RE: ” ...whats next…inside the U.S?” - actually they do that to the homeless and mentally ill in the
streets on a daily basis, but that’s another story

RE: “...Greenwald on Democracy Now yesterday. Maybe this will silence Democracy Now critics…”

from the DN story: ”“One of the bizarre aspects of it is that media and government reports try
to sell al-Awlaki as some grand terrorist mastermind … describing him as the new bin Laden. The
United States government needs a terrorist mastermind to replace Osama bin Laden to justify this
type of endless war … For a while, al-Awlaki was going to serve that function,” Greenwald says. “If
you are somebody that believes the President of the United States has the power to order your
fellow citizens murdered, assassinated, killed without a shred of due process … then you are really
declaring yourself to be as pure of an authoritarian as it gets.”

OK, fair enough, Greenwald sees the regime’s need for a ‘matermind’ boogyman then takes on the POTUS
for the illegality of summary execution of an American citizen, but would he dare report it like
this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbIk-7T6KvI - well, not likely on Democracy Now.

@prisnersdilema The Fifth Amendment says “person”, not
“citizen”.

“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it
than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.”
(Eugene V. Debs)

They killed an American citizen without trial outside the U.S., whats next…inside the U.S?

All men and women are born with the inalienable rights to life.  No legal entity in this
country has the legal right to take the life a citizen without due process, including a
lawful arrest and a trial.  This act by our government, as Ron Paul so aptly stated, is an
asassination. It is cold blooded murder. Which makes president Obama, a murderer.

When the cold war ended and the USSR, went under. We had a peace dividend. The
military industrial complex must have wet their pants, facing a grim future of budget cuts.

But soon the more creative of them realized they needed to create a phony opponent to
bring back, those big budgets again. And so 911 was born…along with Al-CIADA.

It’s just a short put from the unlawful murder of an American citizen, to a Stalin syle
cleansing of the entire nation.  The T.V. Is already cranking out the necessary
vilifications to make it seem justified.

Main point to be remembered here:
     
      “Al-Awlaki, 40, was a U.S.-BORN Muslim cleric ...” 
 
So now it’s okay to kill without trial a suspect who is an American citizen, thus denying him/her the Constitutional protections to which he/she is legally entitled regardless of innocence or guilt?

The Red Queen Rules!  Off with their heads!  Surely, we are entering the Land of Barbaric Idiocy, otherwise known as Hell on Earth.

If we work to re-elect Obama we are giving him and the Democrats Carte-Blanche to do whatever they want.. we’re officially their bitches.. no further complaining or protesting will mean anything.

The Republican platform and candidates are simply odious!

What to do!? What to do?!

I’m relying on some wisdom I read some while back.. ‘don’t vote on fear’.. whether it’s fear of terrorism, fear of ugly Republicans or even fear of our economy and government becoming worse.. I will go to the polls and vote for individual candidates that have given me some hope. Obama and the democratic leadership will not get my vote. Republicans are Republicans.. prominent Democrats are two-faced liars.

If A Republican is elected to the White House it won’t be with my help.. same thing for if Obama keeps the place.

Adios!

There was an in depth interview with Greenwald on Democracy Now yesterday. Maybe this will silence Democracy Now critics from the Left, but I doubt it.

O.K., Obama has gone farther than Bush with his national security objectives. I would think that the invasion of Iraq was a greater war crime and the authorization of torture was a gross example of crimes against humanity, but that’s just me. I prefer Democrats to Republicans so I’m biased and tolerant of Obama’s war crimes according to Greenwald, but I am not.  Al-Alwaki was an English speaking American citizen who supported Al-Queda violence and thus a candidate for summary execution without due process according to Obama and his advisors, but not according to me. Obama is a war criminal according to me and I have written so many times. Al-Alwaki was not an Al-Queda leader, or even an Al-Queda operative according to Greenwald. Al-Alwaki was a Muslim cleric and a U.S. citizen who broadcast his support for violence against the United States in English and thus he was designated a threat to the United States and a legitimate target for execution without due process according to Obama and his advisors. The ACLU filed suit against Obama for authorizing execution without due process and I join the ACLU in condemning Obama for that authorization and I wished success for that legal action by the ACLU. Very, very, few citizens of this nation care at all about Obama’s authorization of killing U.S. citizens deemed to be supporters of terrorism without due process. Most approve of that authorization, and according to polls only 2% of Americans consider these wars to be the most important issue facing this country, but I consider these wars to be far and away the most important issue facing this country, I condemn these wars in the strongest terms possible and I also condemn Obama in the strongest terms possible concerning his war policies.

