Don't Forget to Sign Up for the "Do Not Kill" List

A number of sources (including the Wall Street Journal) report that someone has used the White House’s “We the People” website to start a petition asking it to create a “Do Not Kill” list similar to the “Do Not Call” list that has been reasonably successful against telemarketers.

This follows the New York Times report that every week or so, a bunch of National Security People get together to flip through some PowerPoint slides and “recommend to the president who should be the next to die.” The president, who you may recall won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, then personally approves names on the “kill list” for execution targeted killing by drone.

(Excerpt) Read more at loweringthebar.net …

via Don’t Forget to Sign Up for the “Do Not Kill” List.

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