Re:Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassinatio...
by alexqgb on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @02:37AM
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Maybe, maybe not. But murdering people isn't the only awful thing a government can do. If it feels it can get away with this it'll think it can get away with anything.
Re:Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassinatio...
by shitlord on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @04:06AM
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There's a big difference between killing someone suspected of being a terrorist, and indiscriminately gunning down a bunch of people. The latter is undeniably "murder", but the former, not so much. It's not ideal, but IMO it's not an atrocity.
I guess it all comes down which version of justice you favor: the one prescribed by law or the general consensus for what is acceptable.
Re:Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassinatio...
by alexqgb on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @09:57AM
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Actually, there's no difference at all when one involves the other. (See drone strikes / collateral damage / Hellfire missiles / Yemen).
Also, killing people posing no immediate threat to the lives of others and with no due process is, almost by definition, an act of murder. Not war, murder.
From my experience, the majority of people actually terrified of this are people on the internet. A lot of people are uneasy with it, but only on the internet are people terrified. The government isn't going to go around killing anyone it dislikes willy-nilly.