Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Dana
mmm. I got sucked into the National Archives project on wikisource this weekend, and spent some time categorizing some of the legal documents from Guantanamo. Yeah, that place, the one that's still there and that houses the worst of the worst supposedly. One particularly telling affidavit from on

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
2011 12:40 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: US Govt kills US Citizen > > > Congress declared war on al Qaeda, he joined al Qaeda. > > Done. > > . > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! htt

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Larry Lyons
>Actually, they aren't complaining at all. > >You bleeding hearts are comical when it comes to your perceived enemy. > Bleeding hearts? you have got to be joking. How many AQ leaders did your glorious leader get during his 8 years? And what is the count for the current presiden? According to

RE: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Roberts
No...congress did not declare war against Al Queda. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:40 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: US Govt kills US Citizen Congress declared war on al Qaeda, he joined al Qaeda. Done. . On Mon, Oct

RE: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Roberts
Still doesn't make it right. I didn't like it when Bush did it and I don't like it when Obama does it. -Original Message- From: Ras Tafari [mailto:rastaf...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 11:24 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: US Govt kills US Citizen id

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
But the Right supports Obama on this. Even Cheney came out and said Obama should apologize for being against this before he did it himself. Again, the only people I can find that don't support this: Gruss, ACLU and Ron Paul. None represent the Right. So while I agree the Right does see somethin

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread GMoney
Depends on what you mean by "the right" Governor Perry praised the action. Ron Paul did not. I haven't heard much condemnation from "the right", other than some Ron Paul grumblings and from some of the far, far right loonies who would always find fault. I think most Republicans I know would ap

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Maureen
The fact is that the right something wrong with everything Obama does. You can't deny that by going to any website. The only bias I have is against lies, spin and disinformation, which you seem to eat for breakfast every morning. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Sam wrote: > > And I proved it

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2011-10-03 Thread Sam
And I proved it wasn't a fact. You can too by going to the sites Larry mentioned and do a search. Your bias does not a fact make. . On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I didn't post a stereotype, I posted a fact.  It explains a lot that > you can't tell the difference. ~~~

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Maureen
I didn't post a stereotype, I posted a fact. It explains a lot that you can't tell the difference. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Sam wrote: > > I was responding to your stereotype. So you start. > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Maureen wrote: >> >> Is it possible for you to debate a sing

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
I was responding to your stereotype. So you start. . On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Is it possible for you to debate a single point without resorting to > stereotyping and name calling? > > ~| Order the Ad

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2011-10-03 Thread Maureen
Is it possible for you to debate a single point without resorting to stereotyping and name calling? On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Sam wrote: > > Actually, they aren't complaining at all. > > You bleeding hearts are comical when it comes to your perceived enemy. ~

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
Actually, they aren't complaining at all. You bleeding hearts are comical when it comes to your perceived enemy. . On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Yeah, but they aren't complaining because they think it was illegal, > they are just bitching because Obama did it, and in their

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2011-10-03 Thread Sam
I just searched both those sites and it's seems you made that up. . On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Larry Lyons wrote: > > Maybe so, but I've seen teh exact same debate and arguments used in places > like the forums on Hannity's and Limbaugh's sites as well has townhall.com. > Those reich w

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Larry Lyons
>To play devils advocate here, have you ever seen al-Awlaki armed? Or >even on a battlefield? How do I even know what you look like. But he was travelling in a convoy of 5 trucks with an armed escort. he's appeared in multiple web videos with an AK-47. So yes. hey may have been. > >It seems t

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Maureen
Yeah, but they aren't complaining because they think it was illegal, they are just bitching because Obama did it, and in their eyes anything he does it wrong. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Larry Lyons wrote: > > Maybe so, but I've seen teh exact same debate and arguments used in places > lik

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Larry Lyons
Maybe so, but I've seen teh exact same debate and arguments used in places like the forums on Hannity's and Limbaugh's sites as well has townhall.com. Those reich wingers are having fits over it. > Gruss is not the right wing, he's the left wing. The only other folks > complaining are the ACLU

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
Congress declared war on al Qaeda, he joined al Qaeda. Done. . On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Yup...extrajudicial killing of US citizens is wrong...the only way I can see > that is if that person was an imminent threatlike if we knew he was > lighting off a bomb o

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > idk man, you play with dogs and you get fleas. > Yeah tell me about it LOL ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/d

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Ras Tafari
idk man, you play with dogs and you get fleas. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Yup...extrajudicial killing of US citizens is wrong...the only way I can see > that is if that person was an imminent threatlike if we knew he was > lighting off a bomb or something in the

RE: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Roberts
Yup...extrajudicial killing of US citizens is wrong...the only way I can see that is if that person was an imminent threatlike if we knew he was lighting off a bomb or something in the immediate future.. -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:grussg...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday,

