🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:06:49 -0000, Monte <GeeDubya@aol.com> wrote:


>
>You and several others missed the significant difference.  It 
>has always been okay for Americans too die as a result of 
>their being in combat on the enemies side.  Never has their 
>ever been a question, constitutional or oterwise about the 
>propiety of killing an american who is in the enemies 
>military.
>
>Further if an American is working for the enemy AND is caught 
>in our territory, be it in our own country or foreign areas 
>which we are controlling, that American is held by and tried 
>by the military as a spy and if found guilty can be executed.  
>Note the due process involved here.  Even a foreign spy caught 
>in the act is given due process.
>
>What is changed is that by the simple expediency of the CIA or 
>Whitehouse declaring an individual American a member or 
>associate of a terrorist group they can then be ordered killed 
>by the CIA.  Ask yourself this question, where in any document 
>or court ruling in the history of this nation has it ever even 
>been hinted at that a president, let alone a bureaucrat can 
>decide to have an American citizen killed?

  The main focus, was that "Just because you're an American, doesn't
mean you will not be eliminated" It's not an outright edict to kill an
American in Afganistan.
>
>You assume presumption of guilt and worse you assume it on the 
>word of a polititian.  Incredible, absolutely incredible the 
>limits osme people will go to in order to avoid thinking.

  No, I "Assume" their guilt if they are in the company of terrorists.
Unless they are journalitsts.

  And I am allowed my thoughts. Just as you are. I don't say "You're
wrong" just because you hold a different view. And mine is not wrong,
just because you feel it is.