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how am I to know what sex you are? it's not we're personally acquainted.
she? that's ing low man
how am I to know what sex you are? it's not we're personally acquainted.
touche
I do find it funny that people peg me as both conservative and liberal
lol peg
my bad, vy. no insult was intended.
it's all good man ... it's not like you called me a lib or checked out my driveway
it's understandable. you tend to obfuscate your own views.
female participation in this forum is what is actually low.
Little wonder.
I'm advocating for such check to be in place (at the very least). I doubt it would pass cons utional munster, but it adds a degree of legitimacy if it does.
I'm well aware the do ent expressly rules such checks out, that's why I'm saying I can't agree with that.
thanks for the link
Props to the patriotic protestors right now at the bs CIA Confirmation hearing
Love the spin that the msm and sellout Feinstein is giving lol
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
lol protester with an actual sock puppet.
Props to the patriotic protestors right now at the bs CIA Confirmation hearing
Love the spin that the msm and sellout Feinstein is giving lol
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
Props to these real Patriots for interrupting lies to speak out for truth
Protesters Shutdown War Criminal John Brennan's Opening Statement At CIA Dir Nominee Hearing
Last edited by SA210; 02-07-2013 at 09:42 PM.
lol sock puppet
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A boy named "Adam"
"If the government is going to be firing Predator missiles at American citizens, surely the American public has a right to know who's being targeted, and why."
-- Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union
Largely thanks to a complicit corporate-state news media, the story of a U.S. teenager executed without trial by the government has largely gone under the radar.
The teen -- who we will temporarily refer to as "Adam" -- was born on August 26, 1995 at approximately 1:16 pm in Denver, Colorado. Like many Americans, Adam came to enjoy watching movies, playing football, computer games, and swimming.
Following the attacks of 9/11, the father of Adam -- also a U.S. citizen -- was invited to a luncheon at the Pentagon designed to encourage religious tolerance.
In late 2002, Adam and his father moved to Britain, and then Yemen in 2004.
In 2008, U.S. intelligence agencies made the claim that the father of Adam had been a "spiritual counselor" for some of the 9/11 hijackers and had also assisted in various terror plots. The following year, Adam's father went into hiding, but this wouldn't deter his son from eventually setting off to try and find him.
Around 6:30 am on September 4th, 2011, Adam quietly slipped away from his family home in Sana, Yemen, leaving behind a note for his mother. "I am sorry for leaving in this kind of way," he wrote. "Forgive me. I miss my father and want to see if I can go and talk to him."
Yet as it turned out, Adam would never get a chance to talk to his father. That's because on the 30th of September, Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama authorized two U.S. predator drones to kill the man. For this U.S. citizen, there would be no trial, no jury - just a mere accusation of guilt by faceless officials and a subsequent execution.
Shortly after news of his father's death surfaced, Adam, his 17-year-old cousin with whom he had been staying, and a few other friends set up a barbeque and celebrated their last night together. Adam called his mother and planned to return home the next day, a promise to be broken against his best intentions. He would never see her again.
As the teens chatted and ate dinner, brave aerial drones quietly sailed through Yemen's clear October skies, watching intently from above with powerful robotic eyes and patiently awaiting further orders. Eventually, such orders came and, with the press of a button, missiles shattered the night's calm like a stone to glass and screamed through the air before plowing into the teens without warning and engulfing them in a suffocating inferno which neither escaped from alive.
Desperate to justify their actions, the U.S. government initially claimed Adam had been in the "wrong place at the wrong time" and that the intended target of the drones was a "senior al-Qaeda operative" named Ibrahim al-Banna, a man who later turned up alive and well.
Moreover, news media reports at the time went so far as to suggest that Adam was not a teenager, but a grown man with ties to al-Qaeda, an utterly baseless claim, but not one without a purpose. Referring to Adam as "military-age" at the time of death meant that by international protocols he would therefore be considered a legitimate target.
Still, even supposing one looks beyond the blatant violation of international protocols, what is to be said of those in a domestic sense? What kind of precedent is being established when U.S. citizens can be targeted for assassination by their government without trial? If it can happen to Adam and his father, who might be next? Why aren't these questions being asked?
Perhaps these questions aren't being asked because Adam's name is actually Abdulrahman, and when a foreign-sounding name like his is thrown across American news media outlets, nobody really seems all too concerned by it. Yet, if the headlines had in fact read "Adam" instead of "Abdulrahman", how differently would this have played out?
The establishment of such a dangerous precedent remains entirely dependent on continued complacency by the public. If the government can get away with killing U.S. citizens without trial overseas, how long will it be until the killings come home?
In May 2012, the Federal Aviation Administration began streamlining the licensing process for public agencies to "safely" fly drones, with law enforcement a prime target.
During that same month, The Huffington Post reported on the case of Rodney Brossart, the first U.S. citizen to be arrested using an unmanned drone.
Where was Rodney arrested? Pakistan? Yemen? Try North Dakota.
Make no mistake: the drones are coming, and the death of "Adam" and his father may only be the beginning.
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"I really feel disappointed that this crime is going to be forgotten. I think the American people ought to know what really happened and how the power of their government is being abused by this Administration. Americans should start asking why a boy was targeted for killing. In addition to my grandson's killing, the missile killed my brother's grandson, who was a 17-year-old kid, who was not an American citizen but is a human being, killed in cold blood. I cannot comprehend how my teenage grandson was killed by a fire missile, how nothing was left of him except small pieces of flesh. Why? Is America safer now that a boy was killed? ... I urge the American people to bring the killers to justice. I urge them to expose the hypocrisy of the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate. To some, he may be that. To me and my family, he is nothing more than a child killer."-- Nasser al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman's grandfather
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Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary and a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, was asked in October 2012 about the death of Abdulrahman, to which he smugly replied that the teen should have had a "far more responsible father".
Where is the outrage?
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See also:
Murder Made Easy - Two different studies offer new insight into the psychology behind killing, but what does it mean for the future of aerial drone warfare?
The United States of Predator Drones- From Afghanistan to Yemen, from Yemen to Mexico, from Mexico to your back yard, drone use has drastically expanded and shows no signs of slowing down
A brief history of George W. Obama - Has the same U.S. President been in office for the last 11 years? The following timeline covers key events between 2001-2012
Posted 18th October 2012 by Jonathan Reynolds
Last edited by SA210; 02-07-2013 at 10:26 PM.
SA210, why do you think a 17 year old was targeted by his own country?
I'm confused. Which one is Adam?
Cenk, doing another great job, taking apart Obama Administrations lies, piece by piece on the CIA confirmation hearing
"John Brennan denied at his Senate confirmation hearing as CIA director accusations that he played a central role in the agency's torture of suspected terrorists, and suggested he was misled as a CIA senior official over the value of information obtained through waterboarding"*
John Brennan took questions on torture during his Senate hearing-- what did the man who did Obama's dirty work in the CIA have to say, and did he admit that waterboarding is torture? Cenk Uygur breaks it down and calls the presumptive new head of the CIA out.
TYT: Liar? Obama's CIA Nominee on Drones and Waterboarding
Things that don't make Blake upset: Targeted killing of American citizens without a trial
Things that make Blake upset: Illegal downloading!!!!! Rarr!!!
pissed off at theft? yes.
due process free state murder of US citizens? not so much.
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