Friday 15 March 2013 – ‘Where is the evidence my son was a terrorist?’
Mohamed Sakr was stripped of his British citizenship for alleged Islamist activity and killed in a drone strike. His parents tell Chris Woods they have yet to be shown any proof of his guilt.
You get extradited back to the US. Or you get killed abroad in a drone strike. Being stripped of your citizenship was merely a way of absolving your government of your murder. As a man or woman without a country, you don’t exist in the eyes of nation-states, and thus you can be murdered by any government and no other government will raise an eyebrow.
The United Nations has raised another challenge to Obama’s drone policy in Pakistan, saying that it continues to kill innocent civilians because operators have difficulty discerning civilians apart from terrorists.
For drone assassinations lacking a fair trial, America doesn’t even need to silently strip the citizenship of the so-called “tax cheats”, “snot pukes”, “traitors”, “unpatriotic”, “pieces of crap” people who want to live normal lives outside of US jurisdiction. These are all titles rewarded to individuals who choose not to be American citizens for whatever reason. Most of these, I collected from just one single article talking about Saverin. Did I remember to include the “terrorist” label? Notice that in all three articles, none of the accusations are supported with any evidence to justify their careless usage.
It appears that no proof of guilt is needed to justify the assassination of anyone given such a fancy title. They are, after all, “snot pukes”!
If it says anything at all, your once-government lies and says that you were a high profile terrorist.
You are now a confirmed kill.
I wish they would strip my citizenship, I could save $450 and skip over filling out an 8854 form which asks for the diameters of my critical body orifices
Lindsay Graham says the drone kills are at a total of 4600. I think that two or three of these were US citizens. That means that you are at least 1500 times more likely to be killed by a drone if you are not a US citizen than if you are one. At least for now.
According to the Salon article below, only 1128 “civilians” have been killed by US drones–these are acceptable collateral damage in the war on terrorism. So you are four times more likely to be killed by a drone if you are a “terrorist” than if you just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. At least for now.
According to Eric Holder, if you are waging war against the United States, you may be killed by a drone. Now, I wonder if the tax War of 2012 counts? Anyways, my house is still here. At least for now.
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/21/lindsey_graham_puts_drone_deaths_at_4700/
signed, your fellow snot puke
If you are from Virginia, the ACLU would like you to sign this petition against drones:
Help Put A Stop To Warrantless Drones Spying On Americans
Just that much more incentive to never leave China. No extraditions and if the US dared to fly a drone into the airspace here it would basically spark WW3.
As CBC correspondent Neil Macdonald mentioned in a column a while back, there is an aging Cuban refugee walking the streets of Miami who the Cuban government claims planted a bomb that blew up a Cuban airliner in the 1970s, killing about 75 people. I understand that Cuba has asked for his extradition, which of course the US refuses. Speculation: how would the US like it if the Cuban government acquired a few drones and launched them into Miami, maybe killing the person they consider a terrorist and probably a few collateral-damage bystanders on the street? Oh no, the US is exceptional and only the US can play at those games. So far.
Re use of surveillance drones in the US potentially and probably actually against US citizens and residents of the US, see that noted leftie-radical publication National Geographic, March 2013 article starting on page 122.
If anyone isn’t familiar with Luis Posada Carriles (very close ties to the CIA) who Schubert mentioned above, here’s one link …
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/
Have you ever seen a drone flying overhead? My personal opinion is that a lot of these terrorist characters are invented to keep the people focused on terrorism and the need to speed more and more money. If you disengage yourself from the media, you’ll start to see through the farce. Whatever happened to Bin Laden’s body? Sounds more like a Hollywood script to me. It’s just sad those SEALS were shot down a few days later. I guess they knew too much.