Link provided by George Jefferson with the following comment:
"My favorite paragraph
One might say: “But Jacob, the government isn’t assassinating multitudes
of Americans or rounding them up, putting them into concentration
camps, and torturing them. They’re only doing such things to a very
small number of Americans. And they’re doing it as part of
national-security operations to keep us safe. The rest of us are still
living in a free society because while they wield the power to
assassinate us, they’re not exercising the power except on a tiny few.”
Sound familiar?"
Who was the last American citizen to be assassinated? Whom do you seek to protect? Al Qaeda? ISIS? The American Taliban made it home okay last I heard.
ReplyDeleteWTF are you guys talking about?
That would include any and all citizens regardless of location who have been killed by any agency or branch of a fed state or local gov without first being given their constitutionally guaranteed right to due process
DeleteAny prisoner that has been put to death has technically been assassinated by the government. And then Obama did mention that he accidentally killed an American while bombing some Afghanis back in January. I guess as a Nobel Peace Prize winner he gets a pass for assassinating people though right?
DeleteI don't agree with the limiting factor of "American citizen." Is it ok to kill non-citizens.
DeleteI wonder how many American soldiers and innocent people would die if we sent troops on the ground to get these terrorists? The tools of war are supposed to kill the enemy while saving American soldier's lives. To think there would be no collateral deaths in a war, is rank stupidity.
ReplyDeleteEvery American no matter what the accusation against them is.. has a RIGHT to due process in every circumstance ...To think otherwise is rank anti Americanism
DeleteNon-citizens don't have that right, George?
DeleteUsually we refer to an unnecessary police killing as an execution, if we are even that honest. Same thing for violence perpetrated by the Border Patrol, ATF, DEA, what have you. Similar to the way that we refer to the imposition of the death penalty. But thank you for clarifying the thinking.
ReplyDeleteTargeted drone strikes are a type of assassination. The collateral deaths associated with this are similar to the deaths associated with any type of warfare, be it bullets, missiles or bombs. Substituting one word for another means little. I believe there might have been some instances of the assassination of U.S. citizens abroad affiliated with terrorist organizations. I don't recall perfectly.
This I know. Osama Bin Laden, (Sin-laden), was most definitely assassinated.