{"id":3389,"date":"2012-02-09T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:51:17","slug":"liberals-love-obamas-liberty-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/liberals-love-obamas-liberty-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Love Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Liberty Drones&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on-american-citizens-abroad\/2012\/02\/08\/gIQAIqCzyQ_blog.html?wprss=rss_homepage\">Washington Post polling data <\/a>reveal that liberals strongly approve of Obama&#8217;s drone assassination policy &#8211; even when it is used to kill American citizens. Overall,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/poll-finds-broad-support-for-obamas-counterterrorism-policies\/2012\/02\/07\/gIQAFrSEyQ_story.html\"> 83% of Americans approve<\/a> of Obama&#8217;s drone killing policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. <strong>Ron Wyden<\/strong> (D-Ore.) is raising hell about the administration&#8217;s secrecy &#8211; demanding that they at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/checkpoint-washington\/post\/democrat-balks-over-secrecy-on-awlaki-killing\/2012\/02\/08\/gIQAWTOpzQ_blog.html\"><strong>release the confidential memo <\/strong><\/a>that explains why the President has the right to order secret killings. But the Obama administration is stonewalling in the best Dick Cheney fashion. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>The following poster &#8211; entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/project2000\/6334326809\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><strong>Liberty Drones<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; beautifully captures the depravity of Obama&#8217;s policy. (The artist, <strong>Tom Blanton,<\/strong> has a bunch of great art work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/project2000\/sets\/72157625409533181\/with\/6334326809\/\"><strong>PoliCulture page<\/strong><\/a> of his Flickr photos. Tom is also the mastermind of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnar.org\"><strong>Project for the New American Revolution<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is sad when the battlelines for the defense of liberty have retreated so far that it is necessary to argue that it is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2011\/0517\/Assassination-nation-Are-there-any-limits-on-President-Obama-s-license-to-kill\"> i<strong>mprudent to permit Presidents to secretly kill<\/strong><\/a> one&#8217;s fellow citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Washington Post polling data reveal that liberals strongly approve of Obama&#8217;s drone assassination policy &#8211; even when it is used to kill American citizens. Overall, 83% of Americans approve of Obama&#8217;s drone killing policy. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is raising hell about the administration&#8217;s secrecy &#8211; demanding that they at least release the confidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,90,22,91,17,38,41],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assassination","tag-assassinations","tag-attention-deficit-democracy","tag-drones","tag-elective-dictatorship","tag-obama","tag-war-crimes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liberals Love Obama&#039;s &quot;Liberty Drones&quot; - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/liberals-love-obamas-liberty-drones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberals Love Obama&#039;s &quot;Liberty Drones&quot; - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Washington Post polling data reveal that liberals strongly approve of Obama&#8217;s drone assassination policy &#8211; even when it is used to kill American citizens. 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