From a CNN article on Anwar al-Awlaki:
One of the bizarre facts in this case is that while the son [al-awlaki] repudiates the U.S. legal system, declaring it has no jurisdiction over Muslims, his father is using that very court system on behalf of his son.
That’s totally bizarre. Imagine, using one part of the constitution–the first amendment freedom of speech–and then expecting to be protected by a completely different part of the constitution–the fifth amendment, which prevents the government from killing you whenever it wants to. What will these spoiled US citizens want next: freedom from slavery and the right to vote?
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Gator90
November 9, 2010
Imagine a father availing himself of the legal process to try to prevent the government from murdering his son. Bizarre!!! And there’s not even a superficial contradiction; it seems quite logical that a person who believes that a government lacks jurisdiction over him would contend that the same government lacks jurisdiction to summarily execute him.
omooex
November 10, 2010
Sure, that seems logical on the surface and I almost wrote about it, but then I thought, you know, whenever someone makes America mad, that person’s asking to be killed. Its therefore highly weird to then ask the same government you just asked t0 kill you via your criticism, to then ask that same government not to kill you. Bizarre seems like a fitting word for such a series of acts. Just think of it from the US perspective; they’re like, well, do you want me to kill you, or don’t you? We can’t just have these drones sitting there in the sky wasting gas, wondering if you’ve decided to welcome death from above yet. That’s frankly quite a rude abuse of our hospitality.