This video from the American Civil Liberties Union condemns the U.S. government practice of issuing death sentences without due process as part of its targeted killing policy. “Targeted Killing” is being released to coincide with the filing today of an unprecedented lawsuit by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenging the government’s asserted authority to use lethal force against U.S. citizens located far from any battlefield without judicial process, and without disclosing the standards it uses to target individuals for death.
[drone attacks on “other” people r well accepted for the most part. i found it interesting that even in this video, the aclu is supporting targeted killing as long as it’s in a war zone. well, if u wanna get really legal about it, both iraq and afghanistan r illegal wars and we r not at war with pakistan. so drone attacks on iraqis, afghans and pakistanis r as reprehensible, illegal and immoral as on u.s. citizens. the whole idea of murder w/o judicial process (much like the dubai assassination of a hamas man by mossad) is unacceptable. what people don’t understand is that as we lower the legal stds of justice (and human decency), at some point it will affect all of us.]