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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Rights going down the drain.  And their justification for doing it is pretty much just the honor system. "Oh don't worry, we killed these guys. Trust us, they were bad guys. Of course we can't show you any of the evidence against them, because that would be a national security breach, but trust us, they were bad guys."
The United States government definitively says it can kill its citizens if it's too inconvenient to arrest them and try them. That's the bottom line. If you think your government, no matter who is in the White House, should have that power, then you really don't care about your rights. |
I would have to concur.
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The way I understood POTUS is US citizen on foreign soil actively engaging in activity to harm US citizens is fair game for a drone. The citizenship renounced. Nowhere did he say it is ok to use a drone against a US citizen here in the states. This is how I understood the 60 second portion of the speech I heard.
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I can understand an active shooting situation. I can also understand if said scumbag citizen happen to be in the wrong place at the right time. As in, "oops, I guess he shouldn't have been there then huh?" However if said person is ever captured, they still have due process.