The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129944   Message #2920058
Posted By: Lox
03-Jun-10 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Saddest news article.
Subject: RE: BS: Saddest news article.
I find my self on unfamiliar territory, being 100% in agreement with Ake, however he is right that this is an unforgivable crime.

Sending a Robot to murder an entire family and then claiming that it was somehow justified because one of them is an alleged criminal is nothing less than sickening.

I thought that we were the land of "innocent until proven guilty" and of fair trials etc.

Apparently this only applies within our own borders.

I agree that the right to life is the most fundamental human right, without which the others mean nothing.

But in fact I see this as being a prime example of why the principle of Basic Human rights for all is an essential principle.

It is the absence of a notion of equal human rights for all that allows the US and its cronies to get away with this kind of stuff.

It is the implied sense that the rights of that family and the lives of that family mean less than lives over here that is the problem.

Our government would not dare to undermine human rights so brazenly over here.

Instead they use more subtle means.

But in all cases its all about the right propaganda for the right circumstances.