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10 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING 20 Declaring President Obama as drone king 30 WHEREAS: Up to 3,461 have been killed in Pakistan, up to 1,112 have been killed in Yemen and 40 up to 170 have been killed in Somalia by armed CIA unmanned aerial vehicles; 40 WHEREAS: Every Tuesday the President looks through a comprehensive kill list including three American 50 citizens and he decides who he wants to kill in the world that week without any due process; 60 WHEREAS: A recently released white paper declared that drone strikes are justified when an informed, high70 level official of the US government has determined that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of 80 violent attack against the US which can include U.S. citizens which could be expanded to US soil and declares 90 that the world is a battlefield; 100 WHEREAS: Drone strikes in other countries result in more recruits to Al-Qaeda and it results in anger against 110 the United States on a worldwide scale; 120 WHEREAS: Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 130 argued that some of the drone strikes may constitute war crimes; 140 WHEREAS: The current president has asserted the power to imprison or eavesdrop on US citizens 150 without charges or trial, but to order them executed in total secrecy, with no checks or oversight; 160 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Maryland Student Legislature urges the United States Congress 170 to declare that President Barack Hussein Obama is a drone king. 180 MANDATES: Martin OMalley, Governor, Maryland 190 Michael E. Busch, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates 200 Thomas V. Miller, President of the Maryland Senate SPONSORS: Burkely Hermann, St. Marys College of Maryland