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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDesmond Tutu Blasts US Drones: American or Not, All Victims Are Human
Desmond Tutu Blasts US Drones: American or Not, All Victims Are Human
Tutu: 'Does the US really want to tell those of us in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value as yours?'
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
In a letter to the New York Times published Wednesday, South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu challenged the hypocrisy of the US and its citizens for accepting a killer drone program when it pertains to foreign suspects while demanding judicial review when those targets are American citizens.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/14-3
His letter
I am deeply, deeply disturbed at the suggestion in A Court to Vet Kill Lists (news analysis, front page, Feb. 9) that possible judicial review of President Obamas decisions to approve the targeted killing of suspected terrorists might be limited to the killings of American citizens.
Do the United States and its people really want to tell those of us who live in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value as yours? That President Obama can sign off on a decision to kill us with less worry about judicial scrutiny than if the target is an American? Would your Supreme Court really want to tell humankind that we, like the slave Dred Scott in the 19th century, are not as human as you are? I cannot believe it.
I used to say of apartheid that it dehumanized its perpetrators as much as, if not more than, its victims. Your response as a society to Osama bin Laden and his followers threatens to undermine your moral standards and your humanity.
DESMOND M. TUTU
Aboard MV Explorer, near Hong Kong Feb. 11, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/opinion/drones-kill-lists-and-machiavelli.html?_r=0
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Desmond Tutu Blasts US Drones: American or Not, All Victims Are Human (Original Post)
Catherina
Feb 2013
OP
10 commandments, war crimes prohibitions & general morality don't apply to US presidents, Desmond nt
msongs
Feb 2013
#1
The Bishop is "unserious", not "sensible", and/or just hates the President
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#2
msongs
(67,420 posts)1. 10 commandments, war crimes prohibitions & general morality don't apply to US presidents, Desmond nt
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)2. The Bishop is "unserious", not "sensible", and/or just hates the President
MadHound
(34,179 posts)3. Thank you Desmond,
Hopefully somebody in the administration listens to you, they certainly aren't listening to us.
Redfairen
(1,276 posts)4. k/r*