re: #128 Gus

I don’t think they get the concept. A UAV in the hands of law enforcement is a tool. Both entities don’t make law and both are subject to work within the confines of law. Drones (I hate that word) don’t make law. They shouldn’t be kvetching about their future use. They should be concerned with the laws they might object to. That same logic can be applied to their military use. The question should be why are we in AFPAK and what are our future plans. More importantly what is Karzai’s plans. Their are bigger questions than UAV and their rare use in high profile cases such as Anwar al-Awlaki.

These are the sorts of people who believe the government is reading their email, sorting through their garbage cans, and keeping 24 hr surveillance on them through the use of satellites and embedded chips. To them, UAVs are just another sign of the government’s ever-growing encroachment on their lives and the inevitable day when they get hauled off to a FEMA camp and exterminated for not buying into the New World Order’s master plan.

Shit, I just described the bulk of cyberpunk fiction.