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: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:48AM (1 child)
Didn't kill anyone that you know of - yet. BTW - let us not forget that the KKK were Democrats. The R's have never embraced the KKK as part of the right. KKK isn't alt-right. Robert Byrd wasn't alt-right. The Clintons who admired Byrd aren't alt-right. The female Clinton who disparaged her black slaves at the Arkansas governor's mansion isn't alt-right.
How about Patty Hearst? Have we forgotten that she was tangled up in a terrorist organization that killed people? Oh - sorry - she's a rich bitch, whose daddy was able to twist arms, and twist facts, and have all charges dismissed.
Then, there is Bell Ayers, whose sins have all been cleansed.
I know that American's memories are generally pretty short. I was hoping that your memory might be a little longer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:13PM
You are correct that racism isn't the province of one party or the other. After Civil Rights, though, those Southern Democrats and KKK switched parties. The Republican party may not have openly embraced that, but they did lace their rhetoric with dog whistles to speak to those people.
Democrats are more Orwellian in their racism. They have trained everyone to disclaim racism while enacting policies that are racist. I saw someone recently encapsulate the approach as inverting "e pluribus, unum" to "ex uno, plures."
Washington DC delenda est.