JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S SOUTH AMERICAN DEATH SQUAD-STYLE JUSTICE BY DRONE KILLS AMERICAN CITIZEN ANWAR AL-AWLAKI – AMERICA PLAYS GOD – OBAMA ‘S SHAME

 

 

 

 

JOHN CHUCKMAN

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL

This is just sick.

And the BBC coverage of this story says that Obama personally approved this South American military junta style killing.

Some enlightened president.

None of us can possibly know just what this man actually did – beyond speaking against the unjust practices of America – but it does seem to me that the greater the threat an individual is understood to be, the greater the need for all conventional forces of law and intelligence to obtain his arrest through legal channels.

This behavior of America’s – and Israel’s, since American tactics were copied from Israel’s dirty practices – is a one way trip to nowhere: it is a giant step backward for human rights and democratic practices.

Very possibly we are looking at the dawn of a dark new age in which America plays God with the entire planet.

You either have a society – and that includes international society – which is ruled by laws or you do not.

This is as far as you can go from the rule of law.