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Pirates Thwarted by Sonic Weapon
Kristian Hermansen was one of dozens to submit a story about would be pirates attempting to take control of a cruise ship of the coast of Africa, only to be twarted by some sort of
sonic weapon known as an LRAD, or Long Range Acoustic Device.
Nope. They don't go away. But when the first RPG explodes in a passenger cabin and you're prevented by international law from having the sort of heavy weapons that the situation calls for, the ethical question becomes fairly simple and straightforward - something like "if you get the opportunity for a kill, do you leave enough remains for the family to bury?" Whether or not to deploy any weapons you might have simply isn't a question.
This is in stark contradiction to the case of using sonic weapons for crowd control at the 2004 Republican national convention, in which case the ethical question is, "Do Republican politicians know what the word 'ethical' means?"
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
With old pensioners and the like.
No wonder you USians screw everything you touch. You are fucking barbarians when it comes down to deal adequately with violence, you just name the dead people collateral damage and wait to be hailed as heroes.
Pathetic.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
There's something wrong, namely that I can think of plenty of BAD uses for all of the above. Supporting an oppressive dictatorship, for example, in defiance of a trade embargo, for example, would be a bad use since those supplies let the opposition stay strong (and continue oppressing and whatnot). Don't bother reminding me that there are lots of furry, cuddly, nice countries that earn embargoes for political reasons. I don't care.
Yes, a trade embargo against food and medicine are GOOD, let those stinkin' socialists and their kids starve, be ill and die, because the USA *must* always be right: This excerpt is from a 2002 Oxfam report entitled Cuba: Social Policy at the Crossroads: Maintaining Priorities, Transforming Practice ""Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size of its gross domestic product per capita. As the human development index of the United Nations makes clear year after year, Cuba should be the envy of many other nations, ostensibly far richer. [Cuba] demonstrates how much nations can do with the resources they have if they focus on the right priorities - health, education, and literacy."" -- the United Nations, April 11, 2000 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/sfeature/sf_vi ews_uriarte.html