Is Barack Obama a Tory? Or another fascist prick who murders people trying to rescue drone victims.

[alice wellintown]

Hina Shamsi, a human-rights lawyer at the New York University School
of Law, was struck by the inconsistency of the public’s responses. “We
got so upset about a targeted-killing program that didn’t happen,” she
told me. “But the drone program exists. ” She said of the Predator
program, “These are targeted international killings by the state.” The
program, as it happens, also uses private contractors for a variety of
tasks, including flying the drones. Employees of Xe Services maintain
and load the Hellfire missiles on the aircraft. Vicki Divoll, a former
C.I.A. lawyer, who now teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy, in
Annapolis, observed, “People are a lot more comfortable with a
Predator strike that kills many people than with a throat-slitting
that kills one.” But, she added, “mechanized killing is still
killing.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_mayer