Free Talk Live - drones

Rand Paul Suddenly Okay with Domestic Drone Strikes

DrewJaye — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:20:58 +0000

Remember when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stood up on the Senate floor for nearly 13 hours in an ideological protest of the Obama administration’s hypothetical authority to use drone technology to kill U.S. citizens on American soil? Well, now he’s saying killing a certain U.S. citizen on some specific American soil in Watertown, Massachusetts last Friday may not have been the worst thing in the world.

UK stripping terrorism suspects of citizenship

Jking8767 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:22:39 +0000

From the UK, more fodder for the debate over the US drone assassination campaign and the acceptability of killing citizens: In early February, a leaked white paper from the Obama Justice Department caused a small stir, because it laid out an expansive set of circumstances under which the president could order a citizen killed abroad. In September 2011, the US killed Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, both US citizens, and a few weeks later a US drone strike in Yemen also killed Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman.

Broad Coalition Releases Anti Drone Initiative.

muslimsforliberty — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:15:20 +0000

In conjunction with The Williamsport Tea Party, AntiWar.com, Silver Circle, Defending Dissent Foundation, The Florida Tenth Amendment Center, United National Antiwar Coalition, Restore the Republic, WESPAC Foundation, The Libertarian Review, Peace Action New York State, LibertyCandidates.com, Vote Nobody, Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drone and End the Wars, Guardians of the Constitution, and the International Action Center; Muslims for Liberty is proud to announce the Clear Skies Initiative

Did We Just Kill a Kid?: A Drone Operator’s Story

Deslock Darkstar — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:26:57 +0000

Bryant saw a flash on the screen: the explosion. Parts of the building collapsed. The child had disappeared. Bryant had a sick feeling in his stomach. “Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the man sitting next to him. “Yeah, I guess that was a kid,” the pilot replied. “Was that a kid?” they wrote into a chat window on the monitor. Then, someone they didn’t know answered, someone sitting in a military command center somewhere in the world who had observed their attack. “No. That was a dog,” the person wrote. They reviewed the scene on video. A dog on two legs?

CNN: Drone Strikes ineffective and disastrous for civilians.

JamesButabi — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:09:03 +0000

Only 2% of deaths high level targets according to Stanford Law / NYU Study. Cites entire regions of civilians living in fear of death from the skies from the USA.

Apple rejects app that reports US drone strikes.

thekeychainkid — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:06:04 +0000

"It’s the third time in a month that Apple has turned Drones+ away, says Josh Begley, the program’s New York-based developer. The company’s reasons for keeping the program out of the App Store keep shifting. First, Apple called the bare-bones application that aggregates news of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia “not useful.” Then there was an issue with hiding a corporate logo. And now, there’s this crude content problem."