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Munn
It's a bad precedent, not the least because of the questions around Awlaki. FYI, apparently Obama took a page from Bush and had a lawyer write an opinion as to why it was OK to kill this guy. I thought he opposed all those Bush-era legal memos? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/

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2011-10-03 Thread Jacob
Nope.. Don't join an organization like Al Qaeda and you wont have this issue... -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:grussg...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:18 PM To: cf-community Subject: US Govt kills US Citizen It seems pretty universal by people in govt that

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Larry Lyons
> How do we know all of that is true? Is the "battlefield" now > everywhere? Does that now mean the govt can do whatever it wants > where ever it wants as long as it says it was because of "battle" on > the "battlefield" > > Are you saying that if we simply change the marketing around a govt

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
He's an enemy combatant that has declared war on the US. Think Civil War where we killed our own. Did I hear he's still alive? . On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > That's what the Germans and the japanese and the chinese and the libyans and > the tunisians and the thou

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-03 Thread Sam
Gruss is not the right wing, he's the left wing. The only other folks complaining are the ACLU and Ron Paul. . On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Larry Lyons wrote: > > Funny how the reich wing first whines about how Obama and the current > administration is weak on terrorism, but when the admin

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-02 Thread Maureen
Yep. If they're gonna kill people for spreading propaganda, I've got a long list. And none of the names start with Al. On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > To play devils advocate here, have you ever seen al-Awlaki armed? Or > even on a battlefield? > > It seems to me that

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-02 Thread Judah McAuley
To play devils advocate here, have you ever seen al-Awlaki armed? Or even on a battlefield? It seems to me that this role was more of a propaganda role, ala Tokyo Rose in WWII. There were a couple of Tokyo Rose's but the US Citizens who were accussed of such roles were all pardoned and/or release

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2011-10-02 Thread Larry Lyons
No not really. It's the same situation as in WW1 and WW2 where several thousand US citizens served in the Nazi and Italian Fascist armies. Quite a few of those were killed by the US or it's Allies. Both Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan were the same they were armed belligerents on a battlefield i

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2011-10-02 Thread Gruss Gott
That's what the Germans and the japanese and the chinese and the libyans and the tunisians and the thought too. I was just in Germany and got stuck in a 4 hour traffic jam outside of Leipzig (former east germany). That gave me lots of time to meet some old timers and guess what? They're

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-02 Thread Gruss Gott
How do we know all of that is true? Is the "battlefield" now everywhere? Does that now mean the govt can do whatever it wants where ever it wants as long as it says it was because of "battle" on the "battlefield" Are you saying that if we simply change the marketing around a govt assassinati

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-02 Thread Greg Morphis
I think we've been taking care of enemies of the state for a long time now, so nothing to worry about! ;) I, somehow, don't think America will be in the next Nazi regime. On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > I got that from a guy I worked with who was/is from former east Germa

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-02 Thread Larry Lyons
> It seems pretty universal by people in govt that this guy was a bad > guy, but it's also troubling that the US would assassinate a US > citizen on foreign soil without due process; especially given this > administrations previous assertions that trial of terrorists is > possible. > > Anyone

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2011-10-02 Thread Gruss Gott
I got that from a guy I worked with who was/is from former east Germany. He used to remind me that the first country the Nazis invaded was Germany and described how it started with giving the state power to go after enemies of the state without any process. Within three years the government w

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-02 Thread Greg Morphis
The simple fact he was an known al Qaeda terrorist warrants his death. Comparing their targeting of a terrorist to someone's wife is funny though. Thanks for that laugh! On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > But isn't that everything the US is against? You start with this guy

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-01 Thread Gruss Gott
But isn't that everything the US is against? You start with this guy and whats the difference with abducting your wife in the middle of the night? Or looked at another way, what if France missiles a car in Miami and says, "don't worry, a drone from Martinique did it and even though we're not

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-01 Thread Casey Dougall
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Casey Dougall < ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > >> >> It seems pretty universal by people in govt that this guy was a bad guy, >> but it's also troubling that the US would assassinate a US citizen on

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-01 Thread Anthony Weeg
fuck him. Sent from my iPhone... Don't hate. On Oct 1, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > >> >> It seems pretty universal by people in govt that this guy was a bad guy, >> but it's also troubling that the US would assassinate a U

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-01 Thread Casey Dougall
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > It seems pretty universal by people in govt that this guy was a bad guy, > but it's also troubling that the US would assassinate a US citizen on > foreign soil without due process; especially given this administrations > previous assertions t

Re: US Govt kills US Citizen

2011-10-01 Thread Maureen
It bothers me anytime our government kills someone without due process - be they US citizen, a supposed terrorist leader or a so-called dictator. When it is done in secret under the cover of covert intelligence, how are we to know who really made the decision, and what would they do to us if we d