If you know about a 'Kill List' that is used by the CIA, and that our Drone Bomber Program is the most used tool to carry it out, then you might be more informed then some of the "Representatives" we have in Congress or a Chairperson of the DNC, well informed though you may be, you might only see it as, 'almost unacceptable'.
Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *BELOVED LEADER* * * * * ** *I was at a dinner party last night where, among other inane and cringe-inducing things that were said, a guest proffered that he thought the drone attacks in Pakistan<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/20-4>were "almost unacceptable." * * * *That's a quote. "Almost unacceptable."* * * *I wonder which part of the attack on this man<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220828/US-drone-attacks-CIA-chiefs-face-arrest-horrific-evidence-bloody-video-game-sorties.html>was acceptable? The part where not all his limbs were blown off, just some of them? Or the part where not his entire family was slaughtered, just some of them?* * * *This guest was an Obama supporter who just couldn't bring himself to say that anything his beloved leader does is wrong. (Oh, and this person was at pains to tell us, repeatedly, how "well-informed" he is.)* * * *At least some of us know it's wrong. That's why it's good to see that the legal system, in other countries at least, is standing up and saying so. Let's hope these CIA officials are put on Interpol's list<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220828/US-drone-attacks-CIA-chiefs-face-arrest-horrific-evidence-bloody-video-game-sorties.html> .* ** ------------------------------ *NO STRIKES, YOU'RE STILL OUT* * * * * ** *This is the second case in a week I've read about of an American citizen's being put on the No-Fly List and left stranded abroad<http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/19/14558912-new-york-man-stranded-in-europe-because-of-no-fly-list-advocacy-group-says?lite>. No criminal record, no criminal actions, no suspicion of anything -- other than what's dreamed up in the fevered imaginations of our National Security State goons -- no explanation. Just bingo -- you're not allowed to fly. Tough luck that you're stuck in a foreign country where you probably can't afford a hotel night after night after night after night, not to to mention food, until your government decides that maybe perhaps it might just allow you back home. * * * *Oh, but that's right, I forgot -- we live in a democracy. We live in a free country. Never mind that restriction of travel is one of THE hallmarks of a police state. Let's just ignore that pesky little fact.* * * * * ------------------------------ *R.I.P. GEORGE MCGOVERN* ** *Former Senator and former presidential candidate George McGovern has died at the age of 90. Here's a remembrance from Alexander Reed Kelly at Truthdig<http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_george_mcgovern_20121020/> .* ** ------------------------------ *I will forever be in debt to Glenn Greenwald, who's not afraid to tell it like it is. I know that has put him on the sh*t list of many liberals these days -- the very same liberals who praised him to the skies during the Bush administration. If that alone isn't a ringing endorsement, I don't know what is. -Lisa Simeone* The Remarkable, Unfathomable Ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/20-1> The Chair of the Democratic National Committee is completely unaware of one of the biggest stories of the Obama years *by Glenn Greenwald* ** On 29 May 2012, the New York Times published a remarkable 6,000-word story<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&;>on its front page about what it termed President Obama's "kill list". It detailed the president's personal role in deciding which individuals will end up being targeted for assassination by the CIA based on Obama's secret, unchecked decree that they are "terrorists" and deserve to die. Based on interviews with "three dozen of his current and former advisers", the Times' Jo Becker and Scott Shane provided extraordinary detail about Obama's actions, including how he "por[es] over terrorist suspects' biographies on what one official calls the macabre 'baseball cards'" and how he "insist[s] on approving every new name on an expanding 'kill list'". At a weekly White House meeting dubbed "Terror Tuesdays", Obama then decides who will die without a whiff of due process, transparency or oversight. It was this process that resulted in the death of US citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen, and then two weeks later, the killing of his 16-year-old American son, Abdulrahman, by drone<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-airstrike-that-killed-american-teen-in-yemen-raises-legal-ethical-questions/2011/10/20/gIQAdvUY7L_story.html> .**** The Times "kill list" story made a huge impact and was widely discussed<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-kill-list-is-unchecked-presidential-power/2012/06/11/gJQAHw05WV_story.html>and condemned<http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2012/06/08/obama-kill-list-leaks/>by media figures, politicians, analysts<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obama-kill-list-assassinations-election>, and commentators<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/jon-stewart-on-obamas-kill-list-20120614>. Among other outlets, the New York Times itself harshly editorialized<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/opinion/too-much-power-for-a-president.html>against Obama's program in an editorial entitled "Too Much Power For a President", denouncing the revelations as "very troubling" and argued: "No one in that position should be able to unilaterally order the killing of American citizens or foreigners located far from a battlefield - depriving Americans of their due-process rights - without the consent of someone outside his political inner circle."**** That Obama has a "kill list" has been known since January, 2010, and has been widely reported<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html?hp>and discussed<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/06/AR2010040604121.html?hpid=topnews>in every major American newspaper since April 2010. A major controversy over chronic White House leaks often featured complaints about this article<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/us/politics/senators-want-inquiry-on-national-security-leaks.html>(New York Times, 5 June 2012: "Senators to Open Inquiry Into 'Kill List' and Iran Security Leaks"). The Attorney General, Eric Holder, gave a major speech<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/05/holder-defends-killings-american-citizens-overseas-in-war-on-terrorism/>defending it. **** But Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic Congresswoman from Florida and the Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, does not know about any of this. She has never heard of any of it. She has managed to remain completely ignorant about the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to secretly place human beings, including US citizens, on his "kill list" and then order the CIA to extinguish their lives.**** Just marvel at this stunning, completely inexcusable two-minute display of wholesale ignorance by this elected official and DNC chair. Here she is after the second presidential debate being asked by Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change about the "kill list" and whether Romney should be trusted with this power. She doesn't defend the "kill list". She doesn't criticize it. She makes clear that she has never heard of it and then contemptuously treats Rudkowski like he is some sort of frivolous joke for thinking that it is real:**** ** ** Anyone who observes politics closely has a very low bar of expectations. It's almost inevitable to become cynical - even jaded - about just how inept and inane top Washington officials are. Still, even processing this through those lowly standards, I just find this staggering. Staggering and repellent. This is an elected official in Congress, the body that the Constitution designed to impose checks on the president's abuses of power, and she does not have the foggiest idea what is happening in the White House, and obviously does not care in the slightest, because the person doing it is part of the party she leads.**** One expects corrupt partisan loyalty from people like Wasserman Schultz, eager to excuse anything and everything a Democratic president does. That's a total abdication of her duty as a member of Congress, but that's par for the course. But one does not expect this level of ignorance, the ability to stay entirely unaware of one of the most extremist powers a president has claimed in US history, trumpeted on the front-page of the New York Times and virtually everywhere else.**** © 2012 The Guardian/UK**** http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/20-1 ------------------------------ *If you wish to be removed from this list, please let us know* ** *To join the Liberty Underground News service email libert...@hotmail.com with "join" for a subject* ** *You may also join our talk group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/ if you would like to participate* * * *or join our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/461619557192964/* ** *email: libert...@hotmail.com* ** *Tell your friends about LUV News because some people just don't get it* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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