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Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You<\/a><\/p>\n

It will be a consolation to the innocent men, women and children we murder <\/a>that they are not being slaughtered in a James Cameron flick that fat, dumb and happy suburban Americans\u2013who can\u2019t unplug from their video games long enough to cope with the real world\u2013fret about in their fantasy bubble of unreality. Rather, these innocents are, like rather a lot of innocents on our soil,\u00a0being murdered by real human beings committing grave sins whose matter is worthy of the everlasting fires of hell (though God alone can judge their culpability).<\/p>\n

I know *my* big fear is of some fictional Skynet becoming self-aware and commencing the Robot Apocalypse, not of some repeated-countless-times-in-history silly unrealistic fear of a completely unaccountable Executive with a secret kill list murdering civilians while\u00a0 a compliant press and spaniel-like party apparatchiks look the other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.\u201d \u2013 His Imperial Highness Barack Obama, speaking with a straight face to his subjects.<\/p>\n

Of course, even though His Majesty has already unilaterally ordered the murder of an American citizen on the basis of his secret, unilateral will alone and without arrest, trial, judge, jury or verdict, we can *of course* be assured that he will only have citizens killed if they are Really Bad[TM] and if they are on foreign soil.\u00a0 It would never *occur* to the State to think, \u201cYou know, there are bad people right here on our soil who just need killin\u2019 and the whole \u201cdue process\u201d think just slows everything down!\u201d\u00a0 So rest assured that the People\u2019s Democratic National Security State of Heaven will never use drones, secret arrests, indefinite detainment or assassins to simply kill or disappear critics of the Anointed in our Ruling Class on our soil.\u00a0 It\u2019s all to Keep\u00a0You Safe.\u00a0 So feel safe, or you may be an enemy of the State.<\/p>\n

Oh sure, the *Republicans* might do such a horrible thing<\/a>, but the Obama Administration is Truly Enlightened and filled with the Best and Brightest, so when they murder people (including citizens), you can be sure that person needed murdered\u2013even the women, children, funeral goers and rescue workers picking up body parts from the previous drone strike.\u00a0 As it more or less says in the Good Book, \u201cIf these people were guilty, we would not be putting them to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, America, continue worrying about Skynet, zombies and vampires.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"