Short Quiz

[johnkarls]

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SHORT QUIZ - THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S "KILL LIST" TO ASSASSINATE U.S. CITIZENS IN YEMEN

1. Does President Obama believe in capital punishment for American citizens?

2. Does President Obama believe in capital punishment for American citizens without a trial?

3. Does President Obama order the American citizens who have had no trial to be executed by a painless method, such as lethal injection?

4. How does President Obama decide which Americans to execute without trial?

5. Why does President Obama impose capital punishment on American citizens without a trial?

6. Does it appear that President Obama has the legal right to impose capital punishment on American citizens without a trial? If so, under what circumstances?

7. Does it seem odd that if an American citizen, for whom President Obama has ordered capital punishment without trial by a "cruel and unusual" method, happens to be captured instead of exterminated, President Obama's standing orders are that the prisoner cannot be questioned using methods approved in 1978 by the European Court of Human Rights (which has jurisdiction over 45 signatory European nations) in litigation between the United Kingdom and the Irish Republican Army?

8. Which famous Democratic-Party U.S. President famously had a policy that he would use an interrogation method that had never come before the European Court of Human Rights or the International Court at The Hague, if the prisoner was believed to have knowledge of an imminent attack and American lives could be saved? What was that interrogation method? What is the unofficial name of the policy of that famous Democratic-Party President?

9. Which famous Democratic-Party Presidential CANDIDATE in 2008 famously opposed a policy of using that interrogation method even if it was the only way to save American lives? When informed of the disagreement with the famous Democratic-Party President regarding this issue, what was the reaction of the famous Democratic-Party Presidential Candidate?

10. Has that interrogation method ever been banned under U.S. law? Under a Presidential Executive Order?

11. Under which U.S. President did the C.I.A. begin the practice of "rendering" - that is, sending prisoners to other countries to be interrogated?

12. What should U.S. policy be with regard to imposing capital punishment on American citizens without a trial? With regard to questioning them in the event they happen to be captured rather than executed?