People & Power - Attack of the Drones

[Lars77]

The US government's growing reliance on aerial drones to pursue its war on al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Yemen, Afghanistan and elsewhere is proving controversial. As governments are increasingly relying on drones, what are the consequences for civil liberties and the future of war?

[Plucketeer]

1. Tis a truly horrific road

we're heading down with all this. This shit will crescendo to some sort of stalemate, and then will see the onslaught of nano-technologies where our very BODIES will be the new "battlefields". I'm glad I'm a senior citizen. I don't want to know how this all ends.

[truth2power]

2. This is truly evil, as are the people controlling those craft, because

they speak so cavalierly about wiping out a human life for no real reason.

I hope there is a stalemate, and I hope to live long enough to see the US govt. twist themselves into knots trying to explain how it's ok for us to kill anyone anywhere in the world, while other countries have no right to kill Americans.

We are exceptional, don'tcha know.

[Hutzpa]

3. We are walking into a very dangerous path

my major concern and this should be the concern of every intelligent being is what happens when all these technology falls
into the wrong hands? Not necessarily the hands of terrorist, but those created by our government, for example, privilege
employees that are disgruntle with the government, privilege employees that are unhappy because of failed projects, what
happens then? Knowing that these agents have been exposed to the magnitude of this technology. I'm talking about rogue
federal agents, just to clarify my concern. What happens then.

What happens when the good guy's lives office?

This is very troubling.