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by trompetenaccoun 1297 days ago
It's illegal abroad as well. His two children were also killed in separate drone strikes, the younger one was only 8 years old and a US citizen as well. Where's the legality here, come on! I'm not an expert in American law but doubt you'll find justification for that in any legal texts.

The thing is: What could ordinary citizens do about it? The government isn't going to investigate itself, especially not a popular president that wasn't even under much pressure to do so. He brought so much change, just not the good kind: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Graph_of...

If you give the police certain powers, they're guaranteed to be abused at some point. Individual officers can be held accountable but what if the robot malfunctions? Killer bots are more than a slippery slope, they're a giant pandora's crate that should never be opened.