MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Wicked stupidity, stupidly wicked. "How drones help al qaeda"
By jollyroger on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 5:38pm |Trope recently introduced into Destor's post survey results detailing Americans' enthusiasm for our death by drone program. A chillingly clear tabulation of the real world ramifications from a local source today should make us hit the pause button on this hideous video game.
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Even Rumsfeld understood this "metric" “DEAR OBAMA, when a U.S. drone missile kills a child in Yemen, the father will go to war with you, guaranteed. Nothing to do with Al Qaeda,” a Yemeni lawyer warned on Twitter last month.
by jollyroger on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 6:56pm
An eye for an eye, a death for a death; that is the law for those Muslims. They will have their vengeance despite Obamas ignorance.
by Resistance on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 8:14pm
Yahwistshumans . They will have their vengeance despite Obamas ignorance. There, fixed it for youby jollyroger on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 8:47pm
It's good, I'm neither Yahwist or Muslim? I don't think I could survive under the Mosaic Covenant Law.
I wouldn't have any livestock left.
by Resistance on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 10:19pm
There's a new poll out with emphasis on domestic use, but also includes military:
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/13/12205763-poll-americans-ok-...
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 12:29am
Like the man said at Lakehurst, "oh, the banality ...". They are fine with murder-of-children by drone which is guaran-fuckin-teed to lead to at least terrorism attempts, but they want to empower the choice to speed which largely results in the random slaughter of tens of thousands annually. How can a vindicable interest in the privacy to put at risk unoffending strangers be asserted in lieu of a demand that one's taxes not buy dead children abroad? One cannot but cringe and recall the one-liner of the decade. "If we hated you for your freedom, we would have attacked Sweden" (thank you, I'll be here all week,... who knows, maybe indefinitely, tip your server or lose your head...I kid, I kid..")
by jollyroger on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 3:37am
Just a polite warning - get the numbers killed more precise, because for some reason when we backtrack from "tens of thousands" to say "4000", the justifiable outrage is suddenly lost, with a "how dare you exaggerate!!!"
(even thought that number is 33% over that poignant "3000" we've been fixated on for over a decade)
And sometimes how a handful die is more important than the total volume. People sometimes take these things personally. How bizarre and primitive.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 3:45am
by jollyroger on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 4:29am
Yeah, but we're more terrified of Son of Sam & the Boston Strangler & some pedophile on Facebook than we are the reality of a speeding hunk of metal driven by an idiot in a hurry.
And the number seems to be closer to 3000 in our little shoot-em-up gallery. Is it better to pick them off 1 at a time to let the anger build? Or do they get inured to the onslaught? It seems for some reason they're getting more & more upset. Who could have predicted
terrorists flying planes into buildingskilling off a people's women & children a few at a time would have such an effect?by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 6:09am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 5:46pm
In shifting focus to the "successful " drone hit which comes off absent innocent deaths the post offers this thought experiment: Were all people wearing a remotely detonated neck collar, what governmental structure would we.require to invest with legitimacy a scenario pursuant to which a warning and demand to surrender for trial within 48 hours or die might issue ? Clearly the tribunal would need to be supra national and unimpeachably fair. (ie, not Gitmo) Another reason to seek world government?
by jollyroger on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 6:28pm