That's what they do in banana republics where there is no rule of law. On Jul 10, 2016 11:40 AM, "'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum" < [email protected]> wrote:
> > I fail to see the difference in terms of morality between sending in 20 > cops with machine guns (and risking some or all of them being blown up by a > terrorist - which this guy WAS) vs. sending in a remote-controlled weapon > to take him out. The decision-making would be the same - determining he was > guilty without trial and needed to be killed. The only thing using a robot > to do it with achieved was to preserve the lives of LEOs. How is that a > dangerous thing? I applaud it, and only wish we had had similar capability > to take out the terrorist in Orlando without harming innocents before he > killed 49 of them. > > On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 12:09:31 PM UTC-4, MJ wrote: >> >> >> July 9th, 2016 >> >> *A Drone Was Used to Blow up a US Citizen Without Trial Yesterday. Let >> That Sink In *by hqanon >> >> * ( RPI >> <http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2016/july/08/in-dallas-drone-wars-just-came-home/>) >> *The Dallas shootings have ushered in a very new world for U.S. >> citizens. For the very first time, a drone has been used on U.S. soil to >> kill an American without trial or charges. >> >> The suspected shooter in yesterday’s tragic killings, U.S. Army veteran >> Micah Xavier Johnson, was, according to police and press reports, holed up >> in a parking garage and would not give himself up. After hours of what >> police claimed were fruitless negotiations with Johnson, a weaponized >> robot was sent >> <http://undergroundreporter.org/killer-robot-dallas-human-rights/> to >> where he was hiding and blown up, taking Johnson with it. >> >> Get past the horror of what Johnson was accused of doing and think about >> that precedent for a moment. Is it not chilling? >> >> RPI regular contributor Peter Van Buren, a retired State Department >> official who did a tour in Iraq, put a very fine point on the “robot” bomb: >> >> [image: Emacs!] >> >> Indeed, even without wings, this was a drone sent in to kill an American >> suspected of a crime. >> >> Police claim that continuing the negotiations was pointless and >> attempting to capture him would have put officers at risk. He was >> supposedly shooting. While no sane person wants police officers to be >> killed, risk is something we are told they willingly accept when they sign >> up for police duty. There are plenty of low-risk jobs out there. >> >> The media and opinion-leaders are presenting us with a false choice: if >> we question the use of drones to kill Americans even if we suspect they >> have done very bad things we somehow do not care about the lives of >> police officers. That is not the case. It is perfectly possible to not want >> police officers to be killed in the line of duty but to wholeheartedly >> reject the idea of authorities using drones to remotely kill Americans >> before they are found guilty. >> >> African-American Dallas protester Mark Hughes was wrongly identified >> <http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/08/3796589/dallas-misidentified-suspect/> >> by Dallas Police as a suspect in the shootings. Police tweeted photos of >> Hughes marching with protesters openly carrying a rifle, as is permitted in >> Texas. Police claimed he was involved in the shooting. He was a suspect >> just like Johnson was a suspect. During questioning they told Hughes >> that they had video of him shooting people >> <http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/man-wrongly-idd-as-dallas-shooting-person-of-interest-says-cops-lied-to-him-during-interrogation/>, >> which was a lie. What if police had sent in a drone to take out Mark >> Hughes? What will happen in the future to a future Mark Hughes, falsely >> accused by police of being involved in a shooting? Will we come to accept >> murder without trial? >> >> >> http://anonhq.com/drone-used-blow-us-citizen-without-trial-yesterday-let-sink-inrpi-dallas-shootings-ushered-new-world-u-s-citizens-first-time-drone/ >> > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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