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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 02:02 PM
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23. Sure. That seems really, really likely, too...
Edited on Sat Oct-01-11 02:04 PM by MineralMan
I'd stop posting on line, if I were you...you know...just in case. :rofl:
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  -Could the POTUS legally order your assassination tblue  Oct-01-11 12:36 PM   #0 
  - slow down smoking that stuff dude  FreakinDJ   Oct-01-11 12:37 PM   #1 
  - If you don't think this is a serious question  Capitalocracy   Oct-01-11 03:28 PM   #27 
  - I think you're the one who needs to get off the blunts.  provis99   Oct-01-11 04:15 PM   #29 
  - yes, thanks to the Bush Doctrine  ixion   Oct-01-11 12:38 PM   #2 
  - It would seem that way, according to many on DU and I don't see anything  teddy51   Oct-01-11 12:39 PM   #3 
  - If I am outside US territory actively planning terrorist attacks against the US, yes.  Unvanguard   Oct-01-11 12:40 PM   #4 
  - What proof do we have of those accusations?  Vincardog   Oct-01-11 12:43 PM   #8 
  - What proof is ordinarily presented to you when the US government kills someone in a war?  Unvanguard   Oct-01-11 12:55 PM   #14 
     - What war is it of which you speak?  Vincardog   Oct-01-11 12:56 PM   #15 
     - The war al Qaeda declared on us several years ago and we've been fighting ever since. n/t  Unvanguard   Oct-01-11 01:46 PM   #21 
        - "al Qaed" isn't that the same "data base" that OBL created of volunteers to help him, when we (the  Vincardog   Oct-01-11 04:27 PM   #30 
     - What country are we at war with??  Angry Dragon   Oct-01-11 01:01 PM   #17 
     - Who said anything about "country"? n/t  Unvanguard   Oct-01-11 01:46 PM   #22 
        - How do you declare a war on a group or people??  Angry Dragon   Oct-01-11 03:15 PM   #24 
           - What difference does it make?  Unvanguard   Oct-01-11 03:25 PM   #26 
           - Way to really stretch there  Angry Dragon   Oct-01-11 04:10 PM   #28 
           - I'm not saying that wasn't a bad man  tblue   Oct-01-11 07:11 PM   #35 
     - But that's the rub. We should have engaged terrorists as criminals, not a military force. n/t  Scuba   Oct-01-11 01:13 PM   #19 
  - There is nothing in the AUMF (which is Obama's legal fig leaf in this circumstance)  MNBrewer   Oct-01-11 12:48 PM   #10 
     - It's not really a distinction of principle.  Unvanguard   Oct-01-11 12:54 PM   #13 
  - who is the 'spiritual leader'  SixthSense   Oct-01-11 12:40 PM   #5 
  - No but he could ILLEGALLY legally order your assassination and not one of "OUR" elected "leaders"  Vincardog   Oct-01-11 12:40 PM   #6 
  - I'm a big fan of leaving anti-intellectualism to the freepers  Major Nikon   Oct-01-11 12:42 PM   #7 
  - Or the CIA could order it and he goes along with it. Same result.  no_hypocrisy   Oct-01-11 12:47 PM   #9 
  - Rec to 0  Hydra   Oct-01-11 12:50 PM   #11 
  - If no one puts him on trial, then it was all nice and legal. Bush&co are still free, aren't they?  kenny blankenship   Oct-01-11 12:50 PM   #12 
  - Sure, we can trust the CIA with it's long record of accuracy and humanitiarian deeds.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Oct-01-11 12:58 PM   #16 
  - Not legally, but that won't matter until the AUMF as justification for...  MilesColtrane   Oct-01-11 01:09 PM   #18 
  - Yes. It may not seem that way now, but this is as slippery slope. Imagine how it may be in 10-20 yrs  krabigirl   Oct-01-11 01:14 PM   #20 
  - Sure. That seems really, really likely, too...  MineralMan   Oct-01-11 02:02 PM   #23 
  - I know!  tblue   Oct-01-11 07:10 PM   #34 
  - Sure. Why not? We have to defend the homeland against terriorists, pinkos and other radicals.  Better Believe It   Oct-01-11 03:18 PM   #25 
  - It's a little more complicated than that...  pipi_k   Oct-01-11 04:48 PM   #31 
  - If he commits a crime, prosecute him. But ASSASSINATE?!  tblue   Oct-01-11 07:09 PM   #33 
     - Well you must be right...  pipi_k   Oct-01-11 07:38 PM   #36 
  - No, the POTUS can not legally order the assassination of anyone, even in time of war.  ThomWV   Oct-01-11 05:42 PM   #32 
 

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