Obama's Morality

[Dammy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/w...r-on-al-qaeda.html?_r=1&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065

So it's better to drop a Hellfire on a terrorist leader then to capture them, interrogate them, and then put them in a military trial? Guess just blowing them up is a "clean hands" method of dealing with terrorist leadership vs having them as a prisoner and dealing with their trial. The silence coming from the Progressives on this matter of an ever expanding Obama kill list is deafening. Whyzzat?

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

So it's better to drop a Hellfire on a terrorist leader then to capture them, interrogate them, and then put them in a military trial?

Firing missiles at "evil doers" is done for the same reasons as torturing captives but is more efficient. Torturing false confessions out of captives reinforces the narrative that evil lurks around every corner. The Inquisition was able to establish the existence of witches by torturing people into confessions. Not only do the confessions legitimize the oppression but the torture displays the tools of the oppression and reminds people what would happen to them if they don't fall in line.

However, what the Inquisition then did was to kill the "witches" and this prevents the sort of problems that Gitmo ran into which is - the longer you have these guys hanging around alive the more likely it is that they will be found innocent and that the more the official narrative will be undermined.

What this administration has done is move the whole process into a tighter cycle and eliminated the messy tail end. Just as on death row, innocents are executed from time to time but, just as on death row, they are dead and so motivation for further investigation is curtailed. The announcing of someone's guilt of terrorism from time to time serves to reinforce the "fear of terrorism" from which we beg the state's protection and simultaneously removes contrary evidence. Brilliant - but every bit as deeply evil as the former program.

The silence coming from the Progressives on this matter of an ever expanding Obama kill list is deafening. Whyzzat?

You wouldn't know what is coming from the progressives because you don't listen to them. You aren't plugged into the progressive stream and are instead isolated from it. Progressives HAVE been critical of drone attacks for a long time but are ignored or yelled at for being unpatriotic or for being terrorist sympathisers. Progressives still talk about the evil of drone strikes but perhaps they are wondering if it is pointless or perhaps they are too shell shocked from the abuse of the hyper-patriots to be quite as direct as they used to be.

 

[robert l. bentham]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marighella-carlos/1969/06/minimanual-urban-guerrilla/index.htm

 

[robert l. bentham]

Congress Should Ban Armed Drones Before Cops in Texas Deploy One


A deputy in the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department says his agency is thinking of adding tear gas or rubber bullets to the aircraft it already owns.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national...texas-deploy-one/257616/#.T76Bq4UWPoo.twitter

Drone Program Aims To 'Accelerate' Use Of Unmanned Aircraft By Police​

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by police and other public safety agencies, an effort that an agency official admitted faces "a very big hurdle having to do with privacy."​

The $4 million Air-based Technologies Program, which will test and evaluate small, unmanned aircraft systems, is designed to be a "middleman" between drone manufacturers and first-responder agencies "before they jump into the pool," said John Appleby, a manager in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate's division of borders and maritime security.​

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...nmanned-aircraft-police_n_1537074.html?ref=tw

ur right... i should worry about what we might be doing to innocent pakistanis...