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How to Survive America's Kill List

posted by martyb on Friday July 20 2018, @11:01PM   
from the sue-or-be-suet? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Rolling Stone:

When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution
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With Reprieve’s help, Kareem did what the system asks a law-abiding American citizen with a grievance to do. He sued, filing a complaint in district court in Washington, D.C., on March 30th, 2017, asking the U.S. government to take him off the Kill List, at least until he had a chance to challenge the evidence against him.

The case, still unresolved more than a year later, has awesome implications not just for Kareem but for all Americans – all people everywhere, for that matter.

It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11.

He needs to take the matter to Information Retrieval, but heaven help him if he doesn't get his receipt stamped first.

[Ed note: It's a long read, but provides extensive background on the US government's kill list development, implementation, and complications in trying to do anything about it.]

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Original Submission

• Simple Simple (Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 20 2018, @11:54PM (4 children)

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday July 20 2018, @11:54PM (#710164) Homepage

  Don't be on the record badmouthing or waiting to testify against Hillary Clinton.

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• First reptilian and female president? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @11:57PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @11:57PM (#710166)

  /not sarcasm

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• Re:Simple (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:04AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:04AM (#710172)

  Ho-hum. Just EF being stupid again.

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• Re:Simple (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:08AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:08AM (#710174)

  What are you talking about?
  
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• Re:Simple (Score: 5, Interesting) by bob_super on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:19AM

  by bob_super (1357) on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:19AM (#710177)

  Which part of "She lost, and people who don't like her control every single branch of the US government" has still not entered right-wing brains almost two years later ?

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