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Should an armed drone be dispatched to kill Christopher Dorner?
The Manchester Guardian ^ | February 11, 2013 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 02/11/2013 2:12:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now is this a great Idea or what?The damn police have already seriously injured drivers and others in vehicles that had nothing to do with dorner .I can only imagine how many people would be killed in a drone strike.

These people had better wake up before more innocent civilians are murdered by law enforcement agencies.


21 posted on 02/11/2013 2:37:28 PM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the article is missing the obvious, the nation needs super boy to zoom out of the white house and bring him down just like he did with OBL.


22 posted on 02/11/2013 2:40:19 PM PST by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Uncle Chip

“It probably already is —with no results to date —that we know of.”

What if his truck was already hit by a drone and this “manhunt” is just a coverup for us and lower level cops?


23 posted on 02/11/2013 2:41:24 PM PST by varyouga
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No.

I had dream as a child of being attacked from above like this.

Maybe it was a vision of my end.

Our info is on Jim Robinson’s servers.

We are all potential targets.

Its very foolish to believe we are not or never will be.


24 posted on 02/11/2013 2:45:19 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The UK. Shades of what they were in the 1940’s I guess.

From what I’ve been able to gather, the average joe is pretty safe from Dorner, it’s the LAPD that’s worried.

As such, the only terrorists about town are trigger-happy LAPD officers shooting any blue truck that moves, regardless of the make/model.

Now you want to allow the LAPD to use DRONES? How many casualties have the LAPD rung up so far chasing this guy down? Now you want to try that with hellfire missiles?

Oh, and then there’s the matter of the birdcage liner we use to underpin the entire US system of government called the Constitution. “We just have to suspend the 1st, 4th, 5th Amendments for the kids, you see. This bad, BLACK man, who one time returned a bag of money to a Korean church, is lurking your neighborhood stalking innocent children.”

I think the LAPD should go French and call a truce with this guy and discuss terms. Now that’s something you can DEFINITELY do for the safety of innocent children, or innocent newspaper delivery people at least.


25 posted on 02/11/2013 2:47:52 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hell no. The LAPD will kill the wrong person or persons and blow up their vehicle or home.
Let the LAPD take their chances with the b@st@rd. After all, we “civilians” certainly have to.


26 posted on 02/11/2013 2:48:20 PM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’ll have to remember to quote you. Hat tip for TX.


27 posted on 02/11/2013 2:48:34 PM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Should an armed drone be dispatched to kill Christopher Dorner?

What a stupidass question..........Let's create additional controversy since there's no other news to report on Dorner.

28 posted on 02/11/2013 2:49:31 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: varyouga

Now that’s outside the box, v. Good comment.


29 posted on 02/11/2013 3:08:29 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Little Ray

30 posted on 02/11/2013 3:11:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Hot Tabasco

It use to be a stupid question.


31 posted on 02/11/2013 3:11:36 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just on the basis of cost alone, it strikes me as a ridiculous idea and, imo, anyone who launches a Hellfire in Dorner's direction owes the taxpayers $250,000, per, because isn't that how much a Hellfire missile costs?

Hellfires should be viewed strictly as a weapon of war, not to be used against common criminals for the same reason posse comitatus forbids using military personnel to enforce state law, even if some deluded common criminal declares that he is at war. In fact, it is not a war but a matter for law enforcement.

Otherwise, what might they do when a small group of taxpayers seize a port and dump tea in the harbor and police decide that the malcontents are so well dispersed in and around the facility that Hellfires won't work? Nuke the place?

32 posted on 02/11/2013 3:19:57 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Slump Tester

I wonder. If I was Charles Dorner and the government announced that they had killed me in a drone strike I think I’d run with the opportunity and disappear.


33 posted on 02/11/2013 3:38:13 PM PST by MeganC (Liberals fool people by walking upright.)
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To: MeganC

“If the government uses a drone to kill Dorner then what’s next? Drone strikes on the next Waco compound? Drone strikes on the Hutaree or anyone else flying a Gadsden flag?”

The kind of “mission creep” that led to drone “signature strikes” on unidentified persons merely exhibiting suspicious patterns of behavior could lead one to anticipate promiscuous use of killer drones.

The drivers of trucks merely resembling the perp’s that were shot up with little warning makes one grimace thinking about how many “collateral casualties” there might have been in the search for this guy so far if killer drones had been available.


34 posted on 02/11/2013 3:39:44 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would expect that there is already a secret POTUS directive authorizing killer drones to be used in defense of VIPS including POTUS on US soil and that such drones are likely to be frequently flying cap over POTUS, possibly augmented by ARGUS.


35 posted on 02/11/2013 3:42:44 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Should an armed drone be dispatched to kill Christopher Dorner?

Absolutely insane.

It's one thing to use it in a war zone. A completely different thing in a domestic police action.

We've already seen an extreme case of police incompetence here. What's next? Use a machine to remotely slaughter innocents who have been erroneously identified as suspects? Don't blame me, it was the drone?!?

Who put such idiots in charge of the courts and juries in matters of the law, life and death? They are as bad as dorner, IMHO.

They did NOT have positive ID on the innocents who they attempted to blow away in the past few days. So now they want to utilize a vehicle of war to do their dirty work?

Deploy the drones to monitor the officers in pursuit and video tape their actions to ensure they are executing the law, not innocent civilians.

36 posted on 02/11/2013 3:48:43 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Billthedrill

DEAL! Especially because it seems we never see these politicians go on trial...


37 posted on 02/11/2013 3:49:13 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Pray for revival. <BCC><)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s a threat to those in government so to hell with the judicial process, kill him with drones and missiles...


38 posted on 02/11/2013 4:00:11 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why don't we just let the LAPD continue shooting up every make, model and color of pickup truck in California until they maybe get Dorner?

dorner newspaper shoot pickup cops lapd

lapd wrong pickup shoot ladies truck

Now those Bozos want to use drones...
drone chris dorner lapd mistake find

39 posted on 02/11/2013 4:01:20 PM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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He's a threat to those in government so to hell with the judicial process, kill him with drones and missiles...

Please don't shoot T-shirts selling like hot cakes.

40 posted on 02/11/2013 4:06:09 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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