Obama planning drone strikes on conservatives on US soil

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Who is likely on the drone strike target list in the USA?

So who is most likely to be assassinated by President Obama once drone strikes are fully unleashed in the USA?

• Journalists.
• Political opponents.
• Anti-government protesters. (One Hellfire missile takes 'em all out.)
• Online activists.
• Veterans.
• Gun owners and gun shops.
• Constitutionalists and libertarians
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In case you only like your news from the liberal media, here you go. Even some of the left are waking up.

Daniel Ellsberg: NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision is Part of "Systematic Assault on Constitution"
 
Looks like it's time to buy Lockheed Martin stock!
 
Drones for killing should be outlawed. It's simply too one sided. One guy can be fat and lazy with his shoes on the Drone Arcade machine and take out the 'enemy'. I guess I'm old fashioned but there's more honor in meeting your enemy on the battlefield. It respects the enemy as a person giving him the chance to kill you as you try to kill him.
 
eh.. nothing respectful about combat... u find it you use it... laws of street apply..." no such thing as dirty fighting" my karate instructor said, "its only dirty when you're not winning because you didn't think of it first"...drones good or bad is a hard call... we like them killing al queda in another land, but don't if its al down the street....well... the duplicities (yes multiples) of americas foreign as well as homeland policies have not escaped (my appearing) idol eyes...
 
I blame gun powder. Warfare has never been the same since.

But really, armies have always been trying to distance themselves from man vs man. The ancient Spartans developed a fighting system that relied not only on heavy armor but also on team work. This was a sharp contrast to the skirmishers they faced from the far East. Alexander had a hard time incorporating certain Eastern fighters into his army mostly because they favored warrior heroics and would more often than not break line to fight 1-on-1. Of course, the battlefield purged them quickly from the ranks. At the end of the day, those who survive pass on their genes, regardless of what trick they used. In today's world being a fat slob isn't a problem so long as you have good hand to eye coordination.
 
faethor said:
Drones for killing should be outlawed. It's simply too one sided. One guy can be fat and lazy with his shoes on the Drone Arcade machine and take out the 'enemy'. I guess I'm old fashioned but there's more honor in meeting your enemy on the battlefield. It respects the enemy as a person giving him the chance to kill you as you try to kill him.
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War's like that. Suicide bombers and kamikaze pilots are cowardly, high altitude bomber pilots are heroic, the more immune from retribution you are the more godly you seem. But war is street fighting but more-so. Queensbury rules do not apply because winners don't want rematches and absolute winners don't need to preserve any reputation with the vanquished. If war was honorable then no-one would ever have to bomb the TV stations and kill journalists that weren't reporting just the specially selected news.
 
faethor said:
Drones for killing should be outlawed. It's simply too one sided. One guy can be fat and lazy with his shoes on the Drone Arcade machine and take out the 'enemy'. I guess I'm old fashioned but there's more honor in meeting your enemy on the battlefield. It respects the enemy as a person giving him the chance to kill you as you try to kill him.
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Thankfully Obama is using more and more drones because "AIR-RAIDING VILLAGES AND KILLING CIVILIANS" is Obama policy!

If you give "the enemy a chance to kill you" that just means more code pink protesting

The Military is designing future weapons to use arcade controls, since there are a lot of highly trained arcade controller personnel available, the military provides a room with a comfortable sofa, chips, soda's and panorama view monitors to those who enlist.
 
robert l. bentham said:
eh.. nothing respectful about combat... u find it you use it... laws of street apply..." no such thing as dirty fighting" my karate instructor said, "its only dirty when you're not winning because you didn't think of it first"...drones good or bad is a hard call... we like them killing al queda in another land, but don't if its al down the street....well... the duplicities (yes multiples) of americas foreign as well as homeland policies have not escaped (my appearing) idol eyes...
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Personally I don't like them killing Al Queda. I'd perfer to see Al Queda arrested and tried in the Court of Law. As it is we are just to trust their judgment to be police, judge, and executionary? Too much power there, that's why many countries seperate those duties.

Metalman said:
Thankfully Obama is using more and more drones because "AIR-RAIDING VILLAGES AND KILLING CIVILIANS" is Obama policy!
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This is USA Military policy and appears to be independent of the US President. Bush did it and I expect the post Obama, no matter which party, will continue. Doesn't excuse Obama, of course. But, understanding that Obama is not alone here does provide a more fair perspective. Don't forget Congress does have the power to outlaw this action and/or defund the programs.
 
faethor said:
Personally I don't like them killing Al Queda. I'd prefer to see Al Queda arrested and tried in the Court of Law. As it is we are just to trust their judgment to be police, judge, and executioner? Too much power there, that's why many countries separate those duties.
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i agree 100%
 
robert l. bentham said:
i agree 100%
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I can't say I agree. We should not treat al-Qaeda like a criminal organization. Instead we need to aggressively track them down and kill them. Obviously this isn't always practical and when we find al-Qaeda members in areas where the rule of law prevails we'll need to abide by that. But that's unfortunate in my opinion because they don't deserve a fair trial or a safe prison cell. I'm glad they didn't capture Osama. All of al-Qaeda need to be tracked down and killed like dogs.

Criminals are put in prison to be rehabilitated and the released back to society. Prison terms are also designed to deter people. al-Qaeda can't be rehabilitated or deterred. Fighting al-Qaeda is like fighting an idea, or a religion. Putting them in jail does nothing against an idea or a belief. The only way to stamp it out is to kill them all. And the quicker we do that the better.

There, that should make this thread a little livelier.
 
i couldn't figure out where you got this quaint notion from "Criminals are put in prison to be rehabilitated and the released back to society." since we readily accept in america that we are just warehousing/enslaving people in our prisons... then i noticed you're from canada... heh heh :D they might do that up there in your country, but they sure dont here. commonly referred to as "gladiator training camps" by both inmates and guards, american prison systems look less like the originally intended rehabilitationists dream than anyone would think... killing seems like a really viable option; until its you that gets put on the "too die" list even if its by accident....errant incidents with the no fly list come to mind... intelligence is apparently and admittedly fallible, leads nations to war... probably not the best way to administer justice....
 
Ron Paul speaks out.

In attempt to ease criticism of the use of drones against Americans, some in Congress propose more oversight, as if that should make us feel any better. In last week’s hearings, CIA nominee Brennan suggested that he was open to a Congressional proposal to set up a secret court to oversee the president’s program to kill Americans by drone. Should we cheer that a court selected by government officials will meet in secret to oversee the president’s secret decisions on killing Americans without charge or trial? Has the Constitution been so eroded that we accept such a horrific and terrifying prospect?
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