DVH> Lee Lofaso wrote to BOB KLAHN:   
      
    LL>> The use of armed drones inside this country should be very rare.   
    LL>> Only in cases of absolute national security.   
      
    DVH> Armed drones are patrolling the USA - Mexico border.   
    DVH> They're also deployed on the Canadian border.   
      
    Do you have any evidence of that? I doubt they are patrolling   
    the Canadian border, it's too porous anyway to justify it. I   
    doubt they are patrolling the Mexican border, simply because of   
    politics.   
      
    Unarmed drones I can believe, I doubt they are armed.   
      
    BK>>> They do have justification for training.   
      
    LL>> Where will we drop the bombs?  We no longer use Hawai'i or Puerto   
    LL>> Rico as a testing site.  Too many natives objected.  And Alaska is   
    LL>> far too cold for any serious bombing.  Especially since those nasty   
    LL>> environmentalists would throw a fit.  Maybe the governor of Ohio   
    LL>> might lease out some land for that purpose.   
      
    DVH> The only place left to bomb is the state of   
    DVH> Louisiana...especially the Cajun infested swamp lands.   
      
    Hmmm... let's contact somebody to suggest that. Wait a minute...   
    how much Jazz will we lose that way? Lot's of Cajun Jazz I   
    believe. Gotta conduct a study.   
      
    BF>>> However, I would add, if I was flying an armed drone, and   
    BF>>> spotted you sitting on a hill above a town, with a machine gun,   
    BF>>> firing at the people in the town, I would fire the missile at   
    BF>>> you.   
      
    DVH> He would then be in violation of Section 18 US Code and   
    DVH> would receive a sentence of death for the above action.   
      
    The machine gunner? The drone is the death sentence.   
      
    LL>> It depends on what people.  If the people he was firing at were   
    LL>> al-Qaeda terrorists, it might be best to wipe out the town rather   
    LL>> than the person taking potshots at them with a rifle.   
      
    DVH> How do you know who is who? And where did the rifle enter   
    DVH> the picture?   
      
    Exactly.   
      
    BTW, Is Draco Von Hagen your name? Unusual for the US.   
      
    Welcome.   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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