i will have to dig up this news article i saw unless someone else has it. The article where the US used a LASER to blow up an artillery shell in mid flight.
YES Artillery NOT a missile thats just got so much potential its not even funnny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cantrell, Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:46 AM Subject: RE: Robotic assassinations. > The reason I ask is because the conspiracist in me is wondering how long > before we start using these things on our own people as a secretive form of > law enforcement? Wellstone anyone? He was against the 'war'. I could see a > hard core war-monger interpreting this as a criminal act of treason. And if > it's as easy as moving a joystick around in order to make that criminal just > go away, then heck - why not? (don't call me on Wellstone - just speaking > figuratively and where the trend is going - I'm not going there to say > Wellstone was killed.) > > Today it's the 'terrorists' we're targeting, and using as an excuse to keep > our defense industry nice and bloated. But what happens when the terrorists > are defeated? Do we just fire the defense contractors and say "well, it was > nice building these little unmanned aircraft that are capable of shooting a > flaming laser down somebody's spinal column, but we don't really see a need > for that anymore". I doubt that happening. > > And Mike, to bring up Israel, and then use this as justification for what > they do is wrong. Your words were something along the lines of "All right - > Israel has been doing this all along. Now don't you see we are right?" > > This bears repeating since you keep bringing up Israel: > There is no difference between Israelis and Palestinians other than their > religion - this is why the world doesn't really do anything about it, and > just sits back in disgust. The fact that they're still at war over something > that most people stopped fighting for hundreds of years ago is in fact > disgusting. To continue on and try to make up other reasons is silly and > ignorant. If nobody was blatantly religious, nobody would know who to kill. > The hardline religion stops, the violence stops. The fact that you're > willing to die just because you're so attached to your religious beliefs is > your choice, and somewhat respectable, but don't expect the rest of the > world to support that. Shooting people with rockets is TEMPORARY; in the > long term it's just more fuel to the fire. Lightening up your religious > beliefs, and not discriminating against the people who have conflicting > religious beliefs will fix it. Since that won't happen with either the Jew's > or the Muslim's, then you'll just have to keep killing each other. Just > because one side uses sophisticated technology doesn't make it right. I know > you'll say it's the Arabs who are instigating and that you're just trying to > live in peace, but they're saying the same thing about you. > > You should also know that the US is taking advantage of the situation over > there - how you still don't see this is beyond me. Confilct in that region > is what keeps the US in control of the precious oil. Without conflict, that > region might *gasp* prosper, and actually establish itself. > > Adam. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:Acantrell@;kentlaw.edu] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:11 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Robotic assassinations. > > > > > > Surprised nobody has brought up the robotic assassination the > > CIA conducted > > on Sunday in Yemen. > > > > http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20021104/ciadrone.html > > > > Basically they used an unmanned Predator aircraft to fire a > > Hellfire missile > > at some terrorists driving in a car. > > > > What do you think - cowardly or patriotic? > > > > Adam. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
