http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...assassinations
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In late January, I wrote about the Obama administration's "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're involved in Terrorism. At the time, The Washington Post's Dana Priest had noted deep in a long article that Obama had continued Bush's policy (which Bush never actually implemented) of having the Joint Chiefs of Staff compile "hit lists" of Americans, and Priest suggested that the American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was on that list. The following week, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, acknowledged in Congressional testimony that the administration reserves the "right" to carry out such assassinations.
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Solves the whole indefinite detaining of enemy combatants issue don't it? Just kill 'em - no due process or anything. Hell, hit 'em in their home while they're sleeping even, "far away from any battlefield". Wonder who will be the first to get hit by the peace assassins.
Let's make sure to teach our children the morals of modern society...if you want to kill people you deem evil, you have to get into politics and win the presidency.