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Obama’s Assassination Program Could Be Used on American Peace and Environmental Activists Labeled as Terrorists
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By Grant Lawrence
Recently the FBI raided Peace Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. The search warrants indicate that they were looking for connections between the activists and groups in Columbia and the Middle East.
One of those activists being investigated, Jess Sundin a longtime antiwar activist in Minneapolis, had this to say about the government’s investigation.
…So, one of the things we’re doing is trying to call attention to what’s happened and really make it clear to people that we have done nothing wrong. There is no basis to the claim that we’ve in any way given support to terrorist organizations. But in fact, we are being—we are being—there is attention on us because of our work in the antiwar movement, and in particular, our perspective of solidarity with people in the countries where the US war and militarism are happening. We, following up on these demonstrations, are going to be pulling together a network of people from many of these organizations that have expressed their concern. Folks who want to get tied into that can find us through the Anti-War Committee website, which is very outdated. We’re doing our best to get it up. Of course, as we explained, all of our computers were seized. So we’re doing a lot of catch up, trying to get ourselves organized…..(source: democracy now)
Many years ago, I predicted that the so called “War on Terror” would be used as an excuse to arrest Peace Activists and Environmentalists in an attempt to stop their activities and to put fear into a certain segment of the American population.
But what I didn’t know then was that harmless Peace Activists and Environmentalists, working for the good of humanity, could be assassinated as well as arrested.
President Obama’s assassination program is being used to target US citizens believed to be involved in terrorism.
….The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets…
…Civil liberties groups sued the U.S. government on behalf of Aulaqi’s father, arguing that the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command’s placement of Aulaqi on a capture-or-kill list of suspected terrorists – outside a war zone and absent an imminent threat – amounted to an extrajudicial execution order against a U.S. citizen. They asked a U.S. district court in Washington to block the targeting….(source: washington post)
Today we see Anti-War activists and others being accused of terrorism and could face years of prison under the Patriot Act with no representation and no trial.
So it is not too much of a stretch to think that the government’s assassination program that is now targeting American citizens could also be used to target American Peace Activists and Environmentalists labeled as terrorists.
You might think I am completely wrong on this. But I was right about the labeling of Anti-War Activists and Environmentalists as “Home Grown Terrorists.”
The way things are going there may be a camp in some of our futures.
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