09-02-2010, 04:09 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Quote:In a striking admission from the Obama Administration's top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United States may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.
Once upon a time in the distant past there was this very curious and archaic system whereby someone believed to be doing something inimical to the interests of the state (or at least against its stated laws), would be arrested by a policemen, taken to court where something called a trial took place. Advocates for the accuser (the state) and the defence (the accused) presented factual evidence and a Jury of 12 men and women weighed the evidence and came to a judgement whether the accused was guilty or innocent of the accusation -- and if found guilty then a court Judge handed down a punishment. This was especially the case in cases where the defendants life was in jeopardy if found guilty. I say especially because human jurisprudence over the centuries turned up so many cases where a trial was rigged, the evidence false and innocent lives taken needlessly that it was felt that a particularly strong test must be made to ensure the judgement must be correct in the future.
It was, undeniably, a very laborious process - and mistakes continued to happen from time to time. But, at least, it was the best that could be managed under the circumstances, namely the blind leading the blind.
It seems like sheer madness these days, I know. Thankfully such archaic ideas and processes slipped into misuse what seems like centuries ago now. Today we are fortunate to have a state that is never wrong, would certainly never do anything that was unlawful and who, bless them, have only our best interests in the forefront of their mind. So we can rest assured that they will only do right.
Ergo, justice is safe in their hands.
As are our wallets....
Yeah, 'Once Upon A Time....' like in a fairytale. Just think in a few years there will be young adults who don't remember anything of such 'old fashioned' and cumbersome methods of justice. A killer drone not only saves time, but saves the trouble of all of the above. Just one last thought.....from killing citizens outside the country without trial - or legal process of any kind - to the killing citizens INSIDE the country without trial - or legal process of any kind is a VERY small step - and as all on this Forum know has already been stepped over many 'O time [covertly]....and it is only a matter of months, IMO, before that say so openly! When I was young I used to want to live to be 100 or more. Now at 59 I sometimes wonder if I even want to bother reaching 60, the way things are going.......:bandit:
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass