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Tear gassing by remote control
- ck2 11y agoJust a reminder that tear gas is illegal in war according to signed Geneva conventions by the US but apparently perfectly okay for US police to literally paint on unarmed protesters. So dropping on ISIL = illegal, unarmed peaceful protestors = okay.
- sageikosa 11y agohttps://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_cha_chapter24_rule75 https://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_cha_chapter24... Yes, that is correct. "Rules of war" themselves being an interesting way to allow certain nominally neutral parties to avoid taking sides unless the rules are broken.
- PaulHoule 11y agoThe kind of bullets that police use and that people use to hunt deer are illegal in war too.
- teekert 11y ago"Here, have some tear gas, SLAVE!"
- PaulHoule 11y agoAt least you don't get hit by the canister
- bicx 11y agoThere are definitely counter-measures available, although I'm sure a well-funded entity like a government could do a good job of preventing some methods from performing well: http://dronelife.com/2015/06/04/5-anti-drone-solutions-that-could-change-the-game/ http://dronelife.com/2015/06/04/5-anti-drone-solutions-that-...