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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.]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @02:35AM (3 children)
He has made sure that we can't hold a trial. There must be some reason. He could head over to the nearest US embassy, and I really doubt we'd just shoot him right there and then.
The issue of him being a US citizen seems pretty simple to resolve. We can take care of that. He is obviously not a very patriotic American. I doubt he files taxes with the IRS, as American citizens are required to do even when living elsewhere. We should just revoke his citizenship before we drone strike him.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 21 2018, @11:42AM
You don't need to surrender to US law enforcement to have a trial. People get tried in absentia all the time.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:19PM (1 child)
If there has been no trial then, under the constitution of the United States of America, there can be no execution.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:34AM
Obama was a constitutional scholar -- one of the best. And he thought that the legal for his Kill List checked out. 100%. We're using the same legal. But, different names on the list now. @Rosie [twitter.com], are you listening?