ACLU files suit against Obama, Petraeus on behalf of dead Al Qaeda terrorists

I think we have to be very careful who we target in the future, but so far, I say:- "Job well Done!"

I am sick and tired of this organization. They have to be American haters. They should have their american citizenship revoked and live in another country. Any country but ours.

Send the ACLU over there and we can treat them as terrerists

We should sue the ACLU for a lot of our military deaths because of their stupid taking up with any thing anti America. The ACLU needs to go to the scene to gather their information for their law suit. Issue them nice shirts with a big yellow strips so they would be safe? For a few seconds?

I am really disappointed by the actions of the ACLU. I've always felt they played an important role, but this reflects on them so poorly. What are they thinking and why would they take up the cause for such a heinous act? They have truly lost it. The need to drop the suits, apologize to the American people and withdraw from the public scene until they have a better understanding of their purpose.

Are we not the greatess nation there is when the freedom the military has won for all of us and still allow's us to make jackass's of our self if we so choose.

Round em all up, herd em all into a big field and show them a whole lot of "friendly fire". Toss in all the Phelps clan and the Westboro Baptist church trash. Maybe they'd like to picket while they're dodging bullets.

I am NOT sorry to say that one cannot be sued for defending oneself. Furthermore, it ought to be against our law for ACLU to have the word "American" in their name; rather, it should read 'Anti-US Criminal Liberties Union". No member of ACLU has ever been in the US military (unless, of course, they received a dishonorable discharge).
Someone should feed some pseudo-intel to Al-Queda 'listeners' that ACLU headquarters is really a front for terrorist interrogations ops.

No safe haven, any time, any where. If they are eating lamb kabobs in the bazaar, let them worry that a navy seal may give them 3 in the head. Then let the lawyers sort it out. X:)

How can an American be judged and sued for fulfilling their legally-binding oath to protect and defend America against ANY enemy, foreign or DOMESTIC? This is another example of bad lawyers who have no understanding nor knowledge regarding the laws they went to school to learn and defend!

In plain English F them & the ACLU! die you bastards!!!!! Time to take them all out!

This organization has been nothing but a bunch of tradiors to the American People and they should be sued and hopefully put out of bussiness. They do not deserve to have the name American in their so called title.

First, we should rescind these American terrorists' citizenship, then kill them. Now we have not deprived any US citizen of due process. They ended their right to citizenship when they decided they no longer wanted to live by our culture and enjoy our freedoms.

Sure, they can sue. Personally, I think relying on drone strikes is somehat cowardly. The US has superb SpecOps teams (re OBL). Taking out a beligerant is one option. Better, is capture and interrogation by other than physical torture. I feel under Bush and Obama, the Exec was looking for cost cutting. If one can eliminate the opposition from Creech AFB with round bottoms manning the Joy-sticks, that means one can cut the DOD budget. What is the primary responsibility of the US Gov't? Defense. Not the Socialization of society!

These liberals have lost their way. The United States need protection from all enemies and apparently that now includes a bunch of ultra liberals calling themselves the ACLU. What is wrong with these people? If they don't like this Country then they should go live in the ones that espouse our downfall. The'll have plenty to choose from.

The sad part of this is the courts of this time may agree with the ACLU!

I was going to jump in here, but you know what, let the dumb a$$es in the ACLU file there law suit. Then we will be able to see just what kind of judges we have sitting on the Federal Bench! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

I hate Jane Fonda, I hate aclu. They should all be dropped off in syria right in the middle of all the action. Nuff said.

I have NOT been a fan of the ACLU. This type of activity is not protecting our civil liberties but probabily causing sever harm to them. We need to start a postive American Liberties Organization to get the ACLU to focus on what they say they are protecting.

The ACLU should be put out of business(legally of course). I don't know of a single good thing they have done for this country. They were involved with the civil rights movement in the sixties but were not the driving force behind it and the results of that movement would have come about without them. SO I say try them for treason. Also the constitution says the penalty for treason is death and as for as I am concerned US citizens commit acts of terrorism and those who support them are committing treason.

It is time to do away with this group. Let our fighting pepole do what is needed to keep this country FREE. From an old Sailor.

