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So, Barack Obama's administration has been expanding the drone program, and illegally murdering people from the air, for years. But… It's the next president th

So, Barack Obama's administration has been expanding the drone program, and illegally murdering people from the air, for years. But… It's the next president that we should worry about, pertaining these same drones. The kind of opposite-speak that the MSM uses has reached ludicrous levels. This is much like reading, "Ted Bundy fears that the ideas he created will be used as inspiration by future mass murderers as they kill even more people.", except that analogy doesn't hold up, because Ted Bundy hasn't murdered anywhere near the amount of people that the Obama administration has.

rrmm 10y ago
Yeah who would have thought that the "wrong person" would ever get their hands on the drone program and huge domestic spying program. It's inconceivable! /s This is what all the civil liberties peoples feared: you make a big pot of juicy data and unilateral executive powers, and it invites expanding their uses and mis-uses. The misuser may be GWB, Obama, Trump, HRC, or the next guy, but because they exist they will eventually be mis-used. It may be rank hypocrisy for everyone to freak out about it now, but I welcome people getting freaked out about it. That said many fewer people seem to trust Trump and he is an unknown quantity, so it's easy to see why the freak-out exists even if in principle it was late in coming.
- o0-0o 10y ago
  Trump doesn't want to drone people and spy on Americans. Drone strikes will go down and so will mass surveillance of Americans.
  - vinay427 10y ago
    Please don't speak for someone else without at least trying to verify what they have said. "Trump said Tuesday that he would be "fine" with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow for the bulk data collection" [1] "I think we ought to start [surveillance] up again, and we ought to start it up this morning. We ought to start it up again and get going. And use your head. This is a lot of nonsense that we ended that," [2] [1]: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261673-trump-sides-with-rubio-over-cruz-in-nsa-surveillance http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26167... [2]: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-muslim-surveillance-216058 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-muslim-su...
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pupppet 10y ago
The article makes this point in the very first paragraph, congrats on only reading the title.

rrmm 10y ago

Yeah who would have thought that the "wrong person" would ever get their hands on the drone program and huge domestic spying program. It's inconceivable! /s This is what all the civil liberties peoples feared: you make a big pot of juicy data and unilateral executive powers, and it invites expanding their uses and mis-uses. The misuser may be GWB, Obama, Trump, HRC, or the next guy, but because they exist they will eventually be mis-used. It may be rank hypocrisy for everyone to freak out about it now, but I welcome people getting freaked out about it. That said many fewer people seem to trust Trump and he is an unknown quantity, so it's easy to see why the freak-out exists even if in principle it was late in coming.

o0-0o 10y ago
Trump doesn't want to drone people and spy on Americans. Drone strikes will go down and so will mass surveillance of Americans.
- vinay427 10y ago
  Please don't speak for someone else without at least trying to verify what they have said. "Trump said Tuesday that he would be "fine" with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow for the bulk data collection" [1] "I think we ought to start [surveillance] up again, and we ought to start it up this morning. We ought to start it up again and get going. And use your head. This is a lot of nonsense that we ended that," [2] [1]: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261673-trump-sides-with-rubio-over-cruz-in-nsa-surveillance http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26167... [2]: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-muslim-surveillance-216058 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-muslim-su...
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pupppet 10y ago

The article makes this point in the very first paragraph, congrats on only reading the title.