Murder By Presidential Decree
Jan. 4th, 2020 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloGovernments ought not to be above the law they exist to maintain- and so really shouldn't murder people. We know they do- but all the same it's disheartening when they do it in such a way as to hit the headlines- and so remind us that presidents are no better than mafia dons.
In the wake of the murder of Qassim Soleimani the LRB has reprinted- free to view- Seymour Hersch's account of the murder of Osama Bin Laden. If Hersch is to be believed- and I don't see why not- almost everything we were told about the operation (by the President among others) was a lie. Bin Laden was a sitting duck- a prisoner of the Pakistanis, an invalid, mentally confused, unguarded, unarmed. There was no opposition, no firefight and no question of him being taken alive; it was a hit- pure and simple.
Like I said, disheartening.
In the wake of the murder of Qassim Soleimani the LRB has reprinted- free to view- Seymour Hersch's account of the murder of Osama Bin Laden. If Hersch is to be believed- and I don't see why not- almost everything we were told about the operation (by the President among others) was a lie. Bin Laden was a sitting duck- a prisoner of the Pakistanis, an invalid, mentally confused, unguarded, unarmed. There was no opposition, no firefight and no question of him being taken alive; it was a hit- pure and simple.
Like I said, disheartening.
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Date: 2020-01-05 07:15 pm (UTC)Everything about the government disgusts and disappoints me currently. But the normal people who believe the psychopathic nutjob in the White House is God's chosen gift to the world make me want to go on a murderous rampage.
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Date: 2020-01-05 08:20 pm (UTC)