@Adoucette
You have a legitimate right to kill terrorists when you show evidence that the person is a terrorist and even then there are legal boundaries or as the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights point out:
Otherwise such a killing would amount to an extrajudicial execution and would violate the Fifth Amendment to the constitution, which guarantees citizens the right to due process.
"International human rights law dictates that you can't unilaterally target someone and kill someone without that person posing an imminent threat to security interests," said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
"The information that we have, from the government's own press releases, is that he is somehow loosely connected, but there is no specific evidence of things he actualized that would meet the legal threshold for making this killing justifiable as a matter of human rights law."
Read more:
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/new...xecutive-power-debate30-ON.html#ixzz1ZkFI7KtX
The white house has refused to discuss its legal findings that made this hit necessary. Why not? He's dead isn't he? If there was a clear cut legal backing to this action then there would't be so many lawyers scratching their heads over this. The government operated with impunity and then has decided that they don't have to answer for their actions. Your take along with many others is that 'he was a terrorist' as if being a criminal somehow rubs clean the issue of whether the government has a right to execute a citizen without charges and without oversight.
Oh and by the way Goldman Sachs you ignoramous:
BERLIN: The German government may consider taking legal action in a case in which Goldman Sachs & Co. is accused of defrauding investors, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The U.S. government alleges Goldman Sachs sold mortgage investments without telling buyers they were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them failing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/17/germany-vs-goldman-sachs-_n_541707.html
FRAUD!
Accusations that Goldman defrauded customers who bought investments tied to risky subprime mortgages have only just begun to reverberate through the financial world.
The civil lawsuit that the Securities and Exchange Commission filed against Goldman on Friday seemed to confirm many Americans’ worst suspicions about Wall Street: that the game is rigged, the odds stacked in the banks’ favor. It is the first big case — but probably not the last, legal experts said — to delve into a Wall Street firm’s role in the mortgage fiasco.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/17/goldman-sachs-fraud-charg_n_541686.html
MORE FRAUD!
You lie for these fucking people and I am supposed to accept your opinion on the legality and ethics not to mention the constitutionality of killing an american citizen by executive order without any bloody oversight or explanation.
You, my dear are simply our local woo woo PSYCHOPATH!!! If there is a shred of ethical boundaries and moral conscience within your shriveled soul you have yet to show it.
Ruby Ridge:
before the negotiators arrived at the cabin, an FBI HRT sniper, Lon Horiuchi, shot and wounded Randy Weaver in the back with the bullet exiting his right armpit, while he was lifting the latch on the shed to visit the body of his dead son. (The sniper testified at the later trial that he had put his crosshairs on Weaver's spine, but Weaver moved at the last second.) Then, as Weaver, his 16-year-old daughter Sara, and Harris ran back toward the house, Horiuchi fired a second bullet, which passed through Vicki Weaver's head, killing her, and wounded Harris in the chest. Vicki Weaver was standing behind the door through which Harris was entering the house, holding their 10-month-old baby Elishebath in her arms. The Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility Ruby Ridge Task Force Report (June 10, 1994) stated in section I. Executive Summary subhead B. Significant Findings that THE SECOND SHOT DID NOT SATISFY CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS FOR LEGAL USE OF DEADLY FORCE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
To put it bluntly killing Vicki, who had no charges waged against her, was a criminal act. The entire engagement on Ruby Ridge was a criminal act perpetrated by the FBI so if it was an 'accident' as you call it, it doesn't really matter because Horiuchi's presence was unlawful to begin with.
"It has been alleged that during this initial period negotiations were ignored as a strategy and that only tactical responses were considered. Indeed, the FBI has been criticized for its failure to contact the occupants of the Weaver residence until Saturday evening, after the sniper shots had been fired and Vicki Weaver had been killed. We have been told by observers on the scene that law enforcement personnel made statements that the matter would be handled quickly and that the situation would be "taken down hard and fast." [FN528] Some individuals have contended that the helicopter flights over the Weaver compound were designed to lure the subjects out so that they could be targets for the snipers who were under orders to shoot and kill armed adult men."
But how can I expect you to agree when you believe the government has a right to kill its own citizens.
I hate being crazy.