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While I share your apparent concern for civil liberties, the assumption that we're likely to see armed drone strikes on US soil is hyperbolic and rooted in misa

While I share your apparent concern for civil liberties, the assumption that we're likely to see armed drone strikes on US soil is hyperbolic and rooted in misapprehension of why the state uses drone strikes abroad. Drone strikes are used as a replacement for manned air strikes, which in turn are used when a target is too isolated to engage with ground forces. The reason that we're not going to see drone strikes on US soil is the same reason we don't see air strikes on US soil: you can deploy SWAT teams on US soil.

arca_vorago 11y ago
The actual danger from militarized drones actually comes not from "strikes", in the sense that the military uses them (mostly from large predator style UAVs), but in the militarization of police as it relates to using drones. In this case I am mostly seeing gas powered helo-uav's with armaments attached, and the laws are quickly being passed to dot the i's and cross the t's for LE. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/27/435301160/north-dakota-legalizes-armed-police-drones http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/27/435301160/... So you are correct in that we won't see hellfire missles deployed on US ground, but rather small arms on wings... which is almost scarier to me simply because a hellfire would raise eyebrows, but a news snippet of using a armed drone to engage a $villan is sure to become normalized far too quickly.
- ska 11y ago
  "militarization of police " You can pretty much stop there. This is the root cause of a huge number of problems.
merpnderp 11y ago
s/hyperbolic/historic/ http://www.npr.org/2015/05/13/406505210/philadelphia-marks-30th-anniversary-of-move-bombing http://www.npr.org/2015/05/13/406505210/philadelphia-marks-3...
drjesusphd 11y ago
> the assumption that we're likely to see armed drone strikes on US soil is hyperbolic No, it isn't. They have intentionally targeted and assassinated US citizens. What makes you think they care so much more about geography?

arca_vorago 11y ago

The actual danger from militarized drones actually comes not from "strikes", in the sense that the military uses them (mostly from large predator style UAVs), but in the militarization of police as it relates to using drones. In this case I am mostly seeing gas powered helo-uav's with armaments attached, and the laws are quickly being passed to dot the i's and cross the t's for LE. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/27/435301160/north-dakota-legalizes-armed-police-drones http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/27/435301160/... So you are correct in that we won't see hellfire missles deployed on US ground, but rather small arms on wings... which is almost scarier to me simply because a hellfire would raise eyebrows, but a news snippet of using a armed drone to engage a $villan is sure to become normalized far too quickly.

ska 11y ago
"militarization of police " You can pretty much stop there. This is the root cause of a huge number of problems.

merpnderp 11y ago

s/hyperbolic/historic/ http://www.npr.org/2015/05/13/406505210/philadelphia-marks-30th-anniversary-of-move-bombing http://www.npr.org/2015/05/13/406505210/philadelphia-marks-3...

drjesusphd 11y ago

> the assumption that we're likely to see armed drone strikes on US soil is hyperbolic No, it isn't. They have intentionally targeted and assassinated US citizens. What makes you think they care so much more about geography?