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Can the President Kill Americans?

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Can the President Kill Americans? http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2015/04/21/can-the-president-kill-americans/ Can the president kill you? The short answer is: Yes, but not legally. Yet, President Obama has established a secret process that involves officials from the Departments of Justice and Defense, the CIA, and the White House senior staff whereby candidates are proposed for execution, and the collective wisdom of the officials then recommends execution to the president, who then accepts or rejects the recommendation. If the recommendation is to kill and the president rejects the recommendation, the CIA is directed to arrest the person. If the president accepts the recommendation to kill, then death is ordered. This is not unlike the procedure used in the reign of the monstrous British King Henry VIII, except that the king himself delegated the final say to his chancellor so that he could publicly disavow participation in the government murders. Obama does not disavow them; he ...

'Killer robots' pose risks and advantages for military use

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'Killer robots' pose risks and advantages for military use Human rights groups to push for ban on lethal autonomous weapons at UN meeting next week By Kathleen Harris, CBC News Posted: Apr 09, 2015 7:18 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 10, 2015 2:50 PM ET The kind of artificially intelligent soldier-robot from the futuristic movie The Terminator may be a long way off, but policy analysts are grappling now with limits on the military use of robots. (Herwig Prammer/Reuters) As Canada prepares to take part in international talks on so-called "killer robots" next week, documents obtained by CBC News show defence officials see risks but also military advantages to deploying deadly autonomous weapons. Records released under the Access to Information Act show officials at Foreign Affairs and National Defence are keeping an open mind as they carve out a Canadian position on the controversial systems — in spite of growing calls for a pre-emptive global ban. Lethal autonomous we...