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Actually doing this, and saying absolutely nothing about it, makes some sense.
Announcing it as official policy seems facially impolitic to this wino and strikes an ominous tone, but there it is.
Actually doing this, and saying absolutely nothing about it, makes some sense.
Announcing it as official policy seems facially impolitic to this wino and strikes an ominous tone, but there it is.
The US government announces to the whole world it will target US citizens for assassination.
What makes you think they haven't already carried through with that? It's hard to deny ties with terrorist groups if you're already dead.
I just think announcing it is a bad idea.
I assume it goes on everyday.
Maybe we should just let this thread die down... somebody might decide we're a danger to other Americans...
Not killing Americans necessarily, just killing certain bad guys whenever they have a clear chance.
No doubt someone already has. em.
I agree with you on this. Both parts.
I also agree with NoNo that it has already probably happenend, since it has been a policy since basically 9/11. I have no idea why Blair said somehting about it now, and I can't figure out why the congressman questioning Blair has changed his mind about whether or not it is a good idea.
Now, there IS the questionable positon of mirandizing a guy who just tried to blow up a plane (I know that the Bush administration did the same with the shoe bomber guy) and NOT mirandizing an American citizen, but then that is a topic for another thread (and I think we all had our say about it some time back). If the combination of these two things is not dissonant policy, I don't know what one would look like.
Yeah, sure. I just read the last three pages of the thread on Republicans thinking that Obama was a socialist and I was actually laughing out loud in my living room. (You know, the whole Nazi-French thing?) The only thing that would happen if someone read these things is that they might die laughing.
I know you were just being facetious, Nono.
They used to pretend to disdain the "rough edges" of democracy and they pretended to care about the little guy. Now they don't even pretend to care.
They just say, we'll waste your ass.
I have nothing to worry about at the moment: I'm not an American citizen (yet)
One more thing: Is this the kind instance where invoking Nazis and Hitler is NOT Godwin's law?
I thought this was old news and an unimportant event.
Well, at least you'd probably get mirandized!I have nothing to worry about at the moment: I'm not an American citizen (yet)
I hope you become a citizen. We need thinkers.
That's not exactly what you said in your own thread about this a few minutes ago. Change your tune much?I thought this was old news and an unimportant event.
Who said it's unimportant?I thought this was old news and an unimportant event.
Btw, I liked Pete Hoekstra questions. He raises a very important question.
I posted it because I found Blair's testimony, which happened yesterday, rather extraordinary.
I thought that the question about what criteria were used was fair enough, although I thought it was predictable that it wouldn't be answered.
I thought that bringing up the topic at all was questionable, and I was surprised that a senator who evidenced no problem before this developed a problem at this somewhat late date in the policy's history.
I believe this was rubber stamped by Congress in the fine print of the Military Commisions Act back in 2006. It probably has been in place through an Executive Order much before than that though.
Sure. That sounds believable.
, it's even likely.
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