Armed Robots To Patrol Iraqi Streets

[Ravenseye]

Ok. Not quite yet.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05042/456138.stm

The question I have is would your feelings change about Iraq if the americans involved were all in say Tampa Bay remotely piloting killer robot drones with mounted weaponry.

How freaking scary would it be to have your streets patrolled by armed robots?

How long until this is a reality? Till people's doors are knocked down by remote controled, or even scarier...AI controlled robots, instead of humans?

[ClintonTyree]

1. Ahhhhhhhnold is going to Iraq?

"The Terminator".............ya, he vould take care of dose insuhgents. Dey would taste dee lead from mine "Freedom Machine". Dat is ahhl. You may continue wit your reading.

[Ravenseye]

3. Yes but it's not a laughing matter is it?

They're talking about making HUNDREDS of these things. THey won't be predator drones high above, they'll be ON THE STREETS and they'll be armed.

Is that something to laugh about? More force projection on innocent people with even less risk to our troops?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

16. Please send him nt

[neweurope]

2. Coming soon to a theater near you...

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Ravenseye]

4. No Coming To a street near you

If they work what's to stop them from using these drones in more places than iraq. they could produce them like cars. They could be everywhere. They don't have to worry about the draft, just make more robots.

What's to stop them from using them on our own streets to 'patrol'?

[maddiejoan]

5. Johnny 5 is Alive!!

[Ravenseye]

6. Imagine that Picture with an M-60 on it

pointed right at you...A staticy voice comes over a speaker system as the eyes focus on your, you hear the whirring and see it's 'pupils' dilate. The gun levels at your chest, and the voice says "Halt, don't move. Identify yourself."

Very cute huh?

[newyawker99]

13. Hi maddiejoan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[neweurope]

10. They will be using them on your streets; I'm convinced of it. And

sooner or later in OUR streets, too.

:scared:

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Nomad559]

7. What if ...

Tetra

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Tetra

[Ravenseye]

9. If you think that's far in the future

I'd bet you're wrong. That's what it will come to. I think the biggest problem would be power source.

[Stop_the_War]

11. OH MY GOD!!! That video is really scary....

[Jack_DeLeon]

15. neat video...

yeah I know its fake but its cool none the less.

[htuttle]

8. By. Your. Command.

This, like outsourcing military services, is meant to reduce the political cost of war so that the government can engage in more wars that the people wouldn't support if fought by their children.

[Ravenseye]

12. How long?

if we head this technology how long before they put them all over the place. Notice as an asidse that the people getting patrolled are never in nice neighborhoods. Only poor ones. How long before they'd be use to patrol the new american shanty towns caused by the neoconservative adgenda?

[LynnTheDem]

14. BBC; US plans 'robot troops' for Iraq (pic)

The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.

Eighteen of the 1m-high (1 yard) robots, equipped with cameras and operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this spring, the Associated Press reports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4199935.stm

Great for American crowd control.