{"id":7283,"date":"2014-07-07T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:35:20","slug":"killing-lieu-surveilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/07\/killing-lieu-surveilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing in Lieu of Surveilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles deserves another\u00a0Pulitzer\u00a0Prize for this superb cartoon.\u00a0 Some people are singing hallelujahs over the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision<\/a> that police cannot automatically search people\u2019s cell phones.\u00a0 However, the Supreme Court has done nothing to negate the government\u2019s prerogative to kill people based on secret memos, secret evidence, and utter bunk.<\/p>\n

I started ragging on the U.S. government’s assassination policy long ago when Obama was a presidential candidate who pledged to obey the Constitution. A 2011 story I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor<\/a>\u00a0(“Assassination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill?”) evoked a torrent of testy online\u00a0comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* “Hopefully there will soon be enough to add James Bovard to the [targeted killing] list.”<\/p>\n

* “We need to send Bovard and the ACLU to Iran. You shoot traders and the ACLU are a bunch of traders.”<\/p>\n

* “Now if we can only convince [Obama] to use this [assassination] authority on the media, who have done more harm than any single terror target could ever dream of\u2026”<\/p>\n

* “James bovard… We would all be better off if bigots like you stopped writing crap.”<\/p>\n

* “You guys who are against killing these guys are going to be the death of all of us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles deserves another\u00a0Pulitzer\u00a0Prize for this superb cartoon.\u00a0 Some people are singing hallelujahs over the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision that police cannot automatically search people\u2019s cell phones.\u00a0 However, the Supreme Court has done nothing to negate the government\u2019s prerogative to kill people based on secret memos, secret evidence, and utter bunk. 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