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In reply to the discussion: If you're OK with revelations of NSA snooping, you're part of the problem [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)trials or convictions and that's okay now? We should just trust the CIA and our Government without question when they assassinate people whose names we don't even know, let alone what they are supposed to have done?
If there is a legal basis for the Death Penalty, in Democracies governments don't generally just kill people without informing the people why they got to that phase of our judicial system, (yes we still have one believe it or not) without the public learning what that basis is.
If Congress is overseeing the assassinations, that should be public information. I have never heard of Representatives of the People, which is what Congress is supposed to be, keeping something as important as the taking of a life, secret.
We know that large numbers of children are dying in these attacks. Can someone explain why we are killing children? I don't feel any safer when a child is murdered, in fact I feel less safe. And I don't feel very confident in any Government that kills people in secret and just tells the people 'trust us'.
We have gone further now than even Bush dared to go. Killing US citizens without any evidence as to why they deserved the DP.
And what possible legal basis is there in a democracy for administering the DP without charges, without trial and without even any evidence of a crime being presented to the people in whose name these killings are being executed?