That is NOT how America is supposed to work.
As an aside, we have another "lone gunman" with impeccable accuracy and speed .... dead at the scene.
Regard$,
--MJ
“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it invites every man to become a law unto himself.... To declare in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal [or, I would interject, to protect the impunity of a privileged criminal] would bring terrible retribution.”
-- Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S., 1928 (dissenting)
At 05:39 PM 7/10/2016, you wrote:
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. Â
- I genuinely believe, based on the news coverage of the whole incident that evening, that they were in contact with Johnson, Â (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) 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 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:
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- 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 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, 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/
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