Do you support the killing of 16 year old Denver born American who spoke out against the US?

[Bonobo]

Poll question: Do you support the killing of 16 year old Denver born American who spoke out against the US?

I will not add anything to it other than to say, for the sake of argument, that we KNOW he spoke out in favor of bad things happening to the USA AND that he was an American.

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[canetoad]

6. It gives me shivers of delight

When a DUer diagnoses other DUers as psycopaths. Here stands amongst us a doctor, a psychiatrist of such intuition and insight that, discarding all modern diagnostic principles, using only an internet poll as evidence, can make the call that another human is a psycopath.

Congrats whatcha.......on not letting medicine, psychiatry, knowledge, wisdom or common sense get in the way of your calling out DU members as being deranged.

[MrDiaz]

13. lol come on

We call RWers psycopaths, and crazy all the time, lol nobody ever asks them if they are a doctor.

[canetoad]

14. And it's just as idiotic and unproductive

Some of us are not herd animals and believe in retaining one's dignity.

[Exilednight]

7. Actually, I think it's just freepers who have nothing better to do with their time. n/t

[joshcryer]

2. Targeted killing is immoral.

[Cid_B]

3. As opposed to what...? Random?

:eyes:

[joshcryer]

11. "Targeted killing" has a specific meaning here, in extrajudicial international law.

It's a real thing that legalizes the killing of people extra-judicially.

[canetoad]

17. Gadaffi was killed

by individual/s he oppressed. Unless you have found a bypass for human nature, lay off. What's done is done.

[joshcryer]

18. Hey, I have no real issue with what happend with Gaddafi, it was expected, suboptimal...

...but expected.

This thread is a poll about al-akwai's 16 year old son being killed by drones.

[Rene Descartes]

5. Actually, from a moral standpoint, it is permissible to kill in self-defense.

The legality of it is another matter altogether.

[joshcryer]

12. If it were self-defense I would not consider it immoral.

If it were in a battle I would not consider it immoral.

But it's from a distance, with technology, without any effort to capture the individual alive.

[Rene Descartes]

20. Clearly, al-Awlaki was involved in previous attacks and he was also instrumental

in current efforts to attack the US. He encouraged Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, as well as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, and he was a charismatic proselytizer for American jihad. Thus, I have no issues with respect to the morality of killing him.

For me, the most troubling aspect of employing lethal force against an American outside of combat zones is the taking an American individual's life without any of the protections of due process and civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

It is not clear to me how that can be legally justified.

[Tx4obama]

4. He was terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki's son, the OP should have included that.

The son was hangin' with terrorists when the drones targeted the terrorists last Friday, October 14th, in Yemen.
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October 15, 2011 | Associated Press

Al-Awlaki's Son Among Al Qaeda Militants Killed in Yemen Air Strike

SANAA, Yemen – American drone strikes in southern Yemen have killed nine Al Qaeda-linked militants, including the media chief for the group's Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month, government officials and tribal elders said Saturday.

[Obamanaut]

8. You buys your tickets, you takes your rides. nt

[baldguy]

9. Are you opposed to killing terrorists who take up arms against America?

Does it really matter where he was born?

[canetoad]

10. Admitedly, I posted skewed polls before now

But they're ususally to make a point in a slanted way.

You can't tell me you expected to get an honest representation of the best liberal thought by posting this badly thought out mini-questionaire?

Why not give us further details of the actual case so we can give you an informed answer?

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. I think we should always track down and kill ALL little American boys who criticize America

:argh:

Actually I am completely against this entire war on terror business. I am completely against the whole way America runs completely rough shod over the entire Middle East and much of the world. But having said that I totally expect America or any other state power that has the means to do so to strike mercilessly at those who seek to strike at them. Justified or unjustified, right or wrong - this is what state powers will do to those who they consider a serious threat when they have the means to do so. One can quite sensibly argue that American imperium is largely to blame for a lot of what creates "terrorism" in the first place - and I completely agree. But in the real world - state powers are violent against those who they consider dangerous threats.

[malaise]

16. No

and I rec'd your poll

[polly7]

19. I think it's disgusting and a really chicken-*t way to kill.

So many innocents have already died by these drones. Sitting safely somewhere across the world, someone is exterminating human beings without knowing who is nearby and may be killed, if the 'target' is even a real threat to anyone. It makes my skin crawl.