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Decision to Blow up US Citizen With Robot Was Improvised in Less Than 20 Minutes
Activist Post Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program ^ | July 13, 2016 | By Claire Bernish

Posted on 07/13/2016 9:49:10 AM PDT by b4its2late

A hotly-contested decision by law enforcement to use a drone robot to blow up a U.S. citizen, who allegedly carried out the murders of five police officers in Dallas, just got exponentially more controversial—because, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown, the “whole idea was improvised in about 15 to 20 minutes.”

Already igniting fury around the country for neglecting any semblance of due process, the use of the “Remotec model F-5” to deliver a pound of C-4 explosive to decimate suspected shooter Micah Xavier Johnson as he targeted police in a sniper-style attack, has been revealed by the police chief as a hastily-plotted … whim.

Brown’s disturbing offhand comment came during a press conference in which the model of the “mechanical tactical drone”—clarified as the “Remotec Andros Mark V-A1″—was finally made public, in an apparent attempt to quell constitutional rights’ advocates ire over the unprecedented move by police.

While Johnson’s cold-blooded attack on random police officers in one of the most progressive and reform-minded forces in the country landed an official black mark in the annals of American history, the—as many advocates warn—egregious violation of his human and constitutional rights as the first U.S. citizen blown up in this manner earned police, themselves, a similarly notorious mark.

Obviously, the controversy doesn’t end with a model name—the drone isn’t the issue for most people outraged over its use; rather, the fact a citizen was bombed without so much as a nod of consideration for his human, civil, or constitutional rights that has people steamed.

As Daniel McAdams for the Ron Paul Institute keenly noted, following the now-apparent improvised and hasty decision by law enforcement to explode Johnson:

The media and opinion leaders are presenting us with a false choice: if we question the use of drones to kill Americans—even if we suspect they have done very bad things—we somehow do not care about the lives of police officers. That is not the case. It is perfectly possible to not want police officers to be killed in the line of duty but to wholeheartedly reject the idea of authorities using drones to remotely kill Americans before they are found guilty.

Noting police originally suspected a different person altogether of perpetrating the attacks, McAdams implored the country to consider the ramifications of setting such a precedent—and, considering the disclosure of the nearly impromptu decision to use this drone, that warning should be an imperative.

Perhaps we all need to familiarize ourselves with this drone’s mechanics now that this dystopic precedent has been set.

Manufactured by the military-industrial complex’s darling, Northrop Grumman, this tactical robot “is driven by a human via remote control, weighs 790 pounds and has a top speed of 3.5 mph,” as the Washington Post described. “It carries a camera with a 26x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom. When its arm is fully extended, it can lift a 60-pound weight. The ‘hand’ at the end of the arm can apply a grip of about 50 pounds of force.”

Interestingly enough, the $151,000 tactical robot provided a far more life-affirming service just one year ago.

According to Metro UK, the same model once assisted the California Highway Patrol when negotiations with a man threatening to kill himself by jumping from a San Jose overpass failed—by delivering a pizza.

Technological advancement, though overwhelmingly positive, is only as beneficent as those who put it to use—and how they choose to employ it.

In just one year, a pizza-delivering robot with the potential to save human life during bomb threats or similar situations became a casually-deployed, due process-stripping weapon of war against a U.S. citizen.

It would be prudent we take more than just a minute to critically consider that.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bam; boom; micahjohnson; police; robot; texas
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To: IamConservative

YEah, apparently its ok when obola does it.


61 posted on 07/13/2016 10:28:06 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Ya, a bit of sarcasm there. It’s what the liberal snowflakes cry whenever some miscreant is gunned down by a cop.


62 posted on 07/13/2016 10:31:43 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: b4its2late

Good Job !!


63 posted on 07/13/2016 10:33:52 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

KOOL


64 posted on 07/13/2016 10:36:28 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: b4its2late

During the negotiations they told the suspect they were sending him some food as a show of good faith. They put the C-4 in a Burger King bag.


65 posted on 07/13/2016 10:36:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Donglalinger

LOL


66 posted on 07/13/2016 10:36:55 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kevin in California

YEP


67 posted on 07/13/2016 10:37:24 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: b4its2late
In just one year, a pizza-delivering robot with the potential to save human life during bomb threats or similar situations became a casually-deployed, due process-stripping weapon of war against a U.S. citizen.

There's no such right to due process when you're currently in the commission of a felony. That occurs only after the fact, and they want to arrest, charge, and imprison/execute you for that. While you're in the active commission of a crime, all bets are off.

68 posted on 07/13/2016 10:39:52 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: Donglalinger

“May the good Lord take a liking to you and blow you up real soon!”


69 posted on 07/13/2016 10:41:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws

Seriously. Having a sniper pump a round into his head is different from this HOW exactly?


70 posted on 07/13/2016 10:43:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Paladin2

Nah, that’s not trans, that’s just fat, lazy and ugly.


71 posted on 07/13/2016 10:44:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Hoffer Rand

Great Goodkind quote.


72 posted on 07/13/2016 10:44:24 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: b4its2late

Idiots don’t understand technology. The decision was made by a person. Using a robot was no different than using a rifle. Both are just tools.

The real issue is about letting a drone make the decision. That is not what happened here.


73 posted on 07/13/2016 10:47:18 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: b4its2late

Huh?!

What do these people use for brains? He was given numerous chances to surrender. After 5 dead, no police officer should be required to unnecessarily risk so much as a scratched finger.

He had more “due process” than was actually warranted. Snipers from the SWAT team should have been sent in, and covered his spot with lead.


74 posted on 07/13/2016 10:47:22 AM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

It is a change of tactics and perps will change their behavior. Hopefully it will reduce casualties by forcing more cornered perps to surrender,but they likewise be reluctant to give up hostages.


75 posted on 07/13/2016 10:50:40 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: b4its2late

I guess Claire’s history lessons didn’t include the MOVE precedent. Wilson Goode, the first black mayor of Philadelphia, set a whole neighborhood on fire to take out the Africa family.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html?pagewanted=all


76 posted on 07/13/2016 10:50:48 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: Radix

bump


77 posted on 07/13/2016 10:54:27 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: b4its2late

blm wants to know the color of the robot....


79 posted on 07/13/2016 10:57:15 AM PDT by rolling_stone (our founders are rolling over in their graves, and yelling 2nd amendment when all else fails)
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To: dragnet2
>>>> During the negotiations they told the suspect they were sending him some food as a show of good faith. They put the C-4 in a Burger King bag. <<<<

That was a joke, right?

80 posted on 07/13/2016 10:57:18 AM PDT by 7MMmag ( Greetings from Mad Mohamed' ---Aloha Fubar!--- (now submit to me and my posse, or die!))
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