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thecheekylibertarian:

antigovernmentextremist:

statistsgonnastate:

I just love how so many are claiming ignorance of what happened to the Al-awlakis, when it wasn’t just all over Tumblr but even on their popular left-leaning comedy shows. There’s a difference between honestly not knowing that something happened, and willfully ignoring it because it doesn’t fit into your nice little Obama-loving box.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Colbert Report is a good’un.

Republicans do the same, but it hurts more when Obama does it. That’s because Obama is supposed to be the one to bring balance to Government Force. His punishment is loving, cuz the Republicans are Vaterland, while the Dems are Obama Mama.

(Source: sandandglass)

thecheekylibertarian:

uniteordie:

To everyone so outraged about Trayvon Martin, please meet Abdul al-Awlaki. Notice his birth certificate, he’s an American, born in Colorado.

Abdul was a 16 year old American citizen that was murdered on orders of our very own President. His crime? That his father was a suspected Al Qaida member.

Unlike the Trayvon Martin situation there is no grey area here. This teenager was specifically targeted and killed because of his religious and ethnic background and who his family was.

He committed no crime, he was guilty of nothing yet he was murdered by a drone strike.

WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED?

WHERE WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO SCORED POLITICAL POINTS COMMENTING ON ONE TEENAGERS DEATH ORDERED THE DEATH OF ANOTHER AMERICAN TEEN?

You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are. In one situation we have what appears to be an extremely unfortunate, tragic mistake and we have Congressmen on the house floor wearing hoodies and thousands protesting and screaming for justice.

On the other hand you have a child who was intentionally targeted and assassinated on the orders of the President yet you turn a blind eye. This country makes my stomach turn.

THANK YOU. What’s really disgusting is most of the MSM stories only cover his father’s assassination, completely ignoring his murder a few days later, which also happened to kill several of his friends, while they ate lunch (not that anyone cares, I guess).

Look at him. He was just a goofy adolescent boy. And that’s why it is virtually impossible to find a damn picture of him in the main stream media. Obama didn’t kill a terrorist; he killed a CHILD.

This is definitely a crime, one of the many committed by the US Government as part of its security theater operations. Sadly, emphasizing that Obama did it seems to imply that Republicans would not have done this, which is silly. This is what the US Government does because this is what a majority of the voting Americans were persuaded to think that they want and because today’s judiciary is weak and has been nominated for its ideological fidelity rather than ethics. (Canadians are not much different, it’s just that less effort has gone into indoctrinating them.)

In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world (including U.S. citizens) without a shred of check or oversight, and has massively escalated these killings since taking office (at the time of Obama’s inauguration, the U.S. used drone attacks in only one country (Pakistan); under Obama, these attacks have occurred in at least six Muslim countries). Because it’s a Democrat (rather than big, bad George W. Bush) doing this, virtually no members of that Party utter a peep of objection (a few are willing to express only the most tepid, abstract “concerns” about the possibility of future abuse). And even though these systematic, covert killings are widely known and discussed in newspapers all over the world — particularly in the places where they continue to extinguish the lives of innocent people by the dozens, including children — Obama designates even the existence of the program a secret, which means our democratic representatives and all of official Washington are barred by the force of law from commenting on it or even acknowledging that a CIA drone program exists (a prohibition enforced by an administration that has prosecuted leaks it dislikes more harshly than any other prior administration).

Wait a minute! I thought the focus is on Ron Paul’s racism! How dare you to unpatriotically question the Emperor and his sense of fashion (i.e., new clothes)?!

Glenn Greenwald@Salon.com (via fuckyeahemergence)

(Source: soupsoup, via whakatikatika)