Blog #4-Anwar al-Awlaki's extrajudicial murder

    In this article a man named Anwar al-Awlaki how he was targeted and viciously murdered. Awlaki was outside of a war zone, as Awlaki was lethal force can only be employed in the narrowest and the very slim circumstances and when the opposite opponent is seen as an immediate threat. Therefore officials had no right to viciously target and kill him seeing how no crime was committed by Awlaki. The President however, seems to think different and he believes that Awlaki was an "operational terriorist" and that he would've harmed the US if he wasn't killed. However, unless Awlaki's alleged terrorists actions were imminent and unless deadly force employed as a last resort, this killing in the eyes of the ACLU and his family constitutes murder. They felt so strongly about this senseless killing, that they decided to take it to the courts but sadly they lost due to the lack of evidence and on the procedural grounds. However this case has raised eyebrowns and stired out a controversy debating whether or not do executive have the right to order the assassination of a US citizen without first affording him any form of judicial process? Many believe that this case went against the total human rights act because he was viciously killed on no grounds whatsoever and with no substantial evidence that he was even a immediate threat to the United States. The Government however, doesn't believe this act breaks any part of the human rights act and still believes that Awlaki was a threat. His family however are left to mourn with the sudden lost of Awlaki without so much as an apology or anything.
   I do agree with Awlaki's family that justice was indeed NOT served. It is still unclear whether or not that Awlaki was indeed a terriorist, the fact of the matter is that his human rights were simply ignored and his life was so senselessly taken from him. We can becker back and forth all day about if he was a suspected terriorist, but the truth is we're wrong for taking a life seeing how that was simply NO evidence that he was an immediate threat to the United States. Therefore you have to answer this question, on what grounds really did the United States have to kill this man? I definitely think this case should be retried and government should stand up and take responsibility for their actions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/30/anwar-awlaki-extrajudicial-murder