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Drone Wrath for a Compliant Society
by Sartre Batr
The military has transformed warfare into a deadly computer game with drone weapons. Media programs like Weaponology or Future Weapons on the Military Channel provide detailed examples of the lethalness of autonomous technology. The use of drones as the preferred method of carnage is well established. Seldom do moral questions come into the discussions of eliminating enemies of the state. The rules of engagement vested in international law and the Geneva Convention, either ignored or rewritten for high-tech 21st Century combat, becomes the foundational tactic to maintain the killing force of the grand empire.
The video, Remote Control War, is an informative summary of the capabilities and uses of a drone air force. After viewing the range of aftermaths from GPS targeting, ponder the role of perpetual DARPA conflict. The distress from invented terrorism is used against the American public as a tool to incrementally relinquish basic rights and individual liberties. Matt K. Lewis offers up this assessment in an item published by This Week, Obama, drones, and the blissful ignorance of Americans.
“And here’s the ugly truth: Obama is giving us what we want . . .
Americans, it turns out, don’t really have the stomach for the unseemly business of taking prisoners, extracting information from prisoners, and then (maybe) going through the emotional, time consuming, and costly business of a trial.
American citizens want someone who will make the big, bad world disappear. Problems only exist if we have to confront them. Obama has made warfare more convenient for us — and less emotionally taxing.”
Beware of the unseen predators over foreign lands for the blowback is the real source of the instability and a root cause of hatred for American hegemony. What you are witnessing is the imbalance between Legislature and the Presidency. The war powers responsibility of Congress, long surrendered to the imperial commander and chief of killing incorporated is a national tragedy.
In another TW article, Peter Weber raises an essential question, Will Congress curb Obama’s drone strikes?, provides a mainstream assessment that seems lacking within the federal government.
“Since at least the 9/11 attacks, Congress has been less than confrontational with the White House over presidential powers to conduct war and anti-terrorism operations, to the dismay of civil libertarians. So we had President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretaps retroactively green-lighted by Congress, torture only officially nixed by a change in presidents, and a big ramping-up of lethal drones being used to kill terrorism suspects under President Obama. But Obama’s decision to kill at least two Americans working for al Qaeda in Yemen in 2011, and the legal justification that emerged in a leaked white paper (read below) this week, has caused a big, unusual outcry from both the Left and Right.”
The esteemed New York Times, part of the Obama fawning media, continues to carry water for the administration in Congress to See Memo Backing Drone Attacks on Americans.
“This week, NBC News obtained an unclassified, shorter “white paper” that detailed some of the legal analysis about killing a citizen and was apparently derived from the classified Awlaki memorandum. The paper said the United States could target a citizen if he was a senior operational leader of Al Qaeda involved in plots against the country and if his capture was not feasible.”
One might be accused of NYT bashing if you dare point out that their reporting resembles a briefing session from White House press secretary, Jay Carney. The use of warbots on home soil is a short step from spreading terminal sanctions of homeland security.
Reason.com warns of the threat from a robotic police state and the common ground to oppose this misuse of surveillance in the essay, The Bipartisan Opposition to Domestic Drones.
“Both the progressive American Civil Liberties Union and the libertarian Rutherford Institute cheer legislative efforts to place strict limits on unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. And, prodded by privacy groups, state lawmakers nationwide-Republicans and Democrats alike-have launched an all-out offensive against the unmanned aerial vehicles.
The prospect of cheap, small, portable flying video surveillance machines threatens to eradicate existing practical limits on aerial monitoring and allow for pervasive surveillance, police fishing expeditions and abusive use of these tools in way that could eliminate the privacy Americans have traditionally enjoyed in their movements and activities,” the bill’s author, Sen. Robyn Driscoll, a Democrat from Billings, testified.”
The ACLU presents a list of provisions that the Civil Liberties organization advocates. Also Read the ACLU’s full report on domestic drones. “Congress has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to change airspace rules to make it much easier for police nationwide to use domestic drones, but the law does not include badly needed privacy protections. The ACLU recommends the following safeguards:
USAGE LIMITS: Drones should be deployed by law enforcement only with a warrant, in an emergency, or when there are specific and articulable grounds to believe that the drone will collect evidence relating to a specific criminal act.
DATA RETENTION: Images should be retained only when there is reasonable suspicion that they contain evidence of a crime or are relevant to an ongoing investigation or trial.
