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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) by jmorris on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:43AM (4 children)
Little is certain in war or international affairs. He could surrender somewhere and that country decide to hold him. Hell, he might decide he wants that since the usual reason is we have the death penalty and counties that don't tend not to extradite to ones that do in cases where capital punishment is a likely sentence. His claim of citizenship could fail to pass muster and he could thus end up in Gitmo. And so on.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Saturday July 21 2018, @08:04AM (3 children)
Ask Congress. Are we at war?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 21 2018, @07:18PM (2 children)
For legal purposes, no. For practical purposes, yes. We're at war but Congress has preferred to dodge the blame for declaring wars for some time now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:08PM
all is fair, right? So do you agree that the victims of 9/11 were valid targets?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Sunday July 22 2018, @04:26AM
Then for legal purposes our solders are committing murder.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek