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I’d like to see more substantial consequences for consciously and deliberately sabotaging a war operation using a service the pentagon paid him to provide.
If any of us did that we’d be behind bars
Buddy we wouldn't even make it to trial.
But he was slammed in a headline! There’s no way any other consequence could even be achievable.
/s
Don't worry, I'm sure our leaders are formulating a strongly worded condemnation of their own. One might even venture to suggest they could hold a hearing about it, or assign a task force to investigate! Canceling his government contracts or charging him with anything are obviously off the table, though.
Of course that’s off the table, there’s simply no way any kind of law enforcement in our country would ever consider such violent response to actions made by a citizen.
By a wealthy citizen, you mean.
Well, he's not a representative of any state, so technically assassination wouldn't be an act of war...
I'm not advocating, just pointing out that as an individual, his position is a bit more precarious than I think he realizes.
And as much as I liked President Obama, he did set the precedent by targeting and killing a (bad) US citizen.
Who?
Anwar al-Awlaki. Most things that I'm seeing about him are that he is the first US citizen targeted by a drone strike but I remember it being a big deal that he was the first US citizen assassinated at all.
First that we know off.
Although I oppose drone strikes and Obama was the king of them, this fella was in Yeman at the time which is a bit different than wigging off your citizens on home soil.
Um... Obama isn't the king of drone strikes, the Trump administration surpassed the total number Obama era drone strikes in under two years IIRC.
Seems you’re correct. I stand corrected.
Not that it matters but I am not American and have no dog in this race. I liked Obama and thought trump was… different.
That’s the most benign description of trump that I’ve read in a while.
You might be thinking of how Obama was the “king of making them safer” because before him they just let it blow up Kids and crap willy-nilly, and he was tired of seeing that stuff so he made them create a less explosive more knife like drone for less casualties.
The flying ginsu.
He didn't sabotage it though, as another user pointed out (with sources) he had already turned off starlink awhile ago and didn't want to turn it back on for just this strike.
https://lemmy.world/comment/3259657
The richest man in the world facing consequences for his actions? Not in this timeline.