POLICY: Usage policy on domestic drones should be decided by the public’s representatives, not by police departments, and the policies should be clear, written, and open to the public.
ABUSE PREVENTION & ACCOUNTABILITY: Use of domestic drones should be subject to open audits and proper oversight to prevent misuse.
WEAPONS: Domestic drones should not be equipped with lethal or non-lethal weapons.”
Relying on Rutherford Institute Model Resolution, Charlottesville Becomes First U.S. City to Limit Police Drones; TRI Calls on Rest of Country to Follow Suit.
“In a 3-2 vote, members of the Charlottesville City Council adopted a resolution drafted by The Rutherford Institute which urges the Virginia General Assembly to prevent police agencies from utilizing drones outfitted with anti-personnel devices such as tasers and tear gas and prohibit the government from using data recorded via police spy drones in criminal prosecutions. In so doing, Charlottesville has become the first city in the country to limit the use of police spy drones, providing momentum and inspiration for other cities across the country to follow suit.
The passage of the resolution, which also places a two-year moratorium on the use of drones within city limits, coincides with a Department of Justice memo leaked to the media which outlines the Obama administration’s rationale for assassinating U.S. citizens via drone strike. With at least 30,000 drones expected to occupy U.S. airspace by 2020, John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, has called on government officials at the local, state, and federal level to do their part to safeguard Americans against the use of drones by police. Rutherford Institute attorneys have drafted and made available to the public language that can be adopted at all levels of government in order to address concerns being raised about the threats posed by drones to citizens’ privacy.”
When was the last time that a civil liberty issue developed an alliance of purpose to oppose the despotism of the totalitarian murder regime?
The Judge Napolitano YouTube: Killing Americans with Drones is Nowhere Justifiable Under The Constitution, goes unheeded as the country sinks into a zombie trance of public acquiescence. The compliant society is rooted in denial and disbelief.
Even so, some of the more perceptive state legislatures are waking up to the danger of domestic drone operations. Texas “Anti Drone” Laws Would be Toughest in USA, and “prohibit federal law enforcement or federal officials from flying drones over Texas to spy on random citizens. Only individuals who are suspected with reasonable cause could be the target of drone surveillance, and only with a warrant issued by a judge of an open and public court.”
Politico details, “Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has not decided whether he will sign a bill barring state and local agencies from using drones for two years — the first legislation of its kind in the country that passed through the state’s General Assembly Tuesday with bipartisan support.”
The National Defense Authorization Act is the latest unconstitutional measure that targets domestic citizens for punitive punishment. Due process, now reduced to “Due or Die” is the harbinger of the use of domestic drone capitulation. What will it take to awaken submissive citizens that the capability of foreign deployed drones easily can be weaponized for local operations?
The Obama administration has demonstrated an eagerness to trump up a bogus domestic terrorist threat that requires a surrender of our Bill of Rights. Reaper drones are a much greater peril than just a violation of privacy. A technology that is rapidly expanding and designed to militarize the police state into a killing field of reputed rebellious Americans – violates true national security.
“Making warfare more convenient and less emotionally taxing” is the direct opposite of the horror of battle. When a false flag surgical strike targets your location and your person, it will not be an episode in a computer simulation.
SARTRE – February 10, 2013
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“spying”, “surveillance”, “espionage”, “reconnaisance”,
are all terms for tactics of warfare, no mistake about that.
economic sabotage, including counterfeitting to devaluate a countries currency, and removal of a countries productive industrial capacity, are also tactics of warfare.
its with good reason DC is more often referred to as the “District of Criminals”,
they have proclaimed their own warfare against the American people to be “legal”.
the UN (I’m not a fan at all!) declared using weather as a weapon against another nation to be criminal,
but not governments using it against their own people, no problem with THAT at all..
chemtrailing to create or push weather systems around to cause drought, storms, floods, etc..
to bankrupt farmers so corporations can buy up the land at forclosure prices isnt WARFARE at all nope..
planting genetically modified wildgrass substitutes that make deer sterile is just preventing auto accidents,
it isnt a bio-weapon attack against hunters with guns wanting to feed their families some real meat, and it’ll never contaminate real crops that are closely related to anything wildgrass, its safe, they said so!
so what if some gun toting 2nd amendment loving redneck families go extinct for it, right?
