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February 14, 2013

Desmond Tutu Blasts Idea of Special Court to Review Targeting of U.S. Citizens, Not Others 
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U.S. lawmakers have also floated the idea of creating a special court to
review strikes on U.S. citizens. South African Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu weighed in on that plan in a letter to
The New York Times. He wrote: "Do the United States and its people
really want to tell those of us who live in the rest of the world that
our lives are not of the same value as yours? That President Obama can
sign off on a decision to kill us with less worry about judicial
scrutiny than if the target is an American? Would your Supreme Court
really want to tell humankind that we, like the slave Dred Scott in the
19th century, are not as human as you are? I cannot believe it."

 

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