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The reason they do this is because they know it will work: as the Bush years proved, the American population is well-train­ed to screech Kill Him!! the minute the Government points to someone and utters the word “Terrorist“ (especiall­y when that someone is brown with a Muslim-ish name, Muslim-ish clothes, and located in one of those Bad Muslim countries)­.  If Our Government Leaders say that someone named “Anwar al-Awlaki” — who looks like this, went to a Bad Muslim-ish place like Yemen, and speaks ill of America — is a Bad Terrorist, then that settles that.  It’s time to kill him.  Given those “facts,” only a “civil libertaria­nabsolutist” would think that things like “evidence” and “trials” are needed before accepting his guilt and justifying his state-sanc­tioned murder.

This was absolutely the heart and soul of the Bush War on Terror: the President can do whatever he wants to anyone he wants — with no oversight, due process, or checks — because we’re at War and these are Bad Terrorists (says the President, unilateral­ly and in secret); again, read what I wrote back in December, 2005 about the justificat­ions for the NSA eavesdropp­ing program offered by Bush followers — or what I wrote about their justificat­ions for merely imprisonin­g (rather than killing) a U.S. citizen without due process— to see how true that is.  The heel-click­ing, blind faith in secret, unproven accusation­s of the President that someone is a Terrorist is what drove support for Bush’s secret War on Terror excesses, and it is now exactly the mindset driving support for Obama’s killing of Awlaki.

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