Speaking Thursday in the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Rep. Ron Paul (R – TX) slammed President Obama over his use of unmanned drones to conduct assassinations of suspects without due process, noting that even Nazis in the wake of World War 2 got trials.
“What did we do with the Nazis – war criminals – after World War II? They got trials.” Paul told the crowd during a campaign speech. Of Obama the Congressman said “he changed the rules. He says now it is proper for the president to decide to assassinate an American citizen without a trial, without charges, because he thanks they’re that dangerous.”
The American citizen in question was Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born cleric who the administration railed against for online sermons critical of US foreign policy in the region. Obama ordered Awlaki as well as his son, 16-year-old Abdel-Rahman Awlaki, assassinated in late September.
The Justice Department is said to have created a secret legal defense for exactly how President Obama can assassinate people, but they have insisted the defense is too secret to be released to the public.
I don't know what is wrong with American lawyers. They should be flocking to FATA to enlist victims and their families killed in Drone Strikes within Pakistan and filing lawsuits for damages against CIA and US Government.These drone killings of innocent civilans just to justify killing of handful of Al-Qaida members were Acts of War Crime as defined under under US and International Law.
Pakistani lawyers are too busy in civil disobedience when they should be doing the same in Pakistani courts and getting compensations for the victims ,their families and for themselves.
I've been saying that for years. If the family of each and every single victim slain with US weapons turned around and sued the weapons manufacturers, the warmongering would have ended up a long, long, long time ago. Picture 1.5 MILLION lawsuits from Iraq alone, eh? Now, that's what I call action!
World leaders have gone Nuts. Even the so called extrem Taliban had trials,
Yeah: Anybody asking for those secret justifications will become executed!
Paid actor Obama — Hired by 51% most wealthy
Obama is only doing what he was elected to do, for our voting majority is the 51% most aggressive and wealthy, the most plunder loving and brutally imperial bunch of voters the world has ever known.
So, the drones were created to kill on the spot anyone suspected of harming the “stability” of that owned by our darling voting majority, namely their long term investments. Especially their highest growth industry, their black gold that must sail by oil tanker through Iran’s Strait of Hormuz.
He wasn't elected by 51% most aggressive and wealthy. The guy actually suckered that many people. The rich vote with their pockets not the lever.
Progressives and social democrats being compared to Nazis! I know, I know, there are so many points they have in common, but to hear it from a US Prez candidate is immensely refreshing.
What a guy! Wow! Elect this guy already…c'mon, we need him to protect Israel and to attack Iran and lead us down the other side of perdition.