Top 10 Problems with America Assassinating Americans

[Better Believe It]

Weekend Edition
February 5 - 7, 2010

Admiral Blair's Hit Teams
Top 10 Problems with America Assassinating Americans
By DAVID SWANSON

Dennis Blair, the director of U.S. national intelligence, told the House Intelligence Committee this week that the government has the right to kill Americans abroad.

Here are 10 problems with this:

1. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you cross a border.

2. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you engage in them frequently. Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

3. Killing people has nothing whatsoever to do with gathering so-called intelligence.

4. Even in this age in which senators and house members petition and write public letters to the president imploring him to obey laws, rather than introducing legislation, issuing subpoenas, holding impeachment hearings, or defunding agencies, the fact remains that Congress, above all, IS the government, and it is just not the place of the director of national thuggery to come in and dictate what the law will or will not be.

Read the other 6 problems at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson02052010.html

[stray cat]

1. can we also stop American terrorists from killing Americans?

[tekisui]

2. Probably not. Just like we will never stop all crime.

[Better Believe It]

4. Suspected or possible "American terrorists"? How would you end the crime of murder?

[HillbillyBob]

3. Defunding CIA and arresting their corps would be a very good start.

DEA and several other alphabet agencies as well as reel in all of Haliburton, Blackwater/Xe and the other murderous cancers release on us by the rpigs.

[Faryn Balyncd]

5. Because it is wrong.

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