<<This is absolutely availible to the entire Al Queda , including Osama Bin Laden , it only requires that they surrender themselves to responsible authoritys.>>
Basically, my slippery slope comment referred specifically to the assassination of American citizens abroad by Dennis Blair or his employees. Technically, the one American citizen who was killed by a drone attack in Yemen was in a car on a highway, driving from point A to point B. There was no "combat" going on, no evidence even that the guy was armed for combat and it's only by the most twisted and artificial distortion of the plain meaning of words that it could be claimed the guy was in combat or even a "combatant" let alone an "enemy" combatant when he was a citizen of the United States of America.
And this citizen, deprived arbitrarily of a right to be informed of charges against him, of a fair trial and appellate review, was summarily put to death on the say-so of some civil servants who had determined [something] we don't know exactly what, and that he deserved to die.
So I'll ask again, and hopefully get an answer that does not refer to OBL, does not refer to "enemy combatants" but to American citizens, is this how you think your government should deal with its citizens? And also, if it can do this to them abroad, how much of a leap is it for them to acquire the power to do this to them within the borders of the U.S.A.?
<<I would reccomend US Marshals or RCMP who have a pretty good reputation for holding prisoners in comfort , but these guys are world travelers , so if they preferred a European trial they could turn themselves in at the Hague just as easily as they went to Africa or Asia.>>
And if you're dealing with domestic American criminals, is it OK to kill them on sight if they are dodging a court summons? I mean, for people who mistrust the ability of the government to manage Social Security, to administer an efficient public health insurance scheme, to run General Motors, etc., you seem to have a huge amount of faith in these same bungling civil servants to determine life or death for an American citizen on the basis of whether or not he's a terrorist. So I need to know, how come? How is it that conservatives who don't trust the government to run an insurance company can entrust the lives of American citizens abroad to it?
<<Osama is really missing this trick, his right to a trial would make him a star at the biggest trial ever held in Europe , if only he had the courage to take advantage of it .>>
Osama doesn't believe in infidel law, only Koranic law. If he submitted now to infidel law, he'd be betraying everything that he stood for and look like a schmuck to his followers.
