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National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List
First time accepted submitter crtitheories writes "In response to the national kill list revealed by the New York Times a few weeks ago, an online "Do Not Kill" Registry has been launched where users can sign up to avoid being mistakenly added. From the Do Not Kill website: 'Through an active collaboration between the Do not Kill Registry, the brave pilots and operators of the U.S. drone program, and the American public, we believe that we can find the political and moral solutions needed to both protect the security of the United States while also satisfying the concerns of the broader global community'. "
Aren't you a little late for April Fools Day?
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
The commander in chief of the most powerful army, navy, and air force in the world has a list of people he wants dead? STOP THE PRESSES! Targeting specific people is not news... it's war. People die when they're killed. Derp.
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Sounds legit. . .
After a quick WHOIS search, and a bit of googling, I found that this is registered to an individual who worked in 2009 as a San Francisco Art Institute teaching assistant.
It's a joke site.
Because the Do Not Call list worked out so well
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
It is almost ridiculous enough to be funny, but it also sounds just plausible enough to be real.
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Not sure that this will work very well. If you accidentially end up on a kill list of an automated hunter-killer, any redress list probably won't appear in the phone book listing... ;^)
Where reads: "Democracy and Free Enterprise"
Should read: "Demokrazy and Free Enterprize"
or: "Free Enterprize and Free Enterprize"
All lists should be Opt-In by default. So If I don't want to be teased, called, spammed etc I have to get on so many lists. Let's strike a deal and have One lust to rule them all -- "Don't put me on any List" list.
Can we have a "Please Kill" list as well. I have a neighbor with a dog that barks all night that's just itching for a drone attack.
I am required to smite the heretic and the infidel.
This is a deeply-held religious conviction.
As such, I must be accommodated by law.
Accordingly, a Do-Kill-List must be started.
BTW, it is a heresy not to use your turn signals. Let the slaughter begin. God shall know his own.
The site is blocked here at a major international corporation! Should I worry that my employer has blocked the site and I can't sign up? Does that mean they've pre-protected me and already signed me up with a special corporate agreement or that I need to start looking up and over my shoulder for funny looking planes orbiting my position?
it's a scam by the CIA, trying to tempt terrorists to fill in their name and whereabouts thinking they'll be safer.
also beware of the "do not steal my identity list", send name, address, SSN, mother's maiden name, bank details to apply
Nullius in verba
"No Kill I"
Yet Another List For Spy Agencies To Look At.
Stop pissing everyone off to the point they want to attack you! It's not rocket science, if you keep walking into other countries ( or flying ) and pushing them around like the bully at school, then one day someone will come to school with a gun and your going to pay.
So you want the solution, just admit you've been a complete ass-hole to everyone, take what's coming and what you deserve and then play nice.
Let's keep this in mind for the upcoming election, and let's see what the two major candidates have to say about it. And don't complain that you didn't have a choice... there were primary candidates who strongly opposed these kinds of foreign adventures by the US government.
"Don't kill me bro"
Unfortunately, due to some misplaced punctuation, everyone on the Do Not Kill registry was accidentally added to the Kill list. Our programmers are working hard to correct this error, and we extend our greatest sympathies to the relatives of those who have accidentally been killed already.
Who do I contact to have someone removed from that list?
Doesn't being filmed eating pork with an official time-stamp every X hours accomplish the same thing?
Obvious email address harvester...
-- "In order to have power, I must be taken seriously." -Mojo Jojo
What makes executing a suspect in country x any more objectional than executing a suspect in the US? Is there something inherently different in a person residing in another nation making them less deserving of the same right to due process as a person residing in your own country?
The world is full of bad actors, far more people are damaged, killed and terrorized by the drug trade than have ever been killed by al qaeda yet there are no drones invading Mexico airspace gunning down kingpins or carpet bombing Afghan poppy fields.
