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Kill the Kill List
- Posted to CODEPINK: Women for Peace
To: Tell President Obama to Ground the Lethal Drones and Kill the Kill List
A recent New York Times article revealed horrifying details about President Obama’s drone attacks. The once a constitutional lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner has now taken on the role of White House executioner, overseeing the regular top secret Tuesday counterterrorism meeting to designate...
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Drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) have become the signature weapons of the Obama administration's air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The President has recently begun overseeing a weekly meeting with his security officials in the White House to create a Kill List of supposed terrorists for the drones to target. However, these lethal weapons of war often miss their mar, resulting in the deaths of many innocent people, including children. Since the inception of this covert program, as many as 3,000 people, including hundreds of noncombatants and even American citizens, have been killed.
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it's more important to CALL your congressperson, then sign a not-as-effective petition...
I hate these petitions, because it often is used as a fundraising tool for the sponsoring organization, and prevents folks from taking more effective action, making them feel they've DONE SOMETHING, when in fact, signatures count very little...So it co-opts real action for real change...Please always encourage folks to call or write a letter or e-mail their congress people, which counts more, and to stand with folks like Occupy Atlanta, WAND, and Code Pink...But THIS one, I LIKE...even with the other caveats...
As much as the show "Covert Affairs" appears to be paid for by the CIA to get new recruits, just as 'White Collar" is probably paid for by the FBI, and "Fringe" by the FBI and DHS, they DID show a drone strike launched with faulty info that killed only innocent people, and not the intended targets....
I just participated in a clay-bone-making event. These bones will be fired, taken to the Mall in D.C. and then to particular congresspersons' offices. We must get them to stop this.
This is not what democracy looks like. It is not constitutional. It is another crime against humanity.
How ironic, or is it? that this is one of the hallmarks of the Obama Administration? Another case of compartmentalization? How can one speak so eloquently of peace and what's right, and then authorize this random, cruel method of killing? And how long can this nation justify the use of the armed forces to "waste" individuals, often heads of state--even if the U.S. doesn't agree with the policy of a given leader, have we the right to "take them out?" Especially when we've often been...
…How ironic, or is it? that this is one of the hallmarks of the Obama Administration? Another case of compartmentalization? How can one speak so eloquently of peace and what's right, and then authorize this random, cruel method of killing? And how long can this nation justify the use of the armed forces to "waste" individuals, often heads of state--even if the U.S. doesn't agree with the policy of a given leader, have we the right to "take them out?" Especially when we've often been instrumental in "getting them in?" I mean really. These are rhetorical questions, you realize. It's too crazy.
Justice by assignation using drones is inhumane. Justice thru the rule of law, trials, etc. is what is humane.
Thanks for your continued leadership.
Drones are as unacceptable as land mines and cluster bombs.
We may be the world's , pst aggressive and war-like nation.
Save the innocent. End this horrific practice.