From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Thu Nov 1, 2012 5:52 pm
Drone
Wars
“Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles have proven their popularity on a global scale, but drones are
also looking to go local. UAVs Predator drones currently serve as
surveillance units for drug trafficking operations along the U.S.-Mexico
border, and U.S. police officials have expressed
great interest in utilizing drone technology for law enforcement purposes
on the domestic front. In February, the Federal Aviation Administration granted
approval to Mesa County, Colo., to utilize
the Draganflyer X6, a small drone model that comes equipped with wireless
cameras and a variety of sensors, for law enforcement purposes. The Draganflyer
X6 has already been used by
police officers in Canada to gather evidence and survey crime scenes.
Another model, the Qube, developed by military drone supplier AeroVironment
Inc., was developed specifically
for law enforcement assistance.” Five Things You need to Know About
Drones by
Brianna Lee http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/drones/12659/
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| In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies
over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night.
(Photo: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) |
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| Oakland police officers in riot gear line Frank H. Ogawa plaza, the site
of an Occupy Wall Street encampment, Tuesday, Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Ben
Margot) |
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| Oakland police officers in riot gear line Frank H. Ogawa plaza, the site
of an Occupy Wall Street encampment, Tuesday, Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Ben
Margot) |
The US Empire like its make believe counterpart
in the Star Wars series has embarked upon a new way to wage war by employing the
latest technology to achieve its aim of total global domination or what they
call “Full Spectrum Dominance”. The US has become an imperialist
warmonger launching wars around the world under the guise of a bogus war on
terror. We know it is bogus because one cannot wage war on terror, terror is
not a country or a person it is a tactic. Nevertheless the corporate mind
control apparatus has conditioned us to unthinkingly go along with the carnage
and rapine because they have on one hand crafted a narrative to make the US the
“good guys” while demonizing and negating the people who live over or near vast
mineral resources the corporate psychopaths covet as “the other” or worse as “Islamofascists”!?
Notice how the “enemies” and targets of the new
killing technology are always portrayed as Muslims or Islamic
Jihadists/terrorists, never as mercenaries or stooges working fully on behalf
of Anglo-American/NATO/Israeli governmental fronts for international bankers
and multinational corporations. This is the same exact game the media and
government played on us in the ‘50’s and 60’s only back then it was the threat
of “world wide communism” that was used to keep the US on a permanent war
footing and keep our tax dollars flowing to the military industrial complex.
What we are seeing today is a classic example
of mind control and perception management by the psychopathic oligarchy, their
media, educational institutions and a sycophantic political corps. Critical
thinking is not encouraged in the schools so the okey-doke and flim-flam to
justify permanent wars, rip offs and corporate welfare continues unabated.
The media through motion pictures like the
Terminator, Star Trek and Star Wars, television shows like The Unit,
Twenty-Four and Homeland, a plethora of video games and Science Fiction novels have
created a mindset that prepares the American public to accept war, glorify
violence and live in so much fear we’ve become desensitized, dehumanized and dispirited,
to the point many of us especially the younger generations have become zombies. It is as if the goal was to create a reality
like in the movies where humans have become as soulless and devoid of empathy
and compassion as the machines and robots we create. To make matters worse,
they are attempting to meld humans (through cloning, implants and other
technology) with machines to become automatons like the Cyborgs in the Star
Trek TV series. This may sound far fetched but when you step back and take an
honest look at AmeriKKKa today, you will see this is true.
Just like in the Star Wars series the Empire had
its Clone army; the US
empire has its advanced technological drones. Increasingly the US CIA and
military are relying on unmanned aerial vehicles or drones to do their killing.
US service personnel sit behind monitors using keyboards and joysticks to search
out and launch attacks on targets around the globe and very soon in the US itself.
They have no remorse when innocent civilians
are killed and maimed. This is a continuation of the psychopathy used by
European settlers when they gleefully exterminated indigenous populations
everywhere they went on the planet from the fifteenth century on in the name of
their god, king and church, It was the same mentality used by the US when it
dropped nuclear weapons on two Japanese civilian cities in WWII after Germany
had surrendered and Japan was sending overtures about surrender. The wanton use
of nuclear devastation and destruction was a calculated strategy to bolster US stature as a
military power and induce fear amongst potential rivals. The ruling elites and
media justified the carnage by saying it was done to end the war sooner.
War breeds
death. Sane, well adjusted humans
generally have an aversion to killing. Soldiers have to be trained and
conditioned to murder which is why everyone isn’t fit to be in the
military.
The ruling elites must first brainwash folks into believing standing
armies,
massive stockpiles of weapons and a bloated military budget are a
necessity and
the military is doing a noble job. The elites must manufacture enemies
and demonize
those they desire to attack so the masses can be duped, frightened and
manipulated into killing them and stealing their lands, natural
resources or
market share on behalf of the elites. Peace loving people and critical
thinkers
know better. We know how and why the war games are played which is why
they eschew teaching critical thinking skills and promote violence and
war in their media.
In the case of current US imperial overreach, drone
killing and devastation seem based on the notion detached distance slaughter is less traumatic
than face to face combat. “What makes drones disturbing is an unusual
combination of characteristics: the distance between killer and killed, the
asymmetry, the prospect of automation and, most of all, the minimization of
pilot risk and political risk. It is the merging of these characteristics that
draws the attention of journalists, military analysts, human rights researchers
and Al Qaeda propagandists, suggesting something disturbing about what human
violence may become. The unique technology allows the mundane and regular violence
of military force to be separated further from human emotion. Drones foreshadow
the idea that brutality could become detached from humanity—and yield violence
that is, as it were, unconscious. In this sense, drones foretell a future that
is very dark indeed.”
A Brief History of Drones by John Sifton http://www.thenation.com/article/166124/brief-history-drones#
Our future is gloomy indeed. We have slipped
over the edge into an immoral abyss many warned us about. Martin Luther King Jr.
warned in 1968 “A nation that continues year after year to spend more
money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching
spiritual doom.” Looking at the
imperialist leanings and blood-lust of the US and its Western allies, it
is
clear drone wars will escalate. We will soon see the use of drones over
US skies as the elites and their flunkies move to impose their New World
Order warfare/police
state on us under a guise of security and protection. Somewhere George
Orwell
is spinning in his grave.
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