Terrorism from the US
These are some of the parameters that the U.S. Department of Justice utilizes to justify its governmental murders. The main focus is based on three conditions:
1. A high U.S. federal government official, with access to pertinent information, decides that the individual in question represents an imminent threat of a violent attack against the country.
2. The capture of this individual is not viable, and the U.S. government continues to monitor the situation to decide whether this will change.
3. The operation will take place in accordance with the applicable law on warfare.
This practice is unjustifiable and goes against the principles of the people who want peace for the entire world. The rule of law ceases to have effect. It cannot be valid to use the perception of a heartless bureaucrat concerning the right of the U.S. government to define its enemies at will. It deals with something immoral, illegal under international law, and it is the epitome of the monstrous disdain with which some people in the U.S. contemplate the rest of humanity.
By permitting U.S. presidents to get away with ordering assassinations, the citizens of that country confirm that they can continue on this path. By remaining silent when they see evil, without demanding that these practices cease, they are just as guilty as those who commit such atrocities.
George W. Bush declared that the government had the right to kidnap, torture and detain people in prison forever without a trial, even if they are American citizens. The day that the U.S. decided to not prosecute Bush, then-Vice President Dick Cheney and his criminal cohorts for their crimes was the day that this country sold its spirit to the devil.
President Barack Obama continues along the same line as these criminals. Since the country did not react in horror when they should have, Obama not only persists in some of these crimes but has also added even more. His government has gone even further by confirming that now the president decides himself who lives and who dies.
Innocent lives are continually cut short by Predator drones. Nobody knows the exact number of people, as the U.S. government remains quiet with regard to this fact. Still worse is the number of innocents who were knowingly identified as targets due to incompetence, rancor and other horrible motives. Once again, the government remains quiet on the topic, while the majority of U.S. citizens gladly remain ignorant. The U.S. has become the home of paranoiacs and the land where absolute liberty is only for those who can pay for it.
There exists an alarming tendency of using attack drones and other unmanned aerial combat vehicles in offensive operations, including as a means to assassinate innocent civilians. Employing these military devices infringes on the sovereignty of other nations and constitutes a severe violation of international humanitarian law.
For example, between June 2004 and December 2012, U.S. unmanned aerial combat vehicles killed more than 3,300 people in Pakistan, including 180 children. The alleged efficiency derived from using remote controlled devices is, according to media reports, very low, at a ratio of 1 to 50. This means that, in order to succeed in killing one "terrorist," 50 innocents who are not terrorists will be killed. And who determines if the "terrorist" died or not? The drones cannot distinguish between the face of the supposed terrorist and that of an innocent person.
Only in the U.S. do some 8,500 drones exist. Besides the assassination of the civil population together with the "terrorists," the Pentagon also plans to use combat drones of great size to undertake strategic nuclear attacks. This is the size of the threat: The authentic terrorists are located in Washington.
1. A high U.S. federal government official, with access to pertinent information, decides that the individual in question represents an imminent threat of a violent attack against the country.
2. The capture of this individual is not viable, and the U.S. government continues to monitor the situation to decide whether this will change.
3. The operation will take place in accordance with the applicable law on warfare.
This practice is unjustifiable and goes against the principles of the people who want peace for the entire world. The rule of law ceases to have effect. It cannot be valid to use the perception of a heartless bureaucrat concerning the right of the U.S. government to define its enemies at will. It deals with something immoral, illegal under international law, and it is the epitome of the monstrous disdain with which some people in the U.S. contemplate the rest of humanity.
By permitting U.S. presidents to get away with ordering assassinations, the citizens of that country confirm that they can continue on this path. By remaining silent when they see evil, without demanding that these practices cease, they are just as guilty as those who commit such atrocities.
George W. Bush declared that the government had the right to kidnap, torture and detain people in prison forever without a trial, even if they are American citizens. The day that the U.S. decided to not prosecute Bush, then-Vice President Dick Cheney and his criminal cohorts for their crimes was the day that this country sold its spirit to the devil.
President Barack Obama continues along the same line as these criminals. Since the country did not react in horror when they should have, Obama not only persists in some of these crimes but has also added even more. His government has gone even further by confirming that now the president decides himself who lives and who dies.
Innocent lives are continually cut short by Predator drones. Nobody knows the exact number of people, as the U.S. government remains quiet with regard to this fact. Still worse is the number of innocents who were knowingly identified as targets due to incompetence, rancor and other horrible motives. Once again, the government remains quiet on the topic, while the majority of U.S. citizens gladly remain ignorant. The U.S. has become the home of paranoiacs and the land where absolute liberty is only for those who can pay for it.
There exists an alarming tendency of using attack drones and other unmanned aerial combat vehicles in offensive operations, including as a means to assassinate innocent civilians. Employing these military devices infringes on the sovereignty of other nations and constitutes a severe violation of international humanitarian law.
For example, between June 2004 and December 2012, U.S. unmanned aerial combat vehicles killed more than 3,300 people in Pakistan, including 180 children. The alleged efficiency derived from using remote controlled devices is, according to media reports, very low, at a ratio of 1 to 50. This means that, in order to succeed in killing one "terrorist," 50 innocents who are not terrorists will be killed. And who determines if the "terrorist" died or not? The drones cannot distinguish between the face of the supposed terrorist and that of an innocent person.
Only in the U.S. do some 8,500 drones exist. Besides the assassination of the civil population together with the "terrorists," the Pentagon also plans to use combat drones of great size to undertake strategic nuclear attacks. This is the size of the threat: The authentic terrorists are located in Washington.