Friends, I was just having a nice dinner, you know some BBQ steak with some veggies and a glass of wine or two, when suddenly it hit me. America, potentially, can control the whole world with pilot-less drones!
You laugh. Scoff at your peril! First look carefully at the photograph. Do you see the absence of cockpit? This means no humans are on board. Do you notice the recording nodule placed under where the normal cockpit would be. This nodule beams back to command headquarters everything the drone sees as it passes silently overhead. Men monitor the pictures, men who are trained to note every detail, to ferret out anything that might be a potential threat to America.
America is already using drones in Iraq, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in Yemen and who knows what other countries. Did you know that drones can weigh as little as 6.5 kilos up to over a 1000? They cruise at between 80 to 100 mph and can travel up to 760 kilometres and, importantly, are continuously being improved.
Did you also notice the missiles placed under either wing? In a nanosecond, those missiles can be launched and, with pinpoint accuracy, blow up a wedding party, a christening, a group of carol singers, a meeting of union officials, a political protest group, some terrorists in training, a commando group, an advancing military unit, etc.
Now the decision to launch such missiles often results in civilian deaths. They are not called corpses but ‘collateral damage’. So what! Humans are imperfect (especially when they’re blown up). Besides what’s a few Arab casualties, or Muslim casualties to many? Life is tough. You take your chances. I mean, the American authorities didn’t mean to kill innocent civilians including women and children, did they?
But don’t you see what I’m driving at?
America could potentially flood the skies of the world with armed drones and eradicate or intimidate many of its perceived enemies and even reluctant friends. And if the missiles were laced with nuclear materials, whole cities could be wiped out! For those of you who mock, remember the famous saying of George Bush: You’re either with us or against us!
Drones could also eradicate the brave handful of Americans who offer criticism of their Government. It would be a simple matter to introduce armed drones to its own country replacing the surveillance ones already in operation. This would allow Government agencies to get rid of protesters, get rid of opponents of the government, opponents of capitalism, opponents of institutionalized Christian and Jewish religions, Muslim sympathizers, etc, etc. You just have to say they are unpatriotic, a security threat, undesirables, whatever.
Friends, America could potentially exert control over the whole world from deep underground bunkers filled with television monitors that are connected to millions of nuclear-armed drones.
I have just been outside with my binoculars. I have scanned the sky. I feel sure there is a drone up there circling my home. If I don’t post anymore, you’ll know what happened.
DavidG, implacable enemy of Imperial, Militaristic, Capitalist, Bible-bashing, Right-wing America, has been droned!
P.S. Friends, I have tried to keep this post lighthearted. But, deep down inside, I feel disquiet, concern. Perhaps Big Brother may be closer than many people think. The drones may be coming.
Perhaps they’re already here!
hate to rain on your parade
they are developing all sorts of ‘interesting’ weapons. i used to keep them all in the google reader to post about but i got depressed. so i deleted them. yep- there’s also a rundown on the military channel on cable here in the states. yep- we have a military channel, sigh. microwave and sound waves are being tested right now- and it looked pretty scary to me. especially the sound stuff. you can’t do anything about it- and you can’t see it coming. so, at least someone has a fighting chance of shooting down a drone. i am hoping there will be a modicum of sanity about the white house and pentagon come january. it’s a thin hope.
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But Betmo, if you shoot down a nuclear-armed drone over your territory, you get two nuclear explosions wherever they land!
This is like shooting yourself in both feet!
Drones seem foolproof.
Cheers.
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I comprehend what you are talking about, David. In fact, I just finished listening to an audio of F.William Engdahl being interviewed by Alex Jones where he talks about documents that certain American war/economic planners conferred about nuking the entire world.
Furthermore, by the way, he points out in his book, and on the air, that Monsanto seeds are meant to kill billions. Check out who all is involved with Monsanto! Another day, another story, eh. His book is entitled SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION.
Drones, drones, and more drones gone wild, and who will stop these rogue governments? What is the matter with you men folks?
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And by the way, that statement about with us or against us was made by the crazed former mayor of Guiliani, who to the good credit of the Repubicans did not make it through the primaries, although he appeared to be the top runner. Even the Honorable Ron Paul bested him vote wise in some states, which congressman is probably as concerned as you are about the plans of the evil empire.
Thank you so much for the thought and images you are given us these last four days. Profound indeed! If there is a future for literate humans on earth,you will be remembered fondly.
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Weapons for the playstation generation. A brave soul sits miles away in safety and peers at a video screen like it was a real life game of Call of Duty 4 and decides whether to drop its bombs on the bunch of pixels he can see below.
As much as i don’t want to see anyone killed, it sure is a cowardly way to go about the business of killing people. The soldiers of the future will be picked from the Xbox and Playstation gamers of today.
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Right, like bombing all those wedding parties with “smart missiles.” Surely they didn’t mean to…Or did they?? Practice? My friend who is passed now had worked for our govt. (Btw, the system let him die too – they refused to treat his cancer unti it spread to his lymph and it was to late). He told me Vietnam was just one big weapons development lab. They went in with WWII era weapons and came out with developed biological and the beginnings of our high tech weaponry.
I am thoroughly convinced that 9/11/2001 was an inside job. They have nothing better than to monitor citizenry. We are their targets!
David, I hope things continue with the freedoms we have known. It is why I got so worried when several times my computer crashed just trying to get to this website, not any of the other sites! In fact, being the rebel I am, it made me more determined to post at your site.
Drones… how do you fight an enemy like that?
Peace on Earth. Good will toward all.
Grace
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Swan, what’s wrong with us men-folk indeed.
Too much testosterone!
Lucy, perhaps the T.V. games industry is actually run by the Military!
Grace, peace on earth: it appears to become more remote by the day. Then our masters don’t want peace! How will they achieve profit and power if there’s peace?
Cheers.
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My first comment will be very non controversial. I place it here to provide just a bit of good news.
Germany met its Kyoto treaty goals for emissions four years early.
My next comment will be perhaps a bit more interesting.
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Chess is an ancient game whose rules have not changed I imagine in a really really long time. i wonder if its rules were updated a little if it could capture back the market from some of the violent TV games. I would like to propose two potential rule variations.
Variation one: If on your move you could capture an opponents piece with a choice of 3 of your own pieces you would be allowed not only to take that piece from the board but to change the color of that piece to your own color and leave that piece exactly were it is.
Variation number two: If there are over a certain number of your opponents pieces, say 5 or 7 or 9, that you could remove with at least 3 of your own pieces, as stated in variation number 1, then you could change the color of one of those pieces by writing it on a piece of paper and placing it face down next to the board. That would constitute your move. At any time later in the game as another move you could turn that piece of paper over and reveal that it was actually on of your pieces and not your opponents piece. I find this rule change particularly interesting but a player could possibly deduce if one of his pieces has changed color by his opponents reaction to its position.
I think both of these rule changes would make pawns much more important in the game and increase the complexity of the game by a couple of levels.
Hmmm, The Pawns vs. The Drones sounds like the title of a movie that would be made in Hollywood and hundreds of millions of Americans would go to see it 3 or 4 times.
It would not surprise me if the US military would even use it as part of its basic training program.
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Oh one other small thing. BBQ steak should not be consumed with wine. It goes much better with Rum and Coke.
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