This is Henry Bartle Frere's Statue on the Thames embankment. He was a great general according to British history. He would go on to become the Governor of Bombay and High Commissioner of South Africa.
Hasn't The West terrified the world enough?
This mess of Western Superiority has gone on for centuries and it is high time the people of these nations become disgusted with it all. At one point, British Society was convinced they were of superior intellect because their heads were bigger. The truth was their genetics demanded a larger hat size and they has perfected the practice of an educational system. We have all had enough of this mess and this is disgusting.
MoD study on attitudes to risk (click here)
Published time: September 27, 2013 01:05
Read the MoD document that formulates strategy for making British involvement in wars more palatable to the public
These machines and their use covertly to hide legalized killing by a nation's military is an immoral concept. It only goes to prove how The West, primarily the USA, believes the citizens of their nations can be manipulated to ignore the deaths of other peoples for the benefit of their own affairs. This is not about national security or sovereignty, this is about taking what does not belong to us and allowing the military to be judge and jury to APPROPRIATE deaths in the world.
This is completely disgusting and I won't be a part of it! My government WILL NOT treat me as a child that needs to be protected from reality and kill at will simply because they can.
Using more mercenaries, (click here) unmanned vehicles and elite forces could make the British public more willing to support future wars, given such losses do not rile the press as do deaths of regular soldiers, a strategic unit of the Ministry of Defence suggests.
In an internal discussion paper on how to sway “casualty averse” public opinion, the MoD development, concepts and doctrine centre (DCDC) also recommends lessening the public profile of repatriation ceremonies for war casualties.
The document, written in November 2012 and obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act, regards how public opinion of wartime casualties can be manipulated. It also recommends the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have “a clear and constant information campaign in order to influence the major areas of press and public opinion.”...
There has always been a clear division when permited killing occurs with democracies. They believe some people are deserving of death. It occurs when thinking about Death Row Inmates, the Detainees at Gitmo, POWs, War Criminals and the enemy. It is a disconnect between what will happen to a citizen and what will happen to 'the bad guy.' The clear indication is when war occurs and a voluntary military is seen as heroic at all costs, "So long as it is someone else's family member" that has been killed in the heat of battle.
That disconnect carries a degree of morality as a person/a nation has a right to defend themselves, but, it also ALLOWS for a great deal of immorality and the possibility of becoming 'the bad guy' when a government turns on it's own people for the sake of sovereignty.
The immorality of the disconnect is right here. It is where technology takes away the moral conscience of a nation and allows the military to carry on without any cost to the country, except, for the military industrial complex budget.
This is about as immoral and disconnected as killing gets. The 'cyber-wars' are a prelude to a cyber-military that can kill according to a computer program. No conscience, no guilt, no thoughts about human frailties, only death by machine. How convenient to realize a government believes they have control over every aspect of life of a citizen. Disgusting only begins to describe the ideation.
How clever an idea it is to realize The Hague will not have to prosecute a computer programer.
