{"id":17070,"date":"2012-11-09T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2012-11-10T04:38:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T12:38:04","slug":"what-can-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/what-can-happen-here\/","title":{"rendered":"What CAN happen here &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>JEREMY SCAHILL:<\/strong> &#8230;you were one of only half-a-dozen members of Congress &#8212; not a single senator &#8212; to simply state on the record that American citizens have the right not to be assassinated by their own government without due process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>REP. DENNIS KUCINICH:<\/strong> &#8230;it&#8217;s amazing that we&#8217;re in an America where we have to defend the rights of Americans to be free from assassination by their own country&#8230; How long is it before some local police department uses a drone to intercept and kill a suspect, and when that becomes commonplace? <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/11\/7\/jeremy_scahill_and_dennis_kucinich_in\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8211;Jeremy Scahill and Dennis Kucinich: In Obama&#8217;s 2nd Term, Will Dems Challenge U.S. Drones, Killings? <\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Kucinich submitted a bill to Congress guaranteeing Americans couldn&#8217;t be assassinated by Uncle Sam without due process a year before the drone assassination of American imam Anwar al-Awlaki &#8212; and 2 weeks later, his 16 yr-old American son because, as Obama front-man Robert Gibbs put it, &#8220;<em>he should have a far more responsible father<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Only six of &#8220;our&#8221; 535 public servants in Congress would support it.\u00a0 529 of them apparently thought that assassinating the folks they are supposed to protect and serve &#8212; and who elect and pay them &#8212; is just fine.<\/p>\n<p>So <em>one<\/em> of the things that can happen here is your assassination by Uncle Sam &#8212; and coming soon perhaps, by your local cop-shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEREMY SCAHILL: &#8230;you were one of only half-a-dozen members of Congress &#8212; not a single senator &#8212; to simply state on the record that American citizens have the right not to be assassinated by their own government without due process. REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: &#8230;it&#8217;s amazing that we&#8217;re in an America where we have to defend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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-17070","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\/17070","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17087,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions\/17087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}