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In reply to the discussion: The Rude Pundit: Things in the Memo on the Killing of Americans ... [View all]Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)101. Difference
The corpses that now litter Waziristan were killed in our name.
Adam Lanza did not kill anyone in my name.
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It's called paranoia. It's an illness, and it seems to have infected our government.
JDPriestly
Feb 2013
#4
This is a topic for which the Rude Pundit's style is totally appropriate.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#11
Well, that's right--if Americans in this country were actively engaged in a terror plot, and could
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#24
No--but you have no 4th amendment rights if you are a non-custodial enemy combatant. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#89
Certainly a non-custodial enemy combatant has rights. Just not under the 4th. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#94
You forget your American history. The Barbary pirates were not a nation state
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#106
Massacres perpetrated by domestic right-wing extremists who have been incited to acting out their
indepat
Feb 2013
#50
Given that FBI agents were rooming with a couple of the 9/11 hijackers at one point--
eridani
Feb 2013
#72
Yet the things we WANT Obama to do he can't because "the President doesn't have that much power"
FiveGoodMen
Feb 2013
#77
There is of course some awkwardness in the legal language that is ripe for lambast...
ellisonz
Feb 2013
#17
Greenwald will post, thus saving many from actually having to read what they are outraged over.
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#28
I think there are political, moral, and strategic arguments that can be made against the policy...
ellisonz
Feb 2013
#83
Evidence they chose to align with anyone? This isn't one person but rather policy.
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#48
The list is a secret, you have no evidence. The process is secret and unsupervised, you have no
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#102
1. The Rude Pundit can call the police on his neighbor if he feels that they are a threat
Freddie Stubbs
Feb 2013
#25
Glenn Greenwald, "Expanding the concept of "imminence" beyond recognition"
Luminous Animal
Feb 2013
#27
You cannot be a fugitive beyond justice when you aren't indicted or charged
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#52
Other than those right-wingy thingys, I love virtually everything our President has
indepat
Feb 2013
#46