Put us down for the Royal Dalton "Richard Burton" pattern, the Damascus steel steak knives, and the Mr. Felafel Shawarma rotisserie...
What do you mean, it's not *that* kind of registry?
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On an unrelated note, people have began disappearing from their homes with no warning. They all seem to have gone to a website called, "DoNotKillRegistry".
More on the story as we know it.
Really? Brave Pilots? Of Drones? These are the world's biggest cowards, blowing up women and children from half a world away like its a vidya game. Pussies.
...I'm pissed off at all this hand-wringing.
Killing U.S. citizens actively engaged in treason without a proper trial? You know, Abraham Lincoln and the civil war kind of settled that - about 140 years ago.
It's never been this bad ever before? No, actually. It's never been this good, as the book Winning the War on War explains. We are, today, in a golden age of peace, where the media gets upset at literally a handful of people in Yemen doing bad things.
If you want to know about real war, we still have a few here and there. The Second Congo War (a.k.a. the Great War of Africa), from 1998-2003 had over 5.1 MILLION casualties. To put that in perspective, there were more casualties in a single week of that war, than all the deaths (PLO/Hamas terrorist and Israeli overreaction) attributable to 40 years of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. But you didn't know about this war, did you? Because, of course, it's just black Africans dying. So nothing that anyone in the U.S. cares about.
Seriously. Having the President personally decide the fate every single person to be killed? That's a vast improvement. I'm not even sure Stalin, or Lincoln for that matter, could even count all the people who were killed by their more generalized orders. It takes forever to count that high.
Who is paying for this waste of money? I never agreed to it nor do I support "taxation without representation".
Yes, it's nice that things are getting better, but they are getting better because people are paying more attention to just these kinds of questions. And the fact that people in the Congo are killing each other really has little bearing on what policies are proper for us to adopt. And, frankly, that the president is not as bad as Stalin is not exactly a reassuring comparison.
There is no reason why the president needs to decide these cases by himself. The US could hold a trial in absentia where the executive branch presents evidence to judges; that would allow two of the branches of government to have input into the cases, and it would provide much better documentation for why they were killed and what the evidence was.
Social engineering at its very finest. Yes I wish to give my real name and an email address to [whomever].
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
how about we drop you in there with a puppy and have you pick up your friends. you see, son, just because you and your ilk don't want to face responsibility for your actions, does not mean that the adult will just sit around and wait to die.
we never asked everyone in a German outfit if he was really an American who supported the fascist state (Prescott bush for example) In short, grow up.
why don't you just admit the truth instead of insulting your betters by pretending you have any sort of intellectual or moral basis for your hatred.
how you feel about black haven't you.
What we SHOULD be doing is working to get everyone and their dog onto the "kill" list, to the point that one of three things happens:
1. A few perfectly innocent people get targeted and all hell breaks loose, or
2. The people relying on that list are forced to abandon it as completely polluted, or
3. It remains officially in existence, but nobody actually uses it. They rely upon a separate list which may or may not be a subset of the polluted list.
Option 1 will force changes and most likely would result in a rather thorough rolling of heads at the top. That's why it is unlikely to happen.
Option 2 would be little more than inconvenient, but the replacement list had better be relatively vetted and secure or it too will get polluted.
Option 3 will reduce the list to being merely an embarrassment to those in power. All but a few paranoid types (justified or not) will forget about it.
It's like putting "kilo nuclear uranium jihad" in your signature file to crap up the ECHELON system.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
All the Germans had to do was place a bunch of Nazi sympathizers in the pillboxes at the beach, and we'd be unable to invade, less we hurt anyone's feelings.
The Nobel prize winner? I find that hard to believe..... OK, everyone know the previous statement was just a lie. If Obama has a kill list (And quite probably he has it), just goes to prove that is just another murderer with a big army of hit men. So much for the US being a beacon of freedom and justice. First train terrorists and once they are not useful, just get someone to kill them. And some people still wonder