"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Drones and US Internal Security
"It's a pretty slippery slope from here . . . US practice we see at work in Pakistan will eventually become common place in Mexico, Central America, and Northern Africa . . . more interesting answer is how it gets applied to US internal security when the US/global economy crumps into depression, the US government goes bankrupt, and the current system loses much of its remaining legitimacy."
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