The Drone That Killed My Grandson
By NASSER al-AWLAKI
Published: July 17, 2013 672 Comments
息子さんとお孫さんがイエメンで、アメリカの無人機に射撃されて殺された、と。
息子さんは、テロの関係者とされていたわけですが、令状があったわけでもなく、お孫さんはまったくの無辜の市民ーー米国籍ありーーーだったようであります。
なんでなんだ、政府よ説明してくれ、と。
で、海外での無人機による銃撃殺人と、最近の黒人少年射殺事件を関連づける記事がいくつかあります。
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The U.S. v. Trayvon Martin: How the System Worked
Posted: 07/15/2013 1:40 pm
The point is that justice was always going to elude Trayvon Martin, not because the system failed, but because it worked. Martin died and Zimmerman walked because our entire political and legal foundations were built on an ideology of settler colonialism -- an ideology in which the protection of white property rights was always sacrosanct; predators and threats to those privileges were almost always black, brown, and red; and where the very purpose of police power was to discipline, monitor, and contain populations rendered a threat to white property and privilege. This has been the legal standard for African Americans and other racialized groups in the U.S. long before ALEC or the NRA came into being.
And we will miss how this history of routine violence has become a central component of the U.S. drone warfare and targeted killing. What are signature strikes if not routine, justified killings of young men who might be al-Qaeda members or may one day commit acts of terrorism? It is little more than a form of high-tech racial profiling.
白人の財産を守ることが神聖不可侵の掟で、、警察は、それを脅かす有色人を訓練、監視して、植民による植民地主義がアメリカの根底にあるのだ、と。
国内では、黒人が怪しいからつけ回されて殺されたように、国外では、アルカイーダと疑われたり、将来テロ行為をするかもしれない、などと疑われたら、つけ回されて無人機で殺される、というわけでしょう。
Assassinations at Home and Abroad
Wed, 03/21/2012 - 11:06 ― Jemima Pierre
But if we are angry that Zimmerman’s non-prosecution is an effect of the Florida “stand your ground” laws allowing – indeed, encouraging – “justifiable homicides” on the basis of perceived threat, we should also be angry about another claim for justifiable homicides that also hides under legal cover: the US government’s targeted assassination program. In a speech to Northwestern University law student in early March, Eric Holder argued that the Obama administration has the authority to secretly target and kill U.S. citizens and non-citizens perceived to be threats without the target knowing s/he is a target, without the target being charged, without the target being given an opportunity to respond to the charges, and without any judicial oversight.
Our righteous indignation and anger over the Trayvon Martin murder has to stretch beyond our community to consider a global humanity – and especially the nonwhite victims of US militarism and racism.
黒人少年射殺事件で、怖かったら殺していい、というのがおかしいと思うなら、、海外でも同じように、脅威と感じたら殺害していい、というアメリカの政策に憤慨すべきで、、国外におけるアメリカの軍国主義と人種差別の犠牲者についても思いをよせるべきである、と。
FRIDAY, JUL 19, 2013 02:46 AM +0900
Holder’s amazing anti-drone war speech
In powerfully decrying Stand Your Ground laws, the attorney general effectively rebuked current U.S. foreign policy
BY DAVID SIROTA
Institutional vigilantism is the kind of lawless behavior whereby the government extrajudicially executes a 16-year-old boy and ― separately ― his father, without citing a legal rationale or even so much as charging either of them with a single crime.
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And yes, it is the kind of drone-war vigilantism that, as the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates notes, “shares an ugly synergy with the broad-swath logic employed (by) the killer of Trayvon Martin.” Indeed, the New York Times points out that the administration justifies the drone killing of civilians on explicitly Zimmmerman-ish grounds, insisting that regardless of innocence, those extrajudicially executed by the government deserve their punishment because by virtue of being in a drone strike area, it means they “are probably up to no good.”
たぶんよからぬことをたくらんでいるとされて、つけまわされて殺害されるというのが、両者の共通点で、
the civil rights leader said that we must see the fight to halt unnecessary violence and racism at home not as separate and distinct from the government’s military policies, but inherently connected to them. Addressing critics who demanded that he not draw comparisons between the violence against minorities at home and the Democratic president’s state-sponsored violence against people of color abroad, King said:
But they are also a reminder that we can only make that progress when the principles in Holder’s NAACP speech finally apply to both individual vigilantism and the government’s institutional vigilantism.
キング牧師が言ったように、、国内の有色人種に対する暴力や人種差別をやめさせると同時に、政府による国外での有色人に対する暴力や人種差別をやめさせなければ、進歩はない、と。
ーーーー黒人少年射殺事件と無人機によるテロ容疑者殺人事件ではどこまで、似ているか難しいところではあります。
私は正当防衛や自衛戦争を否定するものではないのですが、ただ、正当性の要件があまいと、おかしなことになる。
アメリカにおける、国内での拳銃による殺害事件、また米軍による、国外での武力による殺害事件というのは、臆病でマッチョな男が恐怖に駆られて、八つ当たり、乱射している、ようなイメージが私にはあるのであります。
それと、米軍による米軍内部における、性的暴行、搾取に憤慨するなら、アメリカのマスメディアは、国外で、米軍に性的暴行、搾取された、あるいは、されつつある女性たちに思いをはせ、同様に憤慨すべきでしょう。
在日ジャーナリストの多くがいまだに、占領軍の隊員か、植民地の植民のごとく傲慢な記事しか書けない現実をどうにかする必要があります。
