This posting is prompted by the news story about the Pakistani Taliban leader killed by a drone strike.
I'm waiting for drone strikes to come to the United States. You're sitting in a restaurant and notice three guys walking across the parking lot. Then, out of the blue, there's a flash and a boom and ... they're just gone! (Along with two cars — collateral damage.) You find out later that one was a serial killer and the other two were his brother and a friend. How convenient for the authorities! No trial, no appeals, no death row; just flash, boom and "Can you identify these body parts, ma'am?" You say it can't happen here and mumble something about the Constitution. Are you sure?
As long as each State has its own sovereign fleet of drones and operates within state lines, I have no quarrel. The Constitutional problem arises as the Feds start crossing state lines without paying, say State Airport subsidies.
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