{"id":14073,"date":"2012-02-09T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=14073"},"modified":"2012-02-09T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:39:03","slug":"liberals-love-liberty-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/liberals-love-liberty-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Love &#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><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tom-blanton-liberty-drones-6334326809_bcda07f4c7_z1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tom-blanton-liberty-drones-6334326809_bcda07f4c7_z1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3393\" \/><\/a><\/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\"> <strong>imprudent 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":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14075,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions\/14075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}