I Just Want to SCREAM!
Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister. Glenn Greenwald, 01/30/2017
IN 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September, 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate – the once-again-beloved ACLU sued Obama to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued Obama again after the killing was carried out – another drone-killing carried out shortly thereafter was perhaps even more significant yet generated relatively little attention.
Two weeks after the killing of Awlaki, a separate CIA drone strike in Yemen killed his 16-year-old American-born son, Abdulrahman, along with the boy’s 17-year-old cousin and several other innocent Yemenis. The U.S. eventually claimed that the boy was not their target but merely “collateral damage.” Abdulrahman’s grief-stricken grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, urged the Washington Post “to visit a Facebook memorial page for Abdulrahman,” which explained: “Look at his pictures, his friends, and his hobbies His Facebook page shows a typical kid.”
Few events pulled the mask off Obama officials like this one. It highlighted how the Obama administration was ravaging Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries: just weeks after he won the Nobel Prize, Obama used cluster bombs that killed 35 Yemeni women and children. Even Obama-supporting liberal comedians mocked the Obama DOJ’s arguments for why it had the right to execute Americans with no charges: “Due Process Just Means There’s A Process That You Do,” snarked Stephen Colbert. And a firestorm erupted when former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs offered a sociopathic justification for killing the Colorado-born teenager, apparently blaming him for his own killing by saying he should have “had a more responsible father.”
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It's sad
and sickening as well.....
I want a Pony!
This is reprehensible. Congress and the courts - 2 legs
of the system of checks and balances (remember that myth?) - are either complicit or absent allowing Obama to get away with murder. Now it's Trump's turn at being a killer-for-hire.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
@duckpin
It was supposed to be Hillary's turn - she should have been able to kill these kids!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
The crimes
and war criminals of the Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama administrations still walk free and unfettered. It will be no different for this administration.
Fuck them all to hell.
Dear Dems: You lost the WH, Senate, House, dozens of governors, state level SOS and AG and about 1,000 state legislative seats. Maybe...you're doing something wrong.
The planning was done under the Obama admin.
Trump authorized it.
I wonder what Trump's public response is going to be (shades of JFK?). He may have been looking for some quick glory, but it blew up in his face.
How many secret operations were done under Obama that we do not know about? This secret assassination program, originally inspired by Cheney, was put on steroids and institutionalized by Obama.
@CB
This will continue until The People MAKE IT STOP! These psychopaths will not be crying, raging and mourning like the humans out here reading this, just planning better cover for their vicious and unforgivable crimes.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@CB How silly of us to notice
How silly of us to notice that it was an Obama plan that Trump carried out. We must be drifting to the dark side, young paduan. Obviously, if we were good people, we'd just blame Trump and forget all these pesky details.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I am boiling mad.
My post on Fakebook:
I have been certainly vocal denouncing the atricities committed by Al Qaedah, Daesh and other headchopping subhuman pig testicles, but this puts the US Special Forces and their shills in the media and government on exactly the same level. The level of being pig vomit.
Once they are done with the daughter's of American Al Qaedah, who will be next? Will it be the little kids of any American who doesn't support the Trump (Clinton, whoever is the headmaster in Washington) regime? Like maybe someone who supports the Palestinian cause, or the northern Syrians, or maybe Maduro and Evo Morales? After all, in Bolivia, we lost sixty people in CIA sponsored massacres ten years ago, including little children. The perpetrators, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and Efrain Bezrain are sitting filthy rich in their USA mansions with asylum.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170130-us-soldiers-shoot-and-kill-8-...
From the Light House.
@Alex Ocana Breaks my heart. That's
Breaks my heart. That's where I am today. I seem to alternate between sadness and rage.
On the up side, no, they're not going to come after the kids of Americans who disagree with Trump. Not yet. They're using us to destabilize his administration/regime, whatever. Once they're done with that, we'll settle in comfortably with President Pence and they'll start coming after us then.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Complicit? Neeexxxtttt. . .
