The Southern Poverty Law Center is a progressive supremacist group. The fact that their reports and other rantings are given any weight is disturbing.

Then I guess we need to make sure the SPLC’s people lose the next several hundred elections.

Who’s with me?

O-bomb-a orders an execution of an American citizen without a trial, and that’s something to cheer? I disagree. Let’s say O wanted to do something to appeal to his base, and ordered the execution of a dissident blogger accused of inciting hostility against Aborigines?

Charles Johnson and the SPLC would applaud such a preemptive act, and how could we condemn it since we’ve supported it for accused terrorists? Precedents that expand executive power have a loooong shelf life, so don’t be surprised at how they’re used in the future.

What part of al-Awlaki joined a foreign enemy waging war against America don’t you people understand? He was already responsible for thriteen deaths at Fort Hood, the attempted underwear bombing, and was continuously engaged in more plots of attacks against American citizens on American soil, so yes it was right to take him out.

Oh wait a minute, that’s right, I see your point now-it was Obama who did it, not a Republican, so maybe we’d better think about this some more.

Grow up, dude.

It was not a matter of an “accusation” of guilt. There was no question of his guilt. He himself joined the other side and presented himself as the operational head and mastermind of Al-Queda in Yemen. There is absolutely no question about that, none whatsoever.

And again, this man was at war with us, on an on-going basis. That’s what happens in war. People kill other people, or try to, and people do get killed. Why does the technically correct fact that he was an American citizen make any difference?

Maybe if he had retired from his position and gone into private life, and was no longer active in planning and ordering terrorist attacks on our country, you might have somewhat of a point. Maybe then the best thing to do would be to arrest him, if possible, and put him on trial.

But he was not retired, he was active up until the time he was thankfully killed, along with the publisher of Inspired Magazine.

Again, wrap your head around the reality that We. Are. At. War. When you’re at war, you kill the enemy. What is it the constitution says we must be protected from?

“All enemies, foreign and domestic”. Well, he was both, so get over it.

robertstacymccain,

I know Smitty didn’t, and that was my point. I know what it’s like to be taken out of context and condemned as a heretic from the One True Church of Tolerance. That’s what could be done with Smitty’s post, but a full reading in context would clear him. In other words: A formal and complete consideration of the facts. In criminal cases, we call that a trial.

Problem is, both the civil rights hustlers and laptop bombardiers have itchy trigger fingers, and, like our friend from the Pagan Temple, claim the power to see into men’s souls and determine how to punish them accordingly. They don’t need no stinkin’ trials. And that’s where they’re wrong.

You use the word “we” a lot. For the record, I’m unaware of any groups or organizations with which you and I are both affiliated.

You’re correct that the US government couldn’t “just send a few guys out there with a warrant and take him in.”

It was a military kind of thing.

But it wasn’t an emergency/exigency/heat of the moment kind of military thing, like “oh, shit, those are Japanese pilots strafing Pearl Harbor. What the fuck? Man the AA guns!”

It was a long-term, definable kind of military thing, far more along the lines of:

JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial Government of Japan and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same.
Whereas the Imperial Government of Japan has committed unprovoked acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America: Therefore be itResolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial Government of Japan which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.

If you non-anarchists can’t be bothered to follow your own fucking rules, quit expecting everyone else to.

Not me. If anything that would be you or anybody who wants to give any of these traitors any quarter, and hiding behind the constitution to do so doesn’t make it any more acceptable to me. Again, he is a domestic enemy, aligned with a foreign enemy in an attempt to kill American citizens. Just by that definition, his death was justified by the constitution. The minute he went to war against us, he forfeited any and all constitutional protections he otherwise would have enjoyed as an ordinary citizen, or even a common criminal.

Speaking of defending a viewpoint via unfair rhetoric, ThePaganTemple never made any blanket statements about not needing any stinkin’ trials.

He/she was strictly arguing that, under the laws of war, enemy combatants do not have a right to a trial. 

Thus, his/her proposition-A is that Al-Alwaki was an enemy combatant; his/her proposition-B is that enemy combatants do not have the same rights as citizens of the U.S.  Setting aside the strawman, do you disagree with prop A, prop B, or both?  

Thank you. That’s my view in a nutshell. I don’t see what’s so hard to figure out about that. When you have an enemy who is trying to kill you, you kill them first if its at all possible. What’s worse, if some of these guys got their way and we did bring them here for a trial it would turn into the biggest circus in history. Can you imagine if we’d captured Bin Laden and brought him here? Good Lord. These very people bitching about killing them would be the very ones going out of their way to make it next to impossible to prosecute them. It really doesn’t pay to take these people too seriously, especially when they wax all poetic about their supposed concern for the constitution. Give these guys enough rope you might as well put the document in a binder with a clown on the cover and rename it “Ye Olde Philadelphia Joke Book”