While I share your concern about governmental overreach, I would not call that incident a "murder." If I had to make the call to do the same, I would send the robot before I sent officers into a dangerous situation. Maybe they could wait him out, but that would still present danger to the officers. That said, if I were president I would almost never send troops into an area where I could bomb it from afar. My soldier's life is worth more than a large amount of collateral damage. I imagine I am strange in how I would approach that...but the world would fear me, which generally works out pretty well for us.srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:39 am We have already launched at least one drone strike on Texas soil against an American citizen and most people applauded the action. I would like to point out that while we tend to think of drones as robot aircraft, they are not robots but just remote controlled by humans. If we properly define it as remote controlled vehicles, Dallas PD used a remote controlled robot carrying a bomb to kill a citizen in a fortified position in a parking garage. I agree that he was a criminal shooting at police and others, but does it justify the murder like that?
Perhaps the overreach question that we disagree on is the initial decision to kill the individual. I agree that we would all be wise to be cautious on how we allow the government making that call. For me, if a guy goes on a killing spree (whether it is officers or citizens) and is still active, take him out.
Back on point--we are clearly living in a system with Oligarchical control from a "cabal" (Time's word) of government/company entities. I am almost of the mind that we cannot beat it at the national level. We should be able to create state laws that grant stronger protections against suppression of speech from big tech. Gov Desantis of Florida has introduced some good measures--e.g. fining social media for deplatforming anyone up for election in FL. I would go further to pass a state law that defines social media sites as "traditional public forums." We also need to elect people that are willing to require Texas to be a "sanctuary state" when it comes to 2A restrictions, mandates on insane education requirements, etc.
I continue to thank God that I live among Texans.