Ted Rall for January 18, 2013
Transcript:
Police work pays off: The killer of innocent school kids is arrested. (Police Officer 1: Damn it's hot here.) (Police Officer 2: Freeze, creep! You're gonna pay for what you did!) But then- (Man: I didn't use a gun to kill those kids. I used a drone.) (Police Officer 2: An act of war! This is Pakistan! You attacked the U.S.!) (Man: No problem. I had a lawyer draft a memo outlining the legal rationale justifying my American schoolkid- murdering program.) (Police Officers: Can we see it?) (Man: Nope) (Man 2: Forget it. Let him go.) (Police Officer 2: If I'd known he had a secret unredable document-) (Police Officer 3: Order more body bags.)
If a US drone pilot (operator?) deliberately targeted school children, we’d charge him with murder no matter where the school was. When terrorist start punishing their own then I’ll take these kinds of complaints seriously.