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I've been listening to the debates about torcher and in my opinion, it isn't something

to debate. It's just wrong! The end. To debate something is to admit there might be

two sides. Something that saddens and frightens me more than torcher is our military's indiscriminate use of drones. Drones of all kinds. I'm a big fan of the

"Terminator" series of film and I've got to say, fear of unmanned machines has

seeped into my psyche bigtime. I don't believe my fear is unfounded. When looking

at war through the ages, I believe the bravest of all fighters were the ones that went

toe to toe with swords. When guns were invented, even cowards could feel braver.

When airplanes came along and they started dropping bombs from the air, it

represented the lowest point in world history for cowardly acts. Bombing

indiscriminately is atrocious human behavior as are land mines. But this drone thing

is a different level of insanity. A drone aircraft wiped out an entire wedding party in

Afghanistan. And now, word is, that the Pakistanis and Afghanis don't care for us at

all because of these drones. Can you blame them?

I was just reading where the North Little Rock police got duped into buying unmanned,

small helicopters at the cost of $60,000 a piece. The first trip out the of the box, one of

those things went haywire and crashed. Not to worry though, it had a manufacturer’s

warranty. Well, that makes me feel better. Now what do they think these things are good

for? Crowd control! What a pipe dream that is. What if they crashed into a passing car

and make the driver wreck and kill 15 people in a traffic pileup. That's one $60,000 toy

that could cost the city millions in liability claims. I don't see how they can do anything

but cause trouble. So what if in the middle of a concert of say 10,000 kids, they saw a

boy smoking a joint. Are they going to rush through the crowd in hopes of getting there

before the joint is gone? Are they going to trample innocent masses in the process. I

just don't buy any of the reasons for needing these drones. It's just another ploy to steal

taxpayer's money. Drones and RFID chips and worthless pee tests. When will be have

enough of the theft of our money.

Hopefully, there will be a uprising against the use of drones but so far, I haven't heard

a peep. Please don't sit on your butts waiting for drones to fly through your

neighborhood before you protest this outrageous expense. I'd hate to have to go

Sarah Connor on your ass, or is that Sarah Palin?

Namaste!