Unpopular opinion: Obama should be prosecuted for the immense amount of drone strikes that resulted in thousands of deaths.
Not for the deaths themselves, but he should be tried for authorizing ‘double-tap’ strikes. Depending on the exact justification and the level of scrutiny employed, it may not rise to the level of a war crime - but there is a very good chance that it does.
Sadly, it’ll never happen. If Bush didn’t get tried for much, much worse while being much, much less popular, Obama definitely isn’t.
I’m not sure why that is an actually unpopular opinion either… They’re literally designed to hit first responders.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) includes the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against medical units and transport (arts. 8(2)(b)(xxiv), 8(2)(e)(ii)) for both international and non-international armed conflicts).
If I don’t like it when their guy does it, I don’t see why it’s ok when our guy does it.
I actually wrote up and sent Obama a strongly worded letter a few years ago, after his last term ended expressing my disappointment in him. I read his book and realized that he didn’t know, or refused to acknowledge his complicity in the atrocities of his administration. Never did get a reply.
Lincoln arguably needed it, and got it, as a requirement to win the Civil War. He suspended habeus corpus, arrested Confederate sympathizers on the spot, sized property from union and southern folks for basically any reason…
But won the war and freed the slaves; he broke the rules but was proven right.
I’m aware of the habeus corpus suspension - which I would argue was a bit of an extraordinary case as it was drawn into play initially because of the civil war, the capital was difficult to reinforce because of a rail obstruction and Congress could not safely be called into session. Even then, to my knowledge the act only applied to a small area from DC to like Pennsylvania or something. The act was rendered inoperable at the official end of the war and even before that I think all political prisoners taken during that time were released and even offered amnesty so long as they didn’t aid the confederacy, which, again given the extraordinary circumstances is a little more understandable (albeit admittedly still very contentious) than the current situation we have now.
What I’m not aware of is Lincoln’s criminal/civil immunity outside of this. Do you have any other information on this? It sounds interesting and something I have never heard of. I’d like to learn about it!
Or->and. Remember he is senile
Well, I mean… Richard “It’s Not A Crime if the President Does It” Nixon needed it.
