Ted Rall for September 09, 2016

Trump wants to be America’s Duterte.

Only the wealthy and well connected have due process.The rest of us are guilty even if we’re innocent.BTW, under the law there is no such thing as innocent, there is only not guilty, the negative of a negative.

Ted’s drone obsession continues. At least he’s not comparing Hillary’s emails to the Holocaust today.

And 45 years ago the picture would have been B-52S dropping tonnage in S.E. Asia; and 25 years ago it would have been cruise missiles launching for eastern Iraq, and 70 years ago…

yup, war is hell

Autonomous robots with today’s AI is a scary idea.http://defense-update.com/20151231_russian-combat-robots.html

I still am waiting for Ted’s GRAND PLAN! I’m sure it is as good as TRUMP’S!

You can’t just lynch someone… you have to give them a fair trial and then lynch them.

Duterte insulted his mama! Time to invade the Phillippines.

I think what Bam Bam meant was that you have to give due process to your own citizens. Or, maybe not.

This is like saying the Bush administration started preemptive strikes on Americans with trumped up evidence. There is a difference between a war zone and the streets of an American city. Obama is not droning street level drug dealers, he is blowing up brown people over there. They are trying to get terrorists, and they do hit civilians and that is wrong. I would rather they stop all of it. But equating these scenarios is hyperbole at its finest.

I thought we were fighting the JV Team?

Flash GordonActually there is one narrow concept of innocence. First, you have to be convicted in a kangaroo court on fraudulent evidence. Then serve a major time in prison, preferably on death row. Then have innocence proven to a scientific certainty. Next, get “pardoned” by the marsupial. Finally, after relentless lobbying (usually a cause célèbre), there is a slight chance of getting certified as “actually innocent”..PICTOOf course you can. All you need is a badge and a gun. You may also get a paid vacation as a reward. At worst, you will get a new job in a new jurisdiction.

Duterte did not want to meet Obama because he was afraid he would drone on, yuk, yuk, yuk. I could not resist that one. I hope it made many of you wince. Keep up the great work, Ted!

OldCoal Asimov missed that one in his Laws of Robotics.

A wince, a yawn. They’re so much alike.

Yeah! Because due process in war zone makes total sense. Because the bad guys are due processing us right back!