This is very scary to me. It involves a government “hit list” of Americans that the government says are involved in “terrorist activities that threaten Americans”. Now, I am by far not pro-terrorist, but the fact is that they are American citizens and therefore do have the same God-given rights that are recognized in the Constitution as the rest of us. One of those rights is due process. They are also considered innocent until found guilty by a jury of their peers.
The real problem that I see here has to do with the fact that Joe Lieberman was talking about introducing a bill making it easier for the government to strip people of their citizenship. Do we really want to make it easier for the government to strip people’s citizenship without even being convicted of anything, so that then we can put them on the hit list and have them killed (apparently, we don’t even have to strip their citizenship for that!), all with no trial whatsoever?! NOT ME!!
All they have to do now is broaden the definition of terrorist and/or terrorist activity and presto I am on the list!!
I see an extremely slippery slope here. I can in no way be in favor of this!
The Lieberman article:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36741.html
Military involvement:
Of course the CIA denies it in the disclaimer! “DENY! DENY! DENY!”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012604239.html?hpid=topnews
The original article that started me on this trail of thinking:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/27/yemen/index.html
For the liberals in the audience: None of this is from Fox news!
