bernie-endorsed-a-rap1st: proletarianfeminism: On the left is Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16 year old Y
bernie-endorsed-a-rap1st: proletarianfeminism: On the left is Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16 year old Yemeni-American boy killed while eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant by a drone strike ordered by Obama in 2011. On the right is his 8 year old sister, Nora Al-Awlaki, who was killed on January 29, 2017 by a military raid ordered by Donald Trump. This is one of the saddest and most striking reminders of how the U.S. military under both Democratic and Republican presidencies is able to kill innocent lives in the global south with impunity. We need to realize that Trump is not a unique threat. Trump is a continuation of a tradition of imperial and colonial violence practiced Obama, Bush, Clinton, and all american leaders for centuries. Their father was Anwar al-Awlaki, who was a leading Al-Qaeda theorist. He held US citizenship because was born in this country and he spent the majority of his life here. He had been extrajudicially killed in a drone strike ordered by Obama a few weeks before Abdurrahman. Obama had personally put Anwar al-Awlaki on the kill list, which should maybe give the “Obama never killed anybody” crowd some pause. Anyway, this was an extremely significant case because it signaled that the US has a right to extrajudicially kill US citizens whom they perceive as a threat, which goes against the rights that we’re supposed to have, in theory. -- source link