I am 100% behind the police in this situation ... also glad the perp is dead ... would hate some bleeding heart lawsuit!!!
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree Perp.....I see no distinction between using this mechanized robot > which apparently had some type of cannon on it; versus using the Dallas > Swat team. The author is attempting to portray this as some type of > violation of our Constitutional rights, and I just don't see it that way. > > I genuinely believe, based on the news coverage of the whole incident that > evening, that they were in contact with Johnson, (it was quite obvious > that the Dallas Police Chief had "first hand" knowledge of what Johnson was > conveying to Dallas Police long before the robot was engaged) and yes, > there was some attempt to get Johnson to surrender. > > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:40 PM, '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. 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