Barack Obama receives Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award.

in #obama5 years ago


Even less deserved than his Peace Prize.

Was it for bombing a hospital full of civilians, deporting record numbers of noncriminal undocumented immigrants, hugely expanding the warrant-less domestic surveillance apparatus, invading half the Middle East, or keeping Guantanamo Bay open?

He declined to prosecute torturers who violated US law and the Geneva Convention, used the state secrets privilege to kill people from going after their torturers in court, and perpetuated endless drone attacks that killed a great number of innocent people.

Like all US presidents, he is a murderer who sleeps easy because his victims are faceless, nameless, unreal to him.

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