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Story #1: City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation
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Washington state's anti-NDAA bill introduced with viral support
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Virginia moves closer to creating state's own currency
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Drones Fly Over Alabama Bunker Standoff
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Story #2: Scientists 3-D Print With Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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Corbett Report Episode 251 -- Solutions: 3D Printing
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The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World
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Story #3: Now You Can Encrypt Your Calls, Texts to Protect Them From Being Spied On
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Kim Dotcom: 'I want to encrypt half of Internet, total govt spying must stop!'
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Ron Paul: Obama’s Drone Wars Undermine American Values

April 28, 2014

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Ron Paul | Dr. Paul is a New York Times bestselling author and a twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran as a 2012 Republican Presidential candidate. He is author of The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System , Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property and End The Fed and other titles.

Earlier this month, CIA-operated drones killed as many as 55 people in Yemen in several separate strikes. Although it was claimed that those killed were “militants,” according to press reports at least three civilians were killed and at least five others wounded. That makes at least 92 US drone attacks against Yemen during the Obama administration, which have killed nearly 1,000 people including many civilians.
The latest strikes seem to contradict President Obama’s revised guidelines for targeted killings, which he announced last May. At the time he claimed that drones would only be used against those who posed a “continuing and imminent threat to the American people,” that there must be a “near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured,” and that safeguards to prevent civilian casualties were at “the highest standard we can set.”
None of these criteria seem to have been met. In fact, the threshold in Yemen is considerably lower than the president claims. In 2012 President Obama approved “signature strikes” in Yemen, a criteria for attack that is not based on actual or suspected wrongdoing, but rather on a vague set of behaviors that are said to be shared by militants.
This means that the individuals killed in the most recent drone attacks were not necessarily terrorists or even terrorist suspects. They were not proven to have committed any crime, nor were they proven to have been members of al-Qaeda or any terrorist organization. Yet they were nevertheless targeted for attack, and the sovereignty of Yemen was violated in the process.
Some may claim that we need to kill suspected terrorists overseas so that we can be safer at home. But do the drone attacks in places like Yemen really make us safer? Or are they actually counter-productive? One thing we do know is that one of the strongest recruiting tools for al-Qaeda is the US being over there using drones against people or occupying Muslim countries.
How can we get rid of all the people who may seek to do us harm if our drone and occupation policies continually create even more al-Qaeda members? Are we not just creating an endless supply of tomorrow’s terrorists with our foolish policies today? What example does it set for the rest of the world if the US acts as if it has the right to kill anyone, anywhere, based simply on that individual’s behavior?
We should keep all of this in mind when the US administration lectures world leaders about how they should act in the 21st century. Recently, the US administration admonished Russian president Vladimir Putin for his supposed interference in the affairs of Ukraine, saying that violating the sovereignty of another country is not the 21st century way of conducting international relations. I agree that sovereignty must be respected. But what about the US doing the same thing in places like Yemen? What about the hundreds and even thousands killed by US drones not because they were found guilty of a crime, but because they were exhibiting “behaviors” that led a CIA drone operator safely hidden in New Mexico or somewhere to pull the trigger and end their lives?
What about a president who regularly meets in secret with his advisors to determine who is to be placed on a “kill list” and who refuses to even discuss the criteria for placement on that list? Is this considered acceptable 21st century behavior?
The Obama Administration needs to rein in the CIA and its drone attacks overseas. They make a mockery of American values and they may well make us less safe.
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New Law Gives Executive Drone Policy Effective Immunity

Posted By Michael Minkoff on Apr 29, 2014 | 21 Comments

The Senate has removed a provision from its most recent intelligence bill on drone policy that would have required Obama to publicly disclose injuries and deaths from drone strikes. So Obama now has free reign to kill as many people as he wants with drone strikes, and there is almost no way to keep him accountable.

If we don’t have drone information from our own government, where can we go to get it? The Obama administration knows it can discount reports from other countries as “exaggerated.” And if it can hide its own internal reports from public scrutiny, then the Obama administration has achieved de facto drone immunity.

And there has still been no explicit guarantee from the Department of Justice that domestic drone strikes are illegal. Which means that, under the current law, American citizens charged with “domestic terrorism” could be killed by drone strikes, and the President presumably would not have to disclose it. All for the sake of national security, I’m sure. Given the fact that Harry Reid blanketly called Cliven Bundy and his militia men “domestic terrorists,” this is troubling news indeed.

Currently, drone strikes are carried out by the CIA, which is just one reason why they are not discussed in great detail. Apparently the CIA, presumably not a law enforcement agency, likes to keep all of its operations cloaked in secrecy. The problem with this, obviously, is that it puts the CIA and the Obama administration in a place where they can kill people without a trial or formal charges and no one even knows enough to hold them accountable.

In other words, the situation is really bad. As Steven Hawkins, the executive director of Amnesty International USA, said:

Congress is charged with oversight of the administration and this is a matter of life and death. A basic report on the number of people killed shouldn’t be too much to ask.

No doubt. Congress has really dropped the ball on this one.

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