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

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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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:04PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:04PM (#710374) Journal

    You are right, the government doesn't represent American interests anymore. They represent the global power elite. They have more in common with bankers in Brunei than they do with the people in Iowa who pay their salaries.

    The tree of liberty will be watered, from the rumblings coming out of nearly every corner of civilization, but while that works itself out into the open, it is worth planning for the next iteration of human self-governance.

    I say we owe it to ourselves and posterity to blue-sky it. Put it all down on paper and then do further passes to figure out implementation.

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    Washington DC delenda est.
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