Because it hasn't been established that al-Awlaki was an enemy soldier, or anything like it.
So you don't have any problem at all with a government acting as judge, jury, and executioner with absolutely no public oversight? Public oversight is precisely what gives governments that kind of authority.
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Date: 2012-03-25 07:19 pm (UTC)So you don't have any problem at all with a government acting as judge, jury, and executioner with absolutely no public oversight? Public oversight is precisely what gives governments that kind of authority.