like someone who should have been at minimum, under indictment.

Such a threat would have charges against them, without a doubt.

[whatchamacallit]

31. My post isn't about him

or what he may or may not have been. It's about us. It's about the death and destruction we rain-down on others to avoid potential terror.

[provis99]

33. the evidence presented is that he did not.

[geek tragedy]

36. There is more than enough in the public domain to convince

any rational person this guy was in the terrorism biz.

[provis99]

32. so when do we start assassinating members of the Michigan Militia?

[Warren DeMontague]

35. "we as a nation"

How many of you are there?