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Any law has only been as good as the people enforcing it, and this has always been the case in every country and every time period. You are delusional if you th
by _1tem 1y ago
Any law has only been as good as the people enforcing it, and this has always been the case in every country and every time period. You are delusional if you think that a piece of paper (i.e the “Law”) has any power whatsoever. When has “your status as citizen” ever protected you? Only when the people in power like you. Remember when the Obama administration ordered a extrajudicial killing of an American citizen by drone strike?
- n4r9 1y agoAre you talking about Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw... Obama approved a policy of targeted killing, which killed an American bystander when targeting an Egyptian citizen. That's very different to "ordered an extra judicial killing".
- pjc50 1y agoThat's still very much ordering a mob hit, not a judicial process. The Egyptian citizen didn't get due process either. So much of this stuff comes from the war on terror. It's all extended Guantanamo. The movie creation of a category of bad guys so bad that they can't be afforded court process and instead are murdered on the basis of secret "evidence".
- n4r9 1y agoTotally. Obama authorising drone strikes was abhorrent. I just didn't like myflash13 downplaying the significance of Trump's actions by comparing them to a falsity. Especially when Trump himself bragged about the extrajudicial killings of a US activist on US soil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_an...).