Do you support Drone warfare or not?

[scarletwoman]

44. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I oppose ALL drone warfare, period.

You know, China vehemently condemns all activism on behalf of Tibetan sovereignty, and violently suppresses all pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests.

Now, suppose China declares all activists who agitate on behalf of Tibet to be "terrorists". I belong to the "Free Tibet" mailing list - I send them money, I sign petitions, I've attended protest rallies condemning China's occupation of Tibet. So, in the eyes of the Chinese government, I would be an anti-China "terrorist".

If China was as commited to drone warfare as the U.S. is, it would mean that they would consider themselves perfectly justified in tracking down my home address and sending a drone to drop a bomb on my house, in the name of their "war on terrorism". China wouldn't be declaring war on the U.S., they would just be declaring war on "terrorists" like me, who signed up on the Free Tibet email list.

And if the bomb dropped by a drone on my house happened to take out my neighbors, too - well, that's just collateral damage.

Do folks find that scenario outrageous? So do I. Just as outrageous as the U.S. government using drones to drop bombs on citizens of countries with whom we are not "officially" at war.

I am sick of my country's government dropping death from the skies all over the world, wherever they please. It's been going on all my life (born in 1949) - I will NEVER be okay with it.

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