American Scofflaw
这些武装无人机在阿富汗,巴基斯坦,利比亚,也门一直在做,将是未来的空域对美国在不太遥远的将来。
What these armed drones have been doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen, will be coming to the airspace over the US in the not too distant future.
here are two types of lethal drones primarily now
used by the US: the MQ-1B Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper.[10] The Predator MQ-1B,
first flown in 1994,[11] was designed “to provide persistent intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance information combined with a kill
capability.”[12] Equipped with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, the Predator MQ-1B
was the world’s first-ever weaponized unmanned aircraft system.[13] As P.W.
Singer writes in Wired for War, “[a]t twenty-seven feet in length, [the
Predator] is just a bit smaller than a Cessna. . . . made of composite
materials instead of metals, the Predator weighs just 1,130 pounds. Perhaps its
best quality is that it can spend some twenty-four hours in the air, flying at
heights of up to twenty-six thousand feet.”[14] The MQ-9 Reaper “is larger and
more powerful than the MQ-1 Predator and is designed to prosecute
time-sensitive targets with persistence and precision, and destroy or disable
those targets.”[15] The technical precision of these weapons has been disputed,
including by companies that developed software used in targeting.[16] One
factor that reduces targeting precision is ‘latency,’ the delay between
movement on the ground and the arrival of the video image via satellite to the
drone pilot. As the New York Times reported in July 2012, “Last year senior
operatives with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula told a Yemeni reporter that
if they hear an American drone overhead, they move around as much as
possible.”[17] Even when they are precise, however, casualties and damage are
not necessarily confined to the specific individual, vehicle, or structure
targeted. The blast radius from a Hellfire missile can extend anywhere from
15-20 meters;[18] shrapnel may also be projected significant distances from the
blast.
In light of the fact that through the passage of the Patriot Act, the
Homeland Security Act, and the signing of the NDAA, the United States of
America has become a post-Constitutional republic, where none of the guarantees
and rights which used to be afforded American citizens under the Constitution
and Bill of Rights apply.
Several months after President
Obama ordered Anwar Awlaki killed by the CIA, the Obama DOJ — specifically
lawyers within its Office of Legal Counsel — produced a memorandum legally
authorizing this action. Despite multiple requests, the Obama administration
refuses to release that memo to the public. Several DOJ officials, hiding
behind anonymity, have apparently refused to leak the memo, but have now
selectively described parts of it to The New York Times‘ Charlie Savage –
presumably the parts they wanted him to know about — and he then reported on
what they said (offering some important counter-points along the way). As
Savage put it: The secret document provided the justification for acting
[against Awlaki] despite an executive order banning assassinations, a federal
law against murder, protections in the Bill of Rights and various strictures of
the international laws of war, according to people familiar with the analysis.
So if President Obama believes that he has the right to extrajudicially
assassinate any US national on foreign soil, by logical extension, that
means he believes he also has the right to extrajudicially assassinate any
American here on American soil.
In our latest
episode of "Let's Militarize The Police And Treat Civilians As The
Enemy," we now want the same scattershot drone technology to be used right
here in the good old U.S. of A.! What could possibly go wrong? I know: We'll
pass a law saying that anyone shot by drones was a "militant" and
that will fix everything! Oy: American police officers may soon be able to use
unmanned aircraft not only for surveillance, but also for offensive action. The
drones may be equipped to fire rubber rounds and tear gas. “Those are things
that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out, and in certain situations it
might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial
vehicle),” Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s
Office in Texas told The Daily news app as he outlined the possible
development. The US military and CIA have used drones armed with lethal weapons
to target militants overseas for years. The prospect of having “lite” versions
of those remotely controlled killer-machines circling over America gave some
second thoughts to rights groups
The only question is, when the US government makes the decision to
arm drones and deploy them domestically, not if; this technology is here,
proven in battle (including creating scores of innocent victims), and were I
betting woman, would bet on the deployment of these drones coming sooner rather
than later.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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