> "The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us." The LAPD destroyed a home and burned a suspect alive,

> "The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us." The LAPD destroyed a home and burned a suspect alive, while having no good reason to suspect he was even alone. And not only was there very little outrage, but many were actually cheering this on. And this, after the LAPD had multiply-revealed their snap-judgment to be dangerously-poor and restraint to be non-existent, having opened fire on innocent citizens in two separate instances, unprovoked, despite none of the citizens nor vehicles remotely matching the suspects description. Do you really expect the reaction to have been much different, if that cabin was destroyed by hellfire missile, rather than the reckless-to-intentional over-application of tear-gas? The citizenry is, to an appalling degree, OK with this sort of thing so long as the government can convince them that only "very bad people" are being targeted. (cf Ruby Ridge, Waco) Sadly, I don't see them having too much additional trouble doing that, should they start using armed drones instead of SWAT teams.