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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 HiThere on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:09PM (1 child)
What you, and most other people, don't seem to understand is that the Democratic Party (like the others) is a privately owned organization. I don't think they broke any laws in cheating to select Hillary. It was vile and unethical, but I don't *think* it was illegal.
That said, it was pretty clear to me from the start that Bernie was the "designated loser" in the competition. And he seemed to be aware of it, and be willing to accept it in order to get his message out. But IIUC the DNC could have just appointed Hillary as their candidate, and not even bothered with a primary...but the cost in voter commitment would be too high.
That said, they did break their own rules to get Hillary to win the nomination.
The Republicans weren't much better, but they were blindsided by Trump. So we got someone even worse than the machine candidate. Whoopee!
Perhaps you can tell I'm a bit disgusted with all the political parties. Last time there wasn't a single candidate in any of the four parties on my ballot I thought better than the wino passed out on the corner.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pav on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:40PM
Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, the head of the DNC who presided over Hillary's cheating against Bernie has also since cheated against Tim Canova (her primary opponent), and there was definitely blatant illegality in that race - basically lying about the result, then ballot destruction to hide this fact. There was an interesting video [youtube.com] released just hours ago of a three-way interview with Tim about the situation, with a citizen activist software developer called Melissa Schwartz talking about her source software which allows citizens to become involved in exit polls to catch stuff like this early.
BTW, in the lawsuit against the DNC the first judge to hear the case specifically addressed the legality of cheating, and made very clear he considered the argument that the DNC could choose who they liked (made by the defence) to be bogus... but very strangely he threw it out anyway on juristictional issues, though since then the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has found sufficient jurisdiction to continue.