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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 Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:14PM (2 children)
It has much - very much - to do with Israel. Israel willingly became a US satellite, while much of the surrounding Arab world became Soviet clients. Almost all the world's borders today are an assemblage of Soviet vs US influence. Look to Eastern Europe - most of the old nationalities are meaningless, compared to US vs Soviet influence. We commonly talk about "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". Look at Korea. Don't forget about China. As intelligent as Chairman Mao and his staff were, they were still just tools in the hands of the Soviet. Everywhere in the world that communism has popped up marks a victory (however major or minor) of the Soviet over America.
Israel would probably be a power in it's own right, in the world of post-WW2. Having rejected communism, and sided with the US/UK, Israel assured their place as a regional power.
Damned near everything in the world geopolitical scene that has happened after WW2, right up until the mid-80's or so revolved around the US and the Soviet. The Islamic revolution in Iran? What on earth did you THINK motivated all the stupidity, starting with Operation Ajax? The US felt that it didn't have enough influence over Iran's legitimate government, so it installed a puppet - and the Soviet aided the ayatollahs who let the revolution.
Think outside the MSM box. Israel was an important tool in the Cold War, or an important ally, depending on your point of view.
(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:04PM
People in middle east and china have significantly different culture and to them those Communism vs Capitalism memes have totally different meaning. Those two notions are essentially part of western neo-religion based on cargo-cult level of understanding of economic science and fetishization of economic concepts, while middle eastern countries merely try to survive and to avoid getting meddled by those communocapitalist whackos. Although I'm from Russia myself I decided to abandon this religion too. And to me this entire conflict just looks like random violence now.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Sunday July 22 2018, @03:28AM
You have that backwards.
And now, we're both client states of Putin's Russian Federation.
You are still welcome on my lawn.