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Decision to Blow up US Citizen With Robot Was Improvised in Less Than 20 Minutes
Activist Post Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program ^ | July 13, 2016 | By Claire Bernish

Posted on 07/13/2016 9:49:10 AM PDT by b4its2late

A hotly-contested decision by law enforcement to use a drone robot to blow up a U.S. citizen, who allegedly carried out the murders of five police officers in Dallas, just got exponentially more controversial—because, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown, the “whole idea was improvised in about 15 to 20 minutes.”

Already igniting fury around the country for neglecting any semblance of due process, the use of the “Remotec model F-5” to deliver a pound of C-4 explosive to decimate suspected shooter Micah Xavier Johnson as he targeted police in a sniper-style attack, has been revealed by the police chief as a hastily-plotted … whim.

Brown’s disturbing offhand comment came during a press conference in which the model of the “mechanical tactical drone”—clarified as the “Remotec Andros Mark V-A1″—was finally made public, in an apparent attempt to quell constitutional rights’ advocates ire over the unprecedented move by police.

While Johnson’s cold-blooded attack on random police officers in one of the most progressive and reform-minded forces in the country landed an official black mark in the annals of American history, the—as many advocates warn—egregious violation of his human and constitutional rights as the first U.S. citizen blown up in this manner earned police, themselves, a similarly notorious mark.

Obviously, the controversy doesn’t end with a model name—the drone isn’t the issue for most people outraged over its use; rather, the fact a citizen was bombed without so much as a nod of consideration for his human, civil, or constitutional rights that has people steamed.

As Daniel McAdams for the Ron Paul Institute keenly noted, following the now-apparent improvised and hasty decision by law enforcement to explode Johnson:

The media and opinion leaders are presenting us with a false choice: if we question the use of drones to kill Americans—even if we suspect they have done very bad things—we somehow do not care about the lives of police officers. That is not the case. It is perfectly possible to not want police officers to be killed in the line of duty but to wholeheartedly reject the idea of authorities using drones to remotely kill Americans before they are found guilty.

Noting police originally suspected a different person altogether of perpetrating the attacks, McAdams implored the country to consider the ramifications of setting such a precedent—and, considering the disclosure of the nearly impromptu decision to use this drone, that warning should be an imperative.

Perhaps we all need to familiarize ourselves with this drone’s mechanics now that this dystopic precedent has been set.

Manufactured by the military-industrial complex’s darling, Northrop Grumman, this tactical robot “is driven by a human via remote control, weighs 790 pounds and has a top speed of 3.5 mph,” as the Washington Post described. “It carries a camera with a 26x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom. When its arm is fully extended, it can lift a 60-pound weight. The ‘hand’ at the end of the arm can apply a grip of about 50 pounds of force.”

Interestingly enough, the $151,000 tactical robot provided a far more life-affirming service just one year ago.

According to Metro UK, the same model once assisted the California Highway Patrol when negotiations with a man threatening to kill himself by jumping from a San Jose overpass failed—by delivering a pizza.

Technological advancement, though overwhelmingly positive, is only as beneficent as those who put it to use—and how they choose to employ it.

In just one year, a pizza-delivering robot with the potential to save human life during bomb threats or similar situations became a casually-deployed, due process-stripping weapon of war against a U.S. citizen.

It would be prudent we take more than just a minute to critically consider that.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bam; boom; micahjohnson; police; robot; texas
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To: Gadsden1st

It was a fully automatic assault robot! Oh noes; we’re all gonna die!


121 posted on 07/13/2016 2:44:38 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: b4its2late

122 posted on 07/13/2016 2:48:56 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Rinnwald

Three minutes? 45 seconds, tops. There were a lot of cops involved.


123 posted on 07/13/2016 3:47:53 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: b4its2late
"...the use of the “Remotec model F-5” to deliver a pound of C-4 explosive to decimate suspected shooter Micah Xavier Johnson as he targeted police in a sniper-style attack..."

well, if the plan was to only kill 1/10th of him, it failed...

124 posted on 07/13/2016 5:34:22 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: b4its2late

Liberal idiots again attacking the weapon rather than the action.


125 posted on 07/13/2016 6:52:40 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: b4its2late

Too many have been influenced by Mighty Mouse cartoons where dispicable evil beings have been allowed to escape, regroup, and return to kill innocents time and time again as if it were an afternoon sports event with rules and referees. But none of these Monday morning quarterbacks have posited a viable alternative.


126 posted on 07/14/2016 4:52:52 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: b4its2late

moral...... don’t bring an old rifle to a robot fight


127 posted on 07/14/2016 4:59:24 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: bert

LOL... Yep


128 posted on 07/14/2016 5:58:49 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Real Cynic No More

Yep. Standard.


129 posted on 07/14/2016 6:26:58 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: b4its2late

Mission Accomplished.


130 posted on 07/14/2016 6:27:34 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: b4its2late

Decimated?

He’s only 10% dead?


131 posted on 07/14/2016 12:16:03 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Decimated?

He’s only 10% dead?


More like 10 pieces.


132 posted on 07/14/2016 12:18:18 PM PDT by Zeneta
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