On a lighter note. Dana Loesch asked her followers on Twitter to name the
"cop-killer killer robot".

The responses are pretty entertaining.

https://twitter.com/dloesch/status/751960622766567424

C4PO is my fav.

Thatbearguy
@Thatbearguy



On 11 July 2016 at 10:43, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I heard yesterday that the robot had a pound of C4 on it. No wonder they
> didn't show the footage of blowing that POS up!
>
> On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 1:07:00 PM UTC-4, KeithInTampa 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/
>>>>
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