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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
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.
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^this
I was supportive of drone strikes when it was for recon purposes, or for taking out some truck full of terrorists... but when you consider that some or all of the occupants of the truck are born in Parma Ohio, raised in Newark, New Jersey and in their adult years became militant against the US government... well it makes no difference, protected by the constitution =
protected by the constitution any way you slice it.
It is unprecedented - our own government is using remote drone warfare to murder US Citizens who have been deemed unworthy of due process of law.
If it can be proven that any president, past or present authorized drone strikes against US Citizens... they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.