Let me first say, I am proud to be a former infantryman and an attorney. Let me follow that with I have no reason to doubt that the individuals targeted and killed in the drone strikes which form the underlying basis for this lawsuit were terroists and proper targets of our nation's war on terror. However, several of the individuals killed were also american citizens. Setting aside the ACLU's sensational muck raking and longstanding anti-american agenda for the moment, this case in the abstract does raise some interesting issues regarding the due process american citizens are entitled to abroad.

If some ill advised american citizen decides that Yemen is the must see destination for their vacation abroad and is inadvertantly killed in a drone strike, no due process issue is raised as their was not targeting of the citizen and the killing is the inadvertant result of offensive operations in a combat zone. However, if the individual is an american citizen and a traitor, i.e. a terrorist, and he or she is specifically targeted with a drone strike and killed, huge due process issues necessarily follow.

Can the executive branch, i.e. the President, unilaterally issue a kill order for an american citizen as long as the killing is orchestrated abroad? Clearly, if that citizen were accused of treason while within our nation's borders the Constitution would require that they be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death prior to their killing by the state. Is a citizen's presence within our nation's borders the only distinguishing factor which precludes our President from issuing what is essentially a writ of attainer for the killing of a US citizen? Surely, this cannot be the case.

It seems to me that if american citizens are met on the battlefield raising arms against the United States, they can, and should be, engaged with deadly force. However, if the mission is to specifically target an american citizen for a drone strike abroad based on their status as a terrorist, prior to the issuance of a kill order there should first have to be some prima facie showing by the executive branch that the citizen is indeed a terroist.

We do not live in a nation where the President may unilaterally order the killing of US citizens, our predecessors began rolling back this precedent with the Magna Carta. The fact that the killings occur abroad does not, in my opinion, alter the Constitutional necessity for independent classified judicial review of such targeted killings. Without such judicial review the power of life and death over all US citizens abroad will have been unilaterally consolidated in the Executive Branch. Such a result flies in the face of the system of checks and balances embodied in the US Constitution.

To be clear here, I am not suggesting that our nation can not freely engaged the enemy in a combat zone for fear of hitting a US citizen. If their are terroists in a shack in Yemen, a drone strike sounds like a great idea to me. However, when the mission is specifically aimmed at killing a US citizen I believe due process requires more than a unilateral kill order issued by the President.

Drones are new and promising technologies, they should be used to the fullest extent possible to kill our enemies and to safeguard the lives of our nation's service men an women. We can get there, just bear in mind our legal system is ancient and moves much slower than emerging battlefield situations. If one ignores the ACLU's inflammatory representation of traitors, we can look deeper and take away some insight about the need for legal reform. I am of the opinion that with thoughtful legal reform the effective use of drones can be sustained without fundementally disfiguring the fabric of our Constitution.

Thoughts?

F**king disgusting.

A thoughtful comment by David.

When an American joins forces with a nation; grou; or whatever, and takes up arms against their own country; they have forfited their citizenship in that country and no loger have any rights or protectio0ns afforded by that country's laws!!! Of course I keep saying that the ACLU is not for the American people, but is the brainchild of the American Communist party for the purpose of using our freedoms and laws to destroy us from within!!! In my book - all members of the ACLU should be hung by their toes for being the biggest traitor's of all times - Americans for Communism!!! I guess they think we would make a better communist country then Russia, China, North Korea, oir Vietnam!

The ACLU is the legal arm of the radical left, and as such they are happy to defend anyone and everyone that hates our country as much as they do. Only in the USA are the ACLU and all those of their ilk free to tear down the very freedoms that allow them to operate as they do. That degree of freedom exists NOWHERE ELSE in the world. The ACLU and all their sympathizers should pack up and and move to Yemen or a similar country where human rights are all but non-existent.

