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So now they can detect the location of the "target" and send a drone to kill them from the convenience of their office, before going on lunch break. This reall
by mouzogu 10y ago
So now they can detect the location of the "target" and send a drone to kill them from the convenience of their office, before going on lunch break.
This really sickens me. They are inferring so much and therefore many innocent people are and will suffer.
To me this system is pure evil however much the nsa try to sugar coat or spin it. Who gave them the right to do this, to track people around the world and in many cases perform extra judicial assassinations.
- toomanythings2 10y agoThe people they kill are those who have killed others. Quit pretending they are innocents just minding their own business.
- peterkelly 10y agoOr sometimes wedding parties, such as one where the US government murdered 47 innocent people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh_Bala_wedding_party_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh_Bala_wedding_party_airstri...
- toomanythings2 10y agoYou mean like the 3000 in the World Trade Center?
- gazaren 10y agoSo two wrongs will somehow make things right?
- toomanythings2 10y agoYou forget who did it first.
- mouzogu 10y agonot sure if you are just being a troll with that statement. The loss of all innocent life is wrong, regardless of who the perpetrator is or the skin colour of the victim. Its one thing for a terrorist to behave like a terrorist and another thing for a publicly financed government to behave like one
- toomanythings2 10y agoSo the US should just sit back and take it?
- dang 10y agoWe've banned this account for serial trolling. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com. You're not welcome, though, to just continue to make accounts to break HN's rules with.
- heartsucker 10y agoEducate yourself: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-strikes_us_561fafe2e4b028dd7ea6c4ff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-st...
- toomanythings2 10y agoAnd when the twin towers fell in NYC, were there any innocents involved?
- tP5n 10y agoI remember clearly when we finally drone-bombed the 9/11 attackers to dust, what a glorious day that was. wait, what?
- toomanythings2 10y agoHas nothing to do with the point being made.
- delecti 10y agoWe went after the terrorists who perpetrated 911 because they killed innocent civilians. We have killed many innocent civilians in the process. That is indefensible, no matter our goals.
- toomanythings2 10y agoYou think war is clean and sanitary?
- delecti 10y agoI think that America's anti-terrorism efforts are insufficiently discriminatory (in the sense that they're indiscriminate, not that they're racially discriminatory (which they also are, but for obvious and probably defensible reasons)) when selecting targets. We're probably doing more harm than good by driving innocents caught in the crossfire into the arms of the very anti-American organizations we meant to target.
- alanwatts 10y agoKilling someone because they killed someone is an infinite loop.
- nan0 10y agoSo we shouldn't have done anything after all the major terror attacks in the past decade ? You need to elaborate more on your general point.
- gazaren 10y agoThe burden of being virtuous is that you should not use the same methods that the vile used on you. Something needed to be done about the terror attacks. But that something shouldn't include torture and the summary execution of people.
- nan0 10y agoI don't think we used the same barbaric methods. Terrorists have the intention of killing any nearby civilian , even if they are non government or military most of the time they play their attacks.
- heartsucker 10y ago(warning: anecdote) I knew a guy who joined the US Marines and talked about how he wanted to "shoot towel heads." I don't believe that the US armed forces are purely virtuous at the top, bottom, or in between levels. There likely is a non-zero number of service men/women who get some sort of sick joy out of murdering non-Americans.
- nan0 10y agoSo your saying that the whole United States Armed Forces is non virtuous, based on one guy you knew? This is a huge claim.
- mouzogu 10y agoI'm sorry this is just untrue. It would take 5 mins of research to realise how many innocent people have died due to extrajudicial drone attacks. Generations of people categorised as "collateral damage" to me is evil.
- benevol 10y ago> Who gave them the right to do this Before Snowden, themselves. After Snowden, the silent citizens/voters that we are did (and continue to do).