Posted on 09/17/2024 12:48:07 PM PDT by Signalman
It’s the same battery type, which you said cannot explode.
Obviously, you were wrong.
They use voice recognition. Learn reality.
War is Hell. Don’t start one and you won’t have to worry about civilian casualties.
Personally I’d have waited until dinner time before setting them off. Blow the terrorists up right in front of their families. Hopefully you’d get a few of them, too.
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He’s been defending the Hezzies all afternoon. Best to ignore.
These were pagers issued to Hezbollah by Iran. According to Amir Tsarfati on Telegram.
That's not a hypothetical. In New York City, the cops will fire at a fare beater, shooting innocent bystanders and even shooting one of their own cops. Just because they do it, it doesn't make it right. From two days ago:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nypd-shooting-brooklyn-subway-stop/5797716/
"The officers, which [Chief of Department Jeffrey] Maddrey confirmed were the only ones to shoot, also struck two bystanders and one of the two cops. A female victim was grazed and a male was struck in the head. The injured officer was hit underneath his armpit, just missing the bulletproof vest, Maddrey explained."
Your scenario is not comparable because the officer spotted a known suspect. In this case, the targeters just detonated bombs they figured suspects might be holding, not caring who might be holding them and who might be nearby.
Yeah, Democrats said the same thing about 9/11: Somebody did something.
I think it was me who said it could not explode.
I guess what I meant was a lithium battery as small as one would find in a pager would not likely result in an explosion like we’ve seen in the videos today. Merely suggesting implanted explosives are far more likely in this case.
It wasn't a phone, it was a pager, and there was no guarantee that the person holding the pager was the intended target nor where they were standing when it detonated. Remember that the next time you're on an airplane at 35,000 feet. "I mean it's all good as long as we thought the guy who was holding the device was a baddie."
As far as calling me a liberal, that's you with your collective targeting. As a conservative, I believe in individual rights.
Learn reality?
Reality is that it was an old-school pager, not a phone with a voice-recognition app.
So... civilians in the United States are viable targets due to the wars our corrupt government has started overseas? Got it. Good to know how you stand in a Free Republic.
That is very possible. I could see a small heat sensitive explosive being used.
But batteries have a lot of potential energy. An iPhone battery holds the same amount of energy as a grenade, for example.
Gonna be tough to get anyone left to use the replacement pagers. I wonder if the warranty is still good.
Those detonating explosives while knowingly refusing to ensure the targets were not innocent would be charged with the same crime.
First, that’s nuts.
Second, who cares? No innocents hang with terrorist murderers.
That’s not true.
That's their claim, and now you use it?
You should tell HA you mistakenly called him out.
> In this case, the targeters just detonated bombs they figured suspects might be holding, not caring who might be holding them and who might be nearby. <
That argument is, I think, a little weak. It would be stronger if the Mossad had just randomly placed rigged cell phones into known terrorist areas, then hoped a bad guy would pick one up.
Instead, it looked like they knew who they were dealing with. Just as the cop in my hypothetical knew who he was dealing with.
Furthermore, I can’t see how you know the Mossad (or whomever it was) was “not caring” about who was nearby. Maybe they did care, as killing civilians is bad for Israel’s reputation if nothing else. More likely the Mossad made a judgment call, just as my hypothetical police officer must.
I am not unsympathetic to your point of view. It’s crap when innocents get killed, whether it’s in a war situation or a police shoot-out.
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