As a member of both the American Legion and the ACLU, I deplore the activities of Americans who take positions and/or arms in opposition to the USA. However, I support the legal rights of these families to make the US government prove that those Americans were indeed opposing the USA by force of arms. After all the civil rights of all of us is one of the right that the constitution guarantees to all. That some one accused these victims of treason, it needs to be proven not simply alleged. How many times has our "intelligence operatives" gotten it wrong? Accusation is not enough.

i AM A DISABLED SERVICE CONNECTED usnAVY AND YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME COMMENTING. tHE gOVERNMENT DON'T CARE, THE aMERICAN lEGION DAM SURE DON'T CARE AND aclu AND OTHER LIKE THEM SURE AS HELL DON'T CARE. sO BLOW SMOKE UP SOMEONE ELSE'S BUTT. tHOSE JERKS RULES THIS COUN TRY ALONG WITH naacp. iF WE HAD A WHITE TV STATION IT WOULD LAST A WEEK BUT THE bLACK eNTERTAINMENT NETWORK IS THRIVING. wHY?

I think that being at the painful end of a drone strike is a fitting end for these SOB's that take up arms against the US, but I have to disagree with a lot of the comments regarding the ACLU. The ACLU provides an important service in the defense of liberty in this country. The government is an extremely powerful organization and could care less in the rights of individual citizens. Fellow citizens themselves don't stand up for rights, just look at the number of people in this thread calling for expulsion, torture, and murder of their fellow citizens for the grave offense of offering a different political opinion. I don't care for all the ACLU does, but I'm sure grateful they do it.

The FBI, CIA should now be free to spy and ease drop on the ACLU. They have now shown they are for the enemy and against America.

The ACLU Esquires are looking for headlines in US & world papers/Chicken Noodle News (CNN)/BBC!
It would be nice to see these members of a world wide terrorist orginization put on trial costing US Tax payers millions with the ACLU defending them daily on cable TV. However our friends at Lockheed Martin have saved the taxpayers so much by providing the US Government the tools to deal them what Yahwey, Allah, and/or our Father has ment to be.

It,s great,complain all you want. This is still a great country. Only problem is no one has the guts to come here and invade it; see just who will stand up to defend our Freedom. I know we have been suckered punched, but, thats it. If the going gets tough, we,as Americans will stand up to anything the world can throw at us. Not some people that think this can,t happen or are Liberal enough to think that the rest of the world is just like we are. Open our doors (leagally) let the oppressed in and we shall see what will happen when the time comes.

The wall street bankers didnt do anything the govt didnt let them do..who made the banks give loans to people who couldnt pay for them? Who deregulated the derivitive market? What politicians benefited from the economic down turn? The banks have paid back the tarp..gm still owes tax payers 30 billion on obamas union rescue. The aclu was founded by communists that came here running from nazis...what do expect?

Next they will try and sue individual soldiers for killing terrorist. I did my part on all 9 tours and I will do it again!!!
V/R
True American

I fought in operation enduring freedom for those that perished during 9/11. Where is the justice for all those families. I would like to sue al qaedada on their behalf. How about that ACLU.

the aclu is a bunch of bullshit, always has been , always will be.

ACLU - Americans Causing Loss of Unity These folks mean well but their common sense for American freedom and preservation has gone out the window.

Why doesn't that surprise me!

If you live in the US and enjoy our way of life, then stand up for our Country and be proud. If you are against our way of life, then get out or expect the worst. Other countries don't put up with individuals who threaten death and distruction, so don't expect it here either! We should have long ago abolished the ACLU and any other agency that goes against our government or our people! They have proven they are not true Americans! Let them go to some 3rd world country and try their garbage!

Isn't this a great country, or what? Where else can the goats sue the sheepdogs for killing the wolves that attack the sheep? Yes, these are metaphors, but truly reflect the unique greatness of our nation. I sleep very well knowing we have great Americans capable of executing these difficult tasks.

I have no problem with our country protecting US. We need to make sure that anyone who does harm to our people are made to pay with there lives. The problem I have with the ACLU is they are tieing up our courts with something they have no business getting involved in. Maybe the next drone drop should be on the ACLU office.

Dear Mr. Gerald T. Richards: You Sir obviously do not know where your true loyalties lie. Please immediately resign your membership in the American Legion until you do decide because I have no desire to serve alongside one who is sympathetic to causes that seek to destroy the United States of America.

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