A cache of classified documents reveals the inner workings of US drone operations in Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan. They describe the procedure for assassinating people by remote control. The whistleblower wants to remain anonymous because of Obama’s aggressive prosecution against previous whistleblowers. He says that Americans have a right to know the process by which people are placed on kill lists and then assassinated. The eight articles included in this group come from The Intercept, the same publication that is working with Edward Snowden. The Intercept 2015 Oct 15 (Story) (Cached)
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
What are we to think of assassination as an official policy of governments?
The lead article this week reveals in minute detail how the US military tracks and kills people around the globe who are labeled as terrorists. It is difficult to read that without becoming fearful for our own safety, not because we are terrorists or enemies of America, but because just the opposite is true.
To love one’s country is not the same as loving the leaders of one’s country. It often has happened in history that the highest level of patriotism requires opposition to corruption within one’s government. The problem with that is obvious. Government leaders are the ones who get to say who the nation’s enemies are. If the leaders are corrupt, they will declare that anyone attempting to expose their corruption is an enemy of the state. In today’s world, that translates into being a domestic terrorist.
Many Americans approve assassination of terrorists because they accept the verdict handed down by the CIA and the President that the targets really are enemies of the American people who are plotting to bring death and destruction to Main street, USA.
Let us not challenge that assumption. Let us believe that all of those targets in the Middle East really were threats to citizens of the United States. Even so, a military strategy that kills nine innocent civilians for every one enemy combatant is not defensible. In a future global tribunal, it even might be called a war crime.
The thing that causes uneasiness over safety here at home is that corrupted leaders will go to any length to preserve their power. It is clear to me that we are rapidly approaching the point where anyone who opposes or even criticizes a political leader will be declared a domestic terrorist, the lap-dog media will repeat the accusation with solemnity, the uninformed public will accept it as truth, and the drones will be re-programmed for use right here at home.
That is where we are headed, but we don’t have to get there. If we can accelerate the growth of the present freedom movement and become a unifying force among all organizations seeking the victory of individualism over collectivism, we will be able to change nameplates on the doors in Congress and rescue our government from its captors. In doing so, we also will be rescuing ourselves.
G. Edward Griffin
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
What are we to think of assassination as an official policy of governments?
The lead article this week reveals in minute detail how the US military tracks and kills people around the globe who are labeled as terrorists. It is difficult to read that without becoming fearful for our own safety, not because we are terrorists or enemies of America, but because just the opposite is true.
To love one’s country is not the same as loving the leaders of one’s country. It often has happened in history that the highest level of patriotism requires opposition to corruption within one’s government. The problem with that is obvious. Government leaders are the ones who get to say who the nation’s enemies are. If the leaders are corrupt, they will declare that anyone attempting to expose their corruption is an enemy of the state. In today’s world, that translates into being a domestic terrorist.
Many Americans approve assassination of terrorists because they accept the verdict handed down by the CIA and the President that the targets really are enemies of the American people who are plotting to bring death and destruction to Main street, USA.
Let us not challenge that assumption. Let us believe that all of those targets in the Middle East really were threats to citizens of the United States. Even so, a military strategy that kills nine innocent civilians for every one enemy combatant is not defensible. In a future global tribunal, it even might be called a war crime.
The thing that causes uneasiness over safety here at home is that corrupted leaders will go to any length to preserve their power. It is clear to me that we are rapidly approaching the point where anyone who opposes or even criticizes a political leader will be declared a domestic terrorist, the lap-dog media will repeat the accusation with solemnity, the uninformed public will accept it as truth, and the drones will be re-programmed for use right here at home.
That is where we are headed, but we don’t have to get there. If we can accelerate the growth of the present freedom movement and become a unifying force among all organizations seeking the victory of individualism over collectivism, we will be able to change nameplates on the doors in Congress and rescue our government from its captors. In doing so, we also will be rescuing ourselves.
G. Edward Griffin