Will the U.S. Gov't Target Whistleblowers With Drones? | The Daily Sheeple: These articles were apathetically written as if outright federal assassination of anyone who speaks out against the government is so commonplace, it’s expected.
Snowden’s constitutional rights or the fact that government assassination of crime suspects would be tantamount to murder were not mentioned even once in either article as reasons why the U.S. shouldn’t go around drone striking American citizens.
Scarier still is the fact that the idea itself is plausible enough to garner such casual banter. The thought of permanently silencing dissenters through targeted strikes would not only eliminate embarrassing disclosure from government employees and contractors like Edward Snowden, but it would effectively freeze free speech by intimidating anyone else from coming forward, all while skirting the real issue at hand (in this case systematic, wholesale spying on Americans by the NSA)
