BOB KLAHN wrote to DRACO VON HAGEN:   
      
    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.   
      
    BK>  Do you have any evidence of that?   
      
   Texas: http://tinyurl.com/cf7ouk3   
      
    BK>  I doubt they are patrolling the Canadian border, it's too porous   
    BK> anyway to justify it.   
      
   Canada: http://tinyurl.com/7we8jhl   
      
    BK> I doubt they are patrolling the Mexican border, simply because of   
    BK>  politics.   
      
   Mexico: http://tinyurl.com/cf7ouk3   
      
    BK>  Unarmed drones I can believe,   
      
   You contradict yourself...first you claim that drones aren't patroling the   
   borders, then you reverse that with the above.   
      
    BK>  I doubt they are armed.   
      
   That they're unarmed or armed is not public information. But you can doubt   
   all you want.   
      
    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.   
      
    BK>  Hmmm... let's contact somebody to suggest that. Wait a minute...   
    BK>  how much Jazz will we lose that way? Lot's of Cajun Jazz I   
    BK>  believe. Gotta conduct a study.   
      
   There's more to the picture than Cajun Jazz. Swamp land is useless,   
   unless you have a desire to hide from the authorities...   
      
    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.   
      
    BK>  The machine gunner? The drone is the death sentence.   
      
   Well, let's look at it from a military point of view. Did the machine   
   gunner have permission from on-high or did he take it upon himself to   
   shoot? I suspect that the latter is true, since there is no standing order   
   to shoot first and ask questions later.   
      
    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?   
      
    BK>  Exactly.   
      
    BK>  BTW, Is Draco Von Hagen your name? Unusual for the US.   
      
   Do I  have to be a USAian to post here?   
      
      
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