It was a bad law anyway
"...after 9/11, President Bush issued a "finding" which makes exceptions from the murder ban for known terrorist leaders if capture is impractical."
"That makes Ford's executive order 11905, the ban on political assassinations, which was updated by subsequent presidents, not very operative any more."
GOOD!
"That makes Ford's executive order 11905, the ban on political assassinations, which was updated by subsequent presidents, not very operative any more."
GOOD!
posted by Fish-2 at 6:40 AM
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Wo - that's where that ban came from. I didn't realize it was Ford who had decreed it. Wow. Should make political life more interesting, huh?
however, I wonder - is it just this country that had that? Did England or other European nations have the same thing? Why couldn't one of them taken the despots out?
Clinton made an attempt - - - after a fashion.
So, nobody was paying attention, anyway.
I seriously doubt political assassination took a hiatus, they just didn't tell anyone.
I don't think killing a terrorist and assassination of a political leader are the same thing.
You don't assasinate a thug. Terrorists are thugs- loosely connected confederates who share the same ideological sentiments.
Haven't we been trying to kill Osama for a while?
Civilized enemies often come to certain arrangements during wartime- like halting hostilities on Christmas Day, or giving each side an option to pick a city that won't be bombed during the conflict. Terrorists lack civility, so they don't get the protection of true heads of state.
True Yorick, but some heads of state are actually thugs and terrorists. North Korea and Iran's leader come to mind to name just a couple.
The plan just isn't moving fast enough ... North Korea and Iran need to be put in glass....
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