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More “humanitarian” killing coming? UPDATE (11/09/2011): Fortunately, apparently not, at least for now. I say “fortunately” with some ambivalence. Like Libya I’d be happy to see the Syrian leadership go, but the current use of war like water isn’t a healthy state of affairs. Adam Smith via Krugman regarding banking regulation: “Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; [...] From the comment section of Matt Yglesias’ blog: “God save us from Constitution fetishists on the right and left…” This in reference to, the 5th amendment clause that says: No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law Apparently being against the government having the option to kill its [...] I will note in the post below I used the term “convert”, which is a loaded word especially when talking about Islam. To be clear, while I have no great love of any religion, I steadfastly believe in the right of all to worship any faith or for that matter, not worship at all (ie: [...] In the last couple of posts I’ve indicated at best an ambivalence, and what could most probably be expressed as a complete lack of empathy toward Anwar Al-Awlaki and Ibrahim Hassan deaths. There’s both some truth to this implication, but I also admit some posturing to bring home the point that, should these men be [...] Here’s another reason the 5th Amendment crushing assassination of an American matters: Underwear-bomb maker believed dead in Yemen strike CAIRO – A Saudi militant believed killed in the U.S. drone strike in Yemen constructed the bombs for the al-Qaida branch’s most notorious attempted attacks — including the underwear-borne explosives intended to a down a U.S. [...] Any country that could have this as a viable title of a “news” report: has lost its bearings. This is particularly true when one considers we probably gave Rezwan Ferdaus the idea. All terror, all the time. You gotta even fear the toys (I’m kind of surprised these haven’t been implicated yet…). [...] Anwar Al-Awlaki may be a bad dude. He could have been planning to murder thousands of Americans and deserves to die. However, it isn’t a complicated question: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising [...] |
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