(its already the reality in Indiana, so how many other states?)
they’ve already used a drone to prosecute a land owner for some escaped cows that had invaded his property. why should he have been made responsible for another mans escaped-trespassing cows?
why should he search his own land to return them, or allow ex cow owner to trespass and find them?
they used a drone to “prove him guilty”, no negligence charge for the guy who let his cows escape,
that might make sense.
Let’s face it, whether it be spiking the food and water supply of some unfortunate locale with drugs, or dropping biological and/or radiological agents from above, etc., our Masters have been testing potential new “technologies” out on the hapless unsuspecting peasantry for at least the last 60 years or so.
Presently, they’re using peasants in far away places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen as test subjects in a grand experiment, apparently hoping to answer questions like: How much control can we achieve over people by way of drone-induced terror from above?
Moreover, the bloody remote control mass-murder campaign is no doubt providing invaluable empirical information to help our Masters advance the technology and perfect their operational techniques.
As it becomes more and more obvious that Jewish supremacists run the U.S. government, and as it becomes more and more obvious that their agenda is world domination and control – with an iron fist – using U.S. military, economic and political power to beat the rest of the world into submission, our Masters will of course have to rely more and more on drones and other force-multiplying technology. A Bradley Manning type character in the wrong position simply can’t be tolerated.
Whether it be huge new computers, for example, to mine all the data they’ve been illegally collecting, enabling them to pick out the “thought criminals” who are potential “threats” to their grip on power, or fleets of killer drones in the skies, they will need amoral machines to do their dirty work.
Put simply, the 1% must rely on technology to control the 99%, and drones are obviously a big part of their plans.
I would note that the quote “their agenda is world domination and control…..to beat the rest of the world into submission” is perhaps negligent in mentioning that WE in this country are in the crosshairs, too, of these vermin.
I await a major VT article where the author brings a discussion to us that has positive suggestions and options available to us mere mortals that read this daily nourishment. Yes, we must fight back, but how?
In starting this discussion, I would say that it’s painfully obvious the main media is of no use to us whatsoever. Agencies that interface with real people like churches, various clubs, and other face to face modes of discourse must be utilized as well as any agency that is not bribed by the government or subjugated by financial considerations. As it stands now, what are we doing to fight this monster that amounts to anything?
SPY DRONES ON US CITIES: wouldn’t they be great for target practice???
lol, these control freaks will declare hundreds of helium balloons lofting 100 yards of monofilament fishing line each, to tangle in the drones propellers.. “an act of terrorism”. children who accidentally let go of the string on their helium balloons will be declared enemy combatants to fine or imprison parents at whim.
think I’m kidding about the “logic” of these psychopaths?
You’d better target practice on a swarm of piezoelectric dragonflies, then, as that’s what they are. Plus the robotic crows floating over the Interstates every 50 miles. : )
I think people with silencers on long-range rifles would start using them for target practice!!!
But Obama’s decision to kill at least two Americans working for al Qaeda in Yemen in 2011, and the legal justification that emerged in a leaked white paper this week, has caused a big, unusual outcry from both the Left and Right.”
The CRUX of this story is what is wrong with the entire planet,America thinks it’s world police number1# but only gives a crap about Americans dying,Americans killing Americans not in America is bad for some reason WTF??? Killing anybody anywhere is f@#ked up.No matter who,what,where that person is, unless they are threatening your safety by pointing a gun/rifle/knife at your person,Your entitled to self defense whatever means that may be.Not gutless bombing from an unmanned plane,lower than a snakes asshole would be a pretty apt description of the Pilots of the drones…
Whats sauce for the goose etc.,
The Univ.of Texas proved how easily these drones can be hacked ,
and taken over by a third party.Or jammed until they run out of fuel, as
the Iranians already have.The bandwidth to jam them is small.
Just imagine the chaos of 300000 rogue drones over the US,after seeing
what happened in Kalifornia hunting one man.
Recently a small local paper published a glowing article about the abundant future here in Oregon as OSU in Corvallis becomes the leader in drone tech . Heralding the many environmental qualities in nearby for testing the drones , Oregon seems to be the perfect place for R&D . Dominated politically by Obama supporters & financially by such entities as Gunderson [railroad cars for FEMA] and the Koch bros. [paper mills] Oregon is always looking for a solution as logging & fishing die off. With NOAA headquarters in Newport ,soon drones will be providing the security ,etc. while the “sleepy fishing town” will be the cutting edge testing for ultimate control . A perfect example of citizens championing their own demise as locals cheer the creepy changes .