{"id":26777,"date":"2011-09-30T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2011-09-30T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T21:15:38","slug":"the-smarter-than-you-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26777","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;smarter than you&#8221; crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know someone had to say it. al-Awlaki&#8217;s death has been ruled murder by the &#8220;smarter than you&#8221; crowd, beginning with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-ron-paul-anwar-awlaki-20110930,0,1545350.story?track=rss\">DOCTOR Ron Paul<\/a> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/09\/30\/awlaki\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Due-process-free-murder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Due-process-free-murder.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Due process-free murder\" width=\"462\" height=\"583\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Due-process-free-murder.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Due-process-free-murder-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The vacuous Greenwald goes on to say;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s most amazing is that its citizens will not merely refrain from objecting, but will stand and cheer the U.S. Government&#8217;s new power to assassinate their fellow citizens, far from any battlefield, literally without a shred of due process from the U.S. Government.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Far from any battlefield? al-Awlaki was far from any battlefield when he encouraged Nidal Hasan to murder 14 American soldiers. In fact, Hasan was far from any battlefield when he did his dirty deed. So was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab when he lit his drawers on fire and scorched his nuts off over Detroit that fine Christmas day. Carlos Bledsoe was far from any battlefield on that day that he shot two young soldiers outside of a recruiting station in Little Rock after getting his orders from al-Awlaki.<\/p>\n<p>Um, Glenn, there is no battlefield and the enemy has no rules of warfare. it should have been made clear to you when Daniel Pearl was beheaded for our television entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Glen&#8217;s bedfellow, Ron Paul said;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a good way to deal with our problems,\u201d Paul said in a videotape of the questioning by reporters. Awlaki \u201cwas never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the \u2018underwear bomber.\u2019 But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys. I think it&#8217;s sad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice try&#8230;we had months to &#8220;accept this blindly&#8221; since the White House announced there were shoot to kill orders on al-Awlaki. If the American people had a problem with this, there would have been outrage and marching in the streets which would have made this president waffle, like he did on Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>I guess no one noticed that our enemies in this war don&#8217;t exactly fight by the traditional Western European rules of war and in order to beat them, we have to do unorthodox things. And make no mistake, we HAVE to beat them.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald and Paul are only feeding the terrorists propaganda lines for their next screed.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know someone had to say it. al-Awlaki&#8217;s death has been ruled murder by the &#8220;smarter &hellip; <a title=\"The &#8220;smarter than you&#8221; crowd\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26777\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;smarter than you&#8221; crowd<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}