Constitution in the name of law enforcement. The threats to liberty seem endless. It seems we have forgotten to target the enemy. Instead we have inadvertently targeted the rights of American citizens. I see good reason for American citizens to be concerned -- not only about another terrorist attack, but for their own personal freedoms [and Constitutional rights]. Mr. Holder: the "hour" of danger will never pass. We should not concede to the President, then -- to any President, not even to President Obama -- the unilateral authority to assassinate American citizens if they can be painted as a threat. Power, once it is granted, has a tendency to stick. I don't want a Rick Santorum or a Newt Gingrich so well equipped to kill my countrymen. Do you? I don't particularly disagree either, but I attended a conference a couple of years ago where John Gardner gave a talk about the Jean Charles de Menezes case. As I recall, part of his argument was that while it is, of course, a morally bad thing to be killed, it is morally worse when the killing is done by the agents of the state. I don't know that he's ever included this argument in any of his published work, so maybe he was just suggesting it for sake of discussion, but it's seems like it could be relevant here. Perhaps the point is that a State killing its own citizes is worse because in that case there is no goverment to