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A voice inside you is saying, ‘This is stupid. This is dangerous. But that voice inside you is useless if you stay silent,' former military pilot Greg Hill said. A former military pilot is urging Canadian police and military to courageously disobey unlawful orders and speak up against tyranny. Greg Hill, co-director of Free to Fly, an aviation group advocating “freedom of medical choice,” called upon all Canadians of influence, but particularly the police and military, to “speak the truth at all costs,” lest Canadians “pay a dear price for silence and blind obedience,” in an address published Monday, touching...

In the August issue, Tom Junod examines an entirely new application of power on the part of the president — the targeted killing of individuals deemed to be threats to the country. So far, thousands have been killed, most prominent among them Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. The decisions to target are made and the lethal missions are carried out without any public accountability, even when those targeted are Americans and even when, on one occasion, one of those Americans was a teenager. Over the course of this week, Junod considers five of the larger implications of his story...

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