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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian: I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)we tried to keep count of all the #2 men they supposedly were aiming at after they had to try to explain why they had just killed 20 or more members of a family, again.
When the government is not at war, but is roaming around the world killing people, they have an obigation to explain who they killed and WHY. #2 Man! What is that? How are citizens to know whether this was justified or not? How are they to know that these killings in THEIR name, which generally involve the killing of so many innocents, are justified at all??
In a civilized society it SHOULD take a whole lot of proof presented, publicly, in order to justify the killing of human beings.
Do you know what crimes these #2 Men have committed, or do you think we as citizens should just 'trust' our government that all this killing of men, women and children is in OUR best interests?
Sorry, we live in a Democracy and refusing to demand accountability for the most important decisions a government can make, the killing of other human beings, is not acceptable.
We want names, evidence of crimes and proof that there was no way to arrest and take into custody anyone who actually was committing some crime or other. That there was such a huge threat to this country, and that it was imminent that they had no choice.
When will we have killed enough people in order for us to feel 'safe'? It's been 12 years of killing and maiming and torturing and apparently all that killing has only placed in MORE, not LESS danger according to Diane Feinstein.
As one State Dept official said 'we can't kill our way to safety'. So if we're not killing our to SAFETY then what ARE we doing?