The Obama administration admitted recently that it
had killed four U.S. citizens with air launched missile strikes intentionally or unintentionally.
That admission to a policy letting the government kill citizens without a jury
trial is onerous and anti-democratic. It's definitely a step in the wrong
direction as far as classical liberal protection of individual civil liberties,
and really not necessary as might Abraham Lincoln have argued in behalf of his
largest ever public hanging of first citizens for a reservation revolt during
the civil war, or F.D.R. for ordering the internment without trial of
Japanese-Americans in California. We hope the Congress gives American citizens
at least as much protection from government killing without trial as foreign
heads of state.
The four easy kills with robotic missile strikes are more of a threat to the security of all U.S. citizens than a reinforcement in many senses, for the security of individual citizens from state terrorism and these days corporate and media terrorism was always at the heart of the progress of civil liberties in the west from the day of The Lord to the U.S. and French revolutions.
In the Brave New World of corrupt global and
network-even collective power the properties of individual civil rights are in
decline in favor of mass, collective fiat. The administration has barely
reduced the U.S. unemployment rate yet has bailed out the rich, banks and Wall
Street without end. In the Obamacare health plan the poor and working poor are
left in the cold on the reality of applying Medicare for themselves. If one is
injured as a journeyman worker would he or she really get adequate coverage or
more realistically get a large bill from the emergency room visit? The taking
of human life without necessity is unfortunate; when that human life is
American it is a crime if developed without public trial with objective
standards applicable to all.
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It is not at all reasonable to argue that any
American killed by the President's murder-from-the-sky drone program was
necessary to prevent loss of American life. While the Homeland Security program
isn't well regarded at stopping illegal alien entry, the ingression of
terrorists over the border to cache weapons or explosives from Mexico, or able
to meaningfully well screen out potential terrorists such as the Tsarnaevs even
if warned by the F.S.B. or other foreign intelligence agencies it is necessary
to rely upon their law enforcement work rather than to kill Americans abroad
with missiles from robotic aircraft.
The Delta Force combined in some sort of BlackOPBop
team with elements of the F.B.I. hostage rescue team perhaps helped by the
N.S.A. and a high tech Skunk Works for development of technology to arrest
Americans abroad wanted for terrorism should be able to capture and return for
trial to the U.S.A. U.S. desperados instead of killing them.
The four easy kills with robotic missile strikes are more of a threat to the security of all U.S. citizens than a reinforcement in many senses, for the security of individual citizens from state terrorism and these days corporate and media terrorism was always at the heart of the progress of civil liberties in the west from the day of The Lord to the U.S. and French revolutions.