Many Americans can’t believe their government would kill innocents in drone strikes. But hundreds of innocents were imprisoned in Guantanamo despite being interrogated first. Domestically, the Innocence Project estimates that there are tens of thousands of innocent citizens in U.S. prisons, despite a system that guarantees due process, a right to counsel, and a standard of “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” Then we send pilot-less airplanes to a foreign country, receive images taken from high altitudes, and a CIA employee decides whether to fire or not. And many Americans still can’t believe that their government would kill innocents in drone strikes. This is a moral failure — and a political one too.
Does the CIA Even Know Who Its Drones Are Killing? (via azspot)
Many Americans can’t believe their government would kill innocents in drone strikes.
No, I think they do know this. They don’t care. These drone strikes are targeting brown people. It’s okay to kill hundreds, even thousands of brown people, if there is a possibility that they get a “terrorist”; and there are many who think that all Arabs/Muslims (yes, they think the two are the same, and yes, they think Pakistanis and Afghanis are Arabs) are terrorists anyway. There is no innocents as far as they are concerned. Even babies are future terrorists.
Obama would know this better than any white president, that brown people are expendable.
(via azspot)
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