Reply #137: The man's life was at stake, his father understandably tried to do

[sabrina 1]

what he could. We've watched this for ten years now, the impossibility of anyone the US accuses of being a terrorist, to get any justice whatsoever. It is one of the most shameful things about this country, a real stain on this democracy. That it was ever condoned by Congress, still makes me so angry I'd rather not think about it. Each time I watched them vote away our Constitutional rights, with both parties involved, I cried in frustration.

As far as his father petitioning the Legislative branch? In this country today? He would have a better chance petitioning a dictator somewhere than to try to get a single politician to risk his career by talking to the family of an accused terrorist.

Awlaqi will always remain merely 'an accused terrorist'. I hope one day we get this democracy back on track, but it will take courageous and real citizens, not career politicians beholden to Corporations, to do that.

Btw, it should bother us greatly that most of the people held in Guantanamo for years without charges and said by our government to 'be among the most dangerous people on the planet' were eventually released without charge. And worse, Wikileaks cables reveal that the Government knew they innocent.

Now, we are asked, once again, to believe that the Government is telling the truth about this man they just killed. A lot of people believed those Guantanamo detainees were vicious terrorists also, even some of the Left. But for me the fact they were not charged or given trials, raised too many questions to believe it. And I feel vindicated since the release of the Wikileaks cables.