Obama's drone war and the killing of a 16 year old American citizen.

I recently heard about this on the Bill Maher show.  It is an amazing piece of news.  Awlaki's son, a 16 year old US citizen, was killed by a US drone strike 2 weeks after his father had already been killed.  I usually lean left, but if if this had occurred at the behest of a Republican President, the outcry would have been enormous.  Instead, all the douche bag musicians and actors who feign having brains and caring about the world are mum.  Further, the simple college leftist morons aren't saying anything either.  Why?  Because Obama is a Democrat, he is not white, he is "cool", and it goes against their narrative and worldview.

The murder of an American citizen without any charges against him is bad enough (Awlaki the father), but the murder of an American citizen who is a minor, not alleged to be involved in terrorism in any way, and seemingly entirely devoid of guilt is a more serious matter.  The father was involved in spreading jihadist propaganda; there is potentially a national security threat argument to be made (and I have been out of law school for too long to try to make that argument here), but there is no such case to be made for the son.  This was murder.  Just being in Yemen does not make an American citizen guilty of a crime.  If an Islamist group in Yemen murdered an American citizen, there would have been a demand for the perpetrators to pay, either in prison or with their lives.  Why is it ok if an American citizen is intentionally killed by the American government in Yemen?  Surely, the right to due process of the law is not something to be trampled on, and summary executions of American citizens are not to be taken lightly.  The US government owes its people answers.

Some drone information:

Obama's drone program had killed 4,700 people as of February of this year, according to Senator Lindsey Graham.

Robert Gibbs, the former White House Press Secretary, said that Awlaki's son's murder was caused by bad parenting.

In Pakistan alone, American drones have killed more than 3,000 people.

Here is a video of the courageous Jeremy Scahill, whose research has been the catalyst for the emergence of the topic of Obama's drone war.