CIA Kills Traitor

It is unimaginable to me that a traitor should expect his citizenship protect him.

This guy wants to destroy us, he gets the same as any other enemy.


U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.

The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy.

To eavesdrop on the terrorism suspect who was added to the target list, the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is hiding in Yemen, intelligence agencies would have to get a court warrant. But designating him for death, as C.I.A. officials did early this year with the National Security Council’s approval, required no judicial review.

“Congress has protected Awlaki’s cellphone calls,” said Vicki Divoll, a former C.I.A. lawyer who now teaches at the United States Naval Academy. “But it has not provided any protections for his life. That makes no sense.”

Administration officials take the view that no legal or constitutional rights can protect Mr. Awlaki, a charismatic preacher who has said it is a religious duty to attack the United States and who the C.I.A. believes is actively plotting violence. The attempted bombing of Times Square on May 1 is the latest of more than a dozen terrorist plots in the West that investigators believe were inspired in part by Mr. Awlaki’s rhetoric.

“American citizenship doesn’t give you carte blanche to wage war against your own country,” said a counterterrorism official who discussed the classified program on condition of anonymity. “If you cast your lot with its enemies, you may well share their fate.”

President Obama, who campaigned for the presidency against George W. Bush-era interrogation and detention practices, has implicitly invited moral and legal scrutiny of his own policies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world/14awlaki.html?hp

Autistic Boy Faces Felony Rap

Sometimes I am just amazed in how petty dictators (Public School Officials) can make a mountain out of a molehill.

Autistic Boy Faces Felony Rap for Stick-Figure Sketch

(May 14) -- A 14-year-old autistic boy in Georgia faces possible felony charges of making terroristic threats after he drew a stick-figure version of himself firing a gun at his teacher.

After discovering the crudely rendered drawing that Shane Finn had made on his classwork, officials at Atlanta's Ridgeview Charter School suspended the eighth-grader and decided to pursue charges against him, Fox News in Atlanta reported.

In Finn's drawing, a stick figure identified as "me" is shooting a gun at the head of another stick figure, identified as "hartman," a reference to one of the boy's teachers. Finn also added a tombstone to the picture, with the letters "R.I.P."

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/autistic-georgia-boy-shane-finn-faces-felony-charges-for-stick-figure-drawing/19478384

Spirit Airlines installs pre-reclined seats

Airlines have become very chintzy.

Charging for a snack, soda, carry on baggage, now this niggardly attempt to save a few bucks.

Spirit Airlines installs pre-reclined seat
Spirit Airlines, the low-cost carrier that soon will charge passengers for stowing carry-on bags in overhead bins, is now installing seats that can't move backward or forward on some of its aircraft.

The "pre-reclined" seats — they lean back 3 inches — are already on the airline's two Airbus A320 jets, and it will outfit two more by the end of this year, the airline says.

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=91924.blog