"Yeah, because it is always a good idea to kill people rather than seek justice. Innocent until proven guilty don't count if someone can make political hay by ignoring it."
Tread lightly on the subject if you're a lefty and love Obama. Dude is droning weddings and funerals. Then there is the infamous "double tap" drone strikes. Interesting article by Stanford and NYU law schools: http://livingunderdrones.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Stanford_NYU_LIVING_UNDER_DRONES.pdf A key feature of the Obama administrations use of drones has been a reported expansion in the use of signature strikes. Between 2002 and 2007, the Bush administration reportedly focused targeted killings on personality strikes targeting named, allegedly high-value leaders of armed, non-state groups like Salim Sinan al Harethi and Nek Mohammad.51 Under Obama, the program expanded to include far more profile or so-called signature strikes based on a pattern of life analysis.52 According to US authorities, these strikes target groups of men who bear certain signatures, or defining characteristics associated with terrorist activity, but whose identities arent known.53 Just what those defining characteristics are has never been made public. In 2012, the New York Times paraphrased a view shared by several officials that people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good.54 The Times also reported that some in the Obama administration joke that when the CIA sees three guys doing jumping jacks, they think it is a terrorist training camp.55 --- One interviewee stated that, after the drones, people cant go and talk with or sit with anybody at any time. And so they [face great difficulty carrying] on their business and their families.571 One man who lost a cousin in the March 17, 2011 jirga strike, explained: We do not come out of our villages because its very dangerous to go out anywhere. . . . In past we used to participate in activities like wedding gatherings [and] different kinds of jirgas, different kinds of funerals. . . . We used to go to different houses for condolences, and there were all kinds of activities in the past and we used to participate. But now its a risk to go to any place or participate in any activities.572 The fears the interviewees described were not limited to ceremonial gatherings or other large group activities. Many said that they were afraid even to congregate in groups or receive guests in their home --- According to the Associated Press and the New York Times, the President acts as the final decision maker, at least with respect to the decision to carry out personality strikes targeting named individuals. --- A good read. Barack Obama, what a guy. J - Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356973 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
