06 June, 2012

The Death List

A couple of years ago I described the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen whom President Obama had decided to kill. He was indeed killed, as I predicted, by an American drone.

Encouraged by this, Obama has created a system. Called The Death List, although not, I fancy, by him, it is brought before him on a regular basis and he decides who lives and who dies. If your name is ticked the stealth drone will come, maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will come, silent and undetected, and destroy you, and of course anyone who is anywhere near you: your children, your friends, perhaps a whole village of innocents.

I know there is a war on terror, but I am just wondering how comfortable you feel about this? I don't feel comfortable at all.

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