The Good evening. It's Monday, October 16th. Welcome to a new episode of

System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM

Eastern exclusively year on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, in the aftermath of 9-11, the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden,

adamantly denied having planned the attack or played any role in it.

He did, however, offer theories as to why it was morally and legally justified

to target American civilians with violence.

Because American citizens choose their leaders,

he argued, and then choose them

and again when deciding to re-elect them, Americans are directly responsible for

those leaders actions including when they bomb civilians, impose sanctions

regimes that starve and otherwise kill hundreds of thousands of

innocent people, including children, when they destabilize other countries,

or work to engineer coups in other countries,

and when they invade and attack other countries

as they did with Iraq.

Indeed, after George W Bush and Dick Cheney invaded Iraq

and then bombed multiple other countries and tortured detainees and implemented

a program of kidnapping called renditions, Americans reelected them in 2004 knowing that and thus ratified all of that violence including violence that ended up killing innocent people and under bin Laden's theory, American civilians are not really civilians.

By ratifying the violence carried out by their government, they became actively complicit

in it and thus became legitimate military targets for those seeking to bring reprisals

for violence by the United States against innocent people.

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