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In Bangkok when ambulances with their sirens blaring were stopped in traffic, with little notice by other cars, I was at first horrified that people weren’t taking notice.
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<div class=""> Over the years I watched films with police chases whereby all that mattered was the goal of the “police” to catch the bad guy, at everyones expense, with pedestrians, shop keepers, all being mere “collateral damage.” Then I began to recognize
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<div class="">Yes, the young mother of two who was killed by an ISP officer in Decatur, which you wrote about last year, David, is a prime example of this manipulation by the powers that be, to the concept of narcissism and the resultant “collateral damage.”
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<div class="">At the U of I COL discussion over a year ago, in relation to “The Legitimacy of Targeted Killing.” I was again an audience to the view of people being “collateral damage” when we target one person against all laws, for execution without due process.
All others killed in the process are “yes, isn’t that awful, sigh, too bad, but you know “collateral damage.” This is the thinking of the Harold K. Koh’s and all those in power.</div>
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<div class="">The idea that some lives are worth more than others is played out daily on the streets of America, across the Middle East and North Africa by our bombs, weapons, and sheer callousness.</div>
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<div class="">As Mort asked earlier, “how vile can these characters get?” I have to respond, it just keeps getting worse every day, until the people throw off the shackles of manipulation by the mainstream media and lies of government. </div>
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<div class="">Someone needs to tell Harold Killer Koh, that his example of running a red light because your wife is having a baby, a real emergency that one, says the woman who had two emergency C-sections. Never mind the potential killing and disabling of
maybe four people in another car, or a pedestrian, perhaps another woman with a baby or five kids at home. A selfish act promoted by Hollywood films for decades.
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<div class="yiv9925084463">We’re speaking of the same people, who think slaughtering thousands in an effort to control their resources is not a selfish act either. Here is a typical propaganda narrative that we see everywhere:</div>
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<div class="yiv9925084463">Was there a legal justification for US attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.,etc?</div>
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<div class="yiv9925084463">There was a lot of propaganda supporting those attacks, but legal justification?</div>
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Not this time, at least the Trump administration has offered none so far. With no prior blessing from either the United Nations or Congress, many are asking whether the attack on Syria broke the law. NPR's David Welna has the story.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11507" size="5">DAVID WELNA, BYLINE: One thing you cannot say about the Tomahawk missile attack of that Syrian air base, that the Trump administration did not warn it was coming. At
the United Nations yesterday, U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley told her colleagues that when the international community fails to act collectively against the indiscriminate use of chemical weapons, nation states may act alone. Today, Haley sought to justify last
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<font class="yiv9925084463" size="5">NIKKI HALEY: The United States will not stand by when chemical weapons are used. It is in our vital national security interests to prevent the spread and use of chemical weapons.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11509" size="5">WELNA: But Georgetown law professor Marty Lederman, who served in the Obama Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, says the U.S. has veered outside international
law under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. He says the state cannot use force within the territory of another state without that state's consent.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11470" size="5">MARTY LEDERMAN: There are one or two exceptions to the norm. One is if it's an act of inherent self-defense. That's not at issue here. Another would be if the U.N.
Security Council had approved it. That also has not happened here. And so there does not appear that there is any argument, at least none that we've heard yet, why this action would not breach the United Nations Charter.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11476" size="5">WELNA: Another veteran of the Obama administration, however, is defending the Syria airstrike. Harold Koh is a Yale law professor who was the State Department's legal
adviser during Obama's first term. Koh says a limited one-shot action like this should not be forbidden.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11478" size="5">HAROLD KOH: If you are rushing your spouse to a hospital to deliver a baby and you're trying to decide whether you can run a red light, you take that risk and hope
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11480" size="5">KOH: If the ban on the use of force in the U.N. Charter is absolute, unless there is a U.N. Security Council resolution, Russia or China could commit genocide against
its own people indefinitely and veto resolutions against it, and nobody could do a thing about it. How can that be consistent with the purposes of the U.N.?</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11482" size="5">WELNA: Trump could have also sought prior approval from Congress for last night's attack in the form of a new authorization for the use of military force or AUMF. Senate
Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain says a new a new AUMF is needed but not right now.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11484" size="5">JOHN MCCAIN: We have to respect the role of the president as commander in chief. And I would be glad and will continue to engage in negotiations with my Democrat friends
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11495" size="5">WELNA: Georgetown's Lederman says Obama refused to order airstrikes against Syria's military because Congress would not agree to it.</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11497" size="5">LEDERMAN: President Trump might have had much more success, either internationally or domestically with Republican Congress, at attaining such authorization. And one
of the most important and, thus far, unanswered questions in this episode is why he did not even make any efforts to put this under stronger international law or domestic law footing?</font></div>
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<font class="yiv9925084463" id="yiv9925084463yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494342409859_11511" size="5">WELNA: A footing that many in Congress are now demanding. David Welna, NPR News, Washington.</font></div>
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