Re: Killing Anwar al-Awlaki

#735715

anonyme
Participant

It makes no sense to argue that there was no evidence against this man while simultaneously claiming that he was not killed due to his “rhetoric”. As elikapeka pointed out, it is disturbing that due process continues to be so blithely ignored by our government. Some forms of speech are in violation of the law and can be prosecuted. The question is, why didn’t it happen in this case? If it wasn’t prosecutable, then it was free speech – no matter how vile. If there was evidence of other crimes, the argument again returns to the lack of legal process.