Few “terrorists” but hundreds of Pakistani civilians killed by US drones and nothing but silence

April 12, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

Is it possible for an American acting in “official” federal government capacity to commit the crime of murder against a foreigner ? Can the US federal government kill any foreigner it wants at any time as long as they just label them a “terrorist” without so much as ever offering even one scintilla of evidence that such a label is applied justly or correctly ?

I ask this because a Pakistani newspaper is reporting that only 10 of the 60 US military drone attacks in Pakistan over the past 3 years managed to hit any “Al Qaeda linked” target killing some 14 suspected “terrorists” while 687 civilians have also been killed in these attacks.

And not that it should matter since even “Al Qaeda suspects” should not be simply murdered but there is also another article from a Pakistani paper that says there is no credible evidence that “Al Qaeda” is even in Pakistan. No credible evidence? None has ever been needed for our federal government because “Al Qaeda” is just short hand for any swarthy Moooslim who doesn’t like US policy in the ME. What evidence is needed to establish the presence of this organization in any country when “Al Qaeda” is quite literally whatever an “anonymous source” from the US government says it is at any given point in time ?

Keep in mind, the US is not at war with Pakistan. What is the legal authority to simply launch drone bombs into a sovereign country and murder hundreds of civilians based upon nebulous “intelligence” ? Never mind that- what is the legal authority to murder “terrorist suspects” ? They are, after all, just “suspects”. Does the US federal government simply reserve a right to kill anyone it classifies as “suspects “?

What would you call it if a group of individuals launched an urban bombing campaign against those it simply declared to be not even “terrorists” but just “terrorist suspects” and in the process of killing these “suspects” also killed 10 times the number of civilians? Wouldn’t we be just in calling such a bombing campaign- one of terror ?

Now, we know that low ranking American foot soldiers with- at best- high school educations- are, on rare occasion, tried for murdering civilians and they get stiff sentences – sometimes even as much as 10 whole years for killing a “Hajji” and his family. But what about a US politician or bureaucrat who are behind decisions that kill dozens of civilians in the blink of an eye ? What, short of sending a drone to kill a cheating foreign born spouse in their Beltway suburban bedroom community home, would it take for them to be considered as having committed murder against a foreigner ?

More generally, I ask, what does it take for a federal politician or bureaucrat to get prosecuted for any crime against a foreigner ? Dick Cheney all but admitted to approving blatantly illegally acts of torture on dozens of foreigners- and did so publicly and brazenly. Nothing. Silence on all fronts.

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