So, what now, do we withdraw support for Obama and allow even greater war criminals to take control of our Government, greater war criminals who will negate every vestige of left-wing political power, pledge their blind obedience to corporate power, and legislate the corporate agenda? That is a political strategy that will not bring these wars and atrocities to an end and that will accomplish no good end. We are caught between a hard place and a harder place, the best solution to our current dilemma is massive non-violent protest, but I’m not holding my breath; even many of the most vocal critics of Obama from the left are opposed to, or unwilling to resort to, such measures.

So… what now? Supporting a losing ineffectual third party will accomplish nothing and serve no good end. A principled and futile vote will serve no good end. So… what now? Only pressing for reform along with concrete political action has the potential for achieving any semblance of a good end, but such requires too much commitment and is rejected by those who are content with simple ineffectual and vehement counter productive criticisms. So…what now: civil disobedience, violence, riot, insurrection, bombing, terrorism? What then? I’ll tell you what then, no good end. There will be no good end short term, only long term reform has the potential for bringing an end and that end will not be perceived as good from any perspective. Our country has been engaged in a tragic murderous folly for at least sixty years now, and there can be no good end, only an end.

“The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on, and he, walked on down the hall…”

Having seen this item as a news leader and with follow up commentary on every news program and outlet yesterday, local, national and cable…. I clicked on this solely for the comments..

The TD ‘crowd’ did not disappoint!

Adios.

Extra-judicial killing by the government is nothing new to
America. It’s happened throughout our history. On top of that,
innocent civilians are being killed everyday by our drone strikes
in Pakistan and Afghanistan. So why be surprised they targeted
an American citizen?

U.S. DRONE ATTACK KILLS AL-QAIDA LEADER

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An unsupported allegation. As are all the other
trumped up charges; with no burden of proof
necessary.
So, America now kills it’s citizens without due
process.
Well at least this can be classified under budget
cuts; all judges, lawyers, and prison personal will
be without jobs. Should save billions, no?
What’s that creepy feeling going up the back of my
neck?
Orwell knows; he wrote the story; prescient he was…

Hey Government
Remember those things I said about you before?
I was just joking, Now please recall that plane that keeps circling my house.

Bravo America! On account of what you did to Al-Awlaki and what you did before that to Osama bin Ladin, or a presumed Osama, you earn the honorific title of “High-Tech Assassin!”

I don’t know what happened to your soul America; and I am wondering whether you ever had one!!!

Here we go again with what “Great Sad America” can do best! Using its latest costly technology to assassinate individuals half way around the world!

Though for the petty-minded politicians, military-industrial complex personals and merchants of death this might be an occasion to celebrate some cheap, bloody affair as an accomplishment, for people with common sense and decency, this is an occasion to reflect on how low the American system has sunk in the scale of decency, morality, and humanity.

Sad, sad, sad; not for the al-Awlaki and his admirers, but for America!

Didn’t this guy star in ‘Jewel of the Nile’?

So much for the system of checks and balances envisioned by the founders. 

Now some faceless apointee with a budget to protect can kill either you or me under the guise of national security and without due process.

kerryrose - I don’t disagree with you at all. In fact, my point was merely to point out how absurd it is that the last (corrupt) administration landed us in 2 f***ing wars that cost trillions under the pretense that we were trying to target the likes of the terrorists. The residual “results” of these wars is to have mastered all sorts of policing and security technologies that are now being used HERE against you an me…...I guess I can’t say this in a better way, but if we’re going to go kill our (presumed) enemies, it’s better that we do so without squandering trillions of dollars.

I’m afraid Americans in general want things this way. If they didn’t they would not have been duped so easily into GWB’s deciets.

Obamatrons stand up and clap for the Emperor’s latest execution.

mr freeze

let’s talk about the eroson of civil liberties.  A targeted assassination of a US citizen?  Man, with Bush we were worried about eavesdropping.

What does it bode for the rest of us if civil liberties erode away?  More rationalization… like I hear from your post?  (I didn’t care until they came for me)

It seems every person the US kills (murders, more like) that has an Arabic name is some kind of AQ leader or “insurgent”, but to get at the real AQ “leaders”, the CIA’s top dogs are the ones who ought to be targeted.  Since being an American citizen is no longer any assurance that Due Process of Law will be adhered to, the US administration has no more excuses.  If stopping terrorism is the goal, Langley, Virginia is a “target rich environment”.

Actually, I look at this assassination as more proof that the Military Welfare Complex can be reduced by 50%-75%.

The reason? Because in the last several years most of the Al-Qaida leadership has been neutralized through intelligence & small elite teams. Let’s use some business management thinking on this: why not spend only on what works and eliminate the rest?

If you want to understand this instance of the US assassinating one of it’s citizens without due process, it won’t be from the Washington Post article quoted here.

Shame, shame, Truthdig.  Go to Salon.com and read Glen Greenwald’s lucid analysis.