The legal dilemma over drone strikes: justified killings or war crimes?

[sabrina 1]

37. We have laws that society collectively agreed on through their chosen representatives.

According to those laws elected officials do not have the right to, as you say "maintain and OWN their rights to their own decisions". They asked US, the American people, to trust them to represent us which means they abide by the already agreed-upon laws which are there to help them when they have major decisions to make.

While individuals such as you or I who were not elected and who did not take an oath upon election to 'defend and protect the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic' CAN make our own personal decisions, right or wrong, we did not ask for the trust of the people to make those decisions within in the framework of the US Constitution. Every elected official in this country takes that oath when they are sworn into office.

Now, if America has come to the conclusion, as Bush apparently did, that the Constitution is just a 'piece of paper', then let us decide that it is no longer relevant or workable and stop pretending that we are a 'Country of Laws, Not Men'. Let's just get rid of it altogether, OR, let's start demanding that our elected officials abide by the Rule of Law. One or the other.