Posterity Will Hate Us: Building a Lasting Legacy of Death

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/chris-floyd/56127/posterity-will-hate-us-building-a-lasting-legacy-of-death

Posterity Will Hate Us: Building a Lasting Legacy of Death
by Chris Floyd | May 28, 2014 - 9:25am

What do we aim at? Houses! Who do we kill? Everyone inside the houses! What are their names? We don’t know! What did they do? We don’t know! Are they civilians? We don’t care!

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Some of these operations are carried out at the direct order of the president of the United States, who meets with his advisors every Tuesday to draw up death lists of victims to be killed. Others are slaughtered by the innumerable officers and agents upon whom the White House has bestowed a license to kill as they see fit.

But as the Bureau points out, even when the name of the target is known — although of course there is no need for any proof to be offered as to the target’s ostensible death-deserving guilt — they are most often blown to pieces in domestic homes, along with family members, friends and, often, neighbors who live nearby.

— Sometimes when I write paragraphs like the one above — setting out undisputed facts; indeed, facts that are often celebrated in the highest reaches of the political and media elites — I find myself slack-jawed, drop-jawed to the floor with amazement. The bare, banal, widely accepted, shrugged-off realities of life in the American Imperium today would have been regarded, just a few years ago, as the wildest, most unbelievable fantasies of political paranoids. The president sits in the White House and draws up death lists. Robot-controlled missiles blow up people’s houses, killing hundreds of civilians each year. Not an eyelid is batted, scarcely a voice is raised in protest, except on the far-flung disregarded margins. This is the way the world is, and one must acknowledge that — but sometimes, the cognitive dissonance hits you like a two-by-four upside the head.

[newfie11]

1. And God help the person that informs the public

Of inside info. Then you become a traitor and can look forward to possibly life behind bars.
I do not know this country any more. We are still killing people with drones and no sign of stopping. Be they innocent or not their still dead.
This is unleashing a monster we will never get back in the bottle. Think this technology won't come home to roost, think again.