http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/opinion/justifying-the-killing-of-an-american.html?scp=1&sq=justifying%20the%20killing%20of%20an%20american&st=cse
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From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Subject: re:Justifying the Killing of an American
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen, with constitutional guarantees of due process of law. Indeed, if our courts were empowered to strip any of us of citizenship, all our "rights" would be merely boons granted at the courts' pleasure. Unless he walked into a U.S. courthouse or embassy to renounce his citizenship, U.S. law permits only one scenario in which he would not be entitled to a full trial (whether in person on in absentia). Our statute provides that we can infer that one has renounced U.S. citizenship by:"serving in the armed forces of a foreign state if such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the United States" . Name that state and show that al-Awlaki served in armed forces, and you have a case for denying him a trial. Until then, he's a murder victim.
Barry Haskell Levine
From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Subject: re:Justifying the Killing of an American
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen, with constitutional guarantees of due process of law. Indeed, if our courts were empowered to strip any of us of citizenship, all our "rights" would be merely boons granted at the courts' pleasure. Unless he walked into a U.S. courthouse or embassy to renounce his citizenship, U.S. law permits only one scenario in which he would not be entitled to a full trial (whether in person on in absentia). Our statute provides that we can infer that one has renounced U.S. citizenship by:"serving in the armed forces of a foreign state if such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the United States" . Name that state and show that al-Awlaki served in armed forces, and you have a case for denying him a trial. Until then, he's a murder victim.
Barry Haskell Levine
5 comments:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111012/OPINION01/110120313/1008/opinion01/U.S.-born-terror-suspects-deserve-legal-due-process-and-open-trials
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-signed-anwar-al-awlakis-death-warrant/2011/10/10/gIQAOnb3aL_story.html
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-16/obama-team-s-al-awlaki-memo-furthered-bush-legacy-noah-feldman.html
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/2011/10/morris-davis-anwar-al-awlaqi.php
http://www.thebradentontimes.com/news/2011/10/22/opinion/anwar_al_awlaki_s_case_should_raise_red_flags_with_americans/
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