Like many of you, I was surprised when the United States killed one of its own citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki, without even the pretense of due process. This is especially surprising considering that Osama Bin Laden was the subject of numerous charges, arrest warrants, and indictments by grand juries before he was killed - yet Anwar al-Awlaki was assassinated without even the judicial oversight required for a wiretap.
Many of you have written about this more eloquently than I have, so I'm trying not to reinvent the wheel here. Instead, in the spirit of activism, I'm hoping to make this diary more about the community than myself, to solicit advice and talking points so that we can write our representatives & senators more effectively, and urge caution around this new approach to justice.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I'm lending you my ear.
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