Dave Hodges, Contributor
Activist Post
A recent Pew Survey found that 73 percent of surveyed Americans don’t have faith that lawmakers - particularly Congress - will, or are capable of doing the right thing. Should this be a surprise to anyone except our corporate-controlled criminal government? With the exploits of key government officials and their scandals out in the open, are these results any surprise? On the whole, recent developments on the high-tech weapons front concretely justify America’s mistrust of their elected officials.
When Obama campaigned for his present job in 2008, he promised to stop the torture of prisoners, as well as the unsanctioned murders. He also promised to close Guantanamo. He roundly chastised the criminality of the Bush administration for participating in the aforementioned crimes. A little over four years later, the torturing of prisoners continues, Guantanamo is still open and murders of nonmilitary targets have exponentially increased through the use of drones.
The Droning of Americans
Since 2009, Obama’s minions, through aerial assaults, also have killed three U.S. citizens as well as countless of innocent civilians in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obama’s actions beg the question as to whether the president has the right to order the death of Americans without due process of law.
One of those controversial and well-publicized drone attacks involved the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. He was an American citizen and, at the same time, a radical Muslim cleric who had relocated his family to Yemen. He was rumored to be involved in repeated attempts to attack the U.S., including the Christmas Day underwear bomber plot in 2009 that would have blown up a passenger jet over Detroit. The murder of Anwar al-Awlaki was committed without any due process of law. MORE
Activist Post
A recent Pew Survey found that 73 percent of surveyed Americans don’t have faith that lawmakers - particularly Congress - will, or are capable of doing the right thing. Should this be a surprise to anyone except our corporate-controlled criminal government? With the exploits of key government officials and their scandals out in the open, are these results any surprise? On the whole, recent developments on the high-tech weapons front concretely justify America’s mistrust of their elected officials.
When Obama campaigned for his present job in 2008, he promised to stop the torture of prisoners, as well as the unsanctioned murders. He also promised to close Guantanamo. He roundly chastised the criminality of the Bush administration for participating in the aforementioned crimes. A little over four years later, the torturing of prisoners continues, Guantanamo is still open and murders of nonmilitary targets have exponentially increased through the use of drones.
The Droning of Americans
Since 2009, Obama’s minions, through aerial assaults, also have killed three U.S. citizens as well as countless of innocent civilians in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obama’s actions beg the question as to whether the president has the right to order the death of Americans without due process of law.
One of those controversial and well-publicized drone attacks involved the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. He was an American citizen and, at the same time, a radical Muslim cleric who had relocated his family to Yemen. He was rumored to be involved in repeated attempts to attack the U.S., including the Christmas Day underwear bomber plot in 2009 that would have blown up a passenger jet over Detroit. The murder of Anwar al-Awlaki was committed without any due process of law. MORE
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