I ant to add that I see all sorts of blaming an individual (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump) but these are just the monster heads for the whole fucked up system tens of millions support by reading Breithbart et al, voting for monsters named Trump or Clinton, and supporting the representatives in Congress who kiss the corporations sorry assholes. Now, I realize that tens of millions of Americans don't support this insanity, but nevertheless the majority of Americans either support or are complicit. Your country. Your fault.
Beware! If you don't do something, next its going to be your kids.
From the Light House.
@Alex Ocana Thanks, Alex. I keep
Thanks, Alex. I keep pushing this same message, but a hopeless, demoralized people has been given an easy target for their anger. A Big Bad Evil Individual to fight against. Because that worked so well when we did it with Bush. Got rid of him, boysirreehowdy, and his little dog too. Majorities of opposition party in both houses of Congress. First Black Democratic President. Whee-hoo! Back to the path of righteousness, right?
As for "our country, our fault," well, if you're blaming us for not rising up in armed revolution against the US military/surveillance complex, sure. I'll take that blame. But if you're talking about people's voting habits, those haven't mattered a damn since 1994 at the latest. It's been more than twenty years with both parties corrupt and complicit, the mass media in collusion, the legal system bereft of integrity, third parties structurally disadvantaged, legal obstacles to getting on the ballot, a suffocating blackout from the corrupt media--there's nowhere to work through. And even when we manage to make it through with, at least, a reasonable excuse for a candidate, we're confronted with unacknowledged, unpunished, multi-state election fraud and voter suppression. We're left with two forms of resistance to choose from: violent uprising, and something as yet undefined which would require a quantum leap in our political creativity. In order to come up with that second thing, we need to deal with a level of infiltration and subversion that makes the 60s and 70s in this country look like a cakewalk (it doesn't help that we now do so much organizing online, which might as well have been designed for the purposes of infiltration).
That's why I keep saying we need to get together in small groups of people that we trust, and strategize. But telling people they need to put time and effort into finding an answer (that may not even exist) to an enormous and intimidating systemic evil is not going to sell as well as telling people that they need to go out into the streets and wave signs at the Evil Bad Man that Everybody Hates. Because that's inspiring, and when they destabilize Trump's administration (which will work because the establishment actually wants it to), they will feel very inspired. And will no doubt try the same thing again with President Pence, but that won't go so well. Because the truly powerful in this country would be fine with Pence, almost as fine as they would be with Hillary.
Naturally, in all this, the evil system we're all living in will grind along, kind of like the planet-killer from Star Trek's The Doomsday Machine. Basically just keeps destroying planets and refueling itself on the rubble.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I wonder how much worse things can get?
I suppose pulling out the popcorn and watching the final purification might be a suitable response. I rather prefer the disruption of civil resistance though.
From the Light House.
We live in a sick, sick country.
I want out.
As coloradoblue said, fuck them all to hell.
@Christine.MI
There is no out, no anywhere safely away from the American madness - the US PTB have tentacles, governmental control and American military in most countries and are madly planning to nuke the others.
The Greeds are planning to run to New Zealand and, I suppose, wait On The Beach sipping Martinis for Super-Jesus/Super-Technology to swoop and save them, only them, at the last instant... these are not sane people working to destroy civilization and the global life support system in order to have more of what's already far too much for them to spend - and which will become worthless even prior to being fully achieved, as money is only an agreed-upon medium of exchange within any society and meaningless once there's no more society or nothing to exchange it for on either side of the supply/demand cycle. Or when the power goes out and the off-shored data-dots slide into oblivion - as various shorelines, coastal cities and a number of islands will under the faster-than-anticipated rise of the oceans.
Only The People, united for life on the planet and for democracy, can stop this.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I can't quite decide what sickens me more
Is it the act itself or the sudden hypocrisy from the "democratic base". It was probably over at DKOS, not sure, that I read an "Oh, think of the children..." hand-wringing article about this latest atrocity and all I could do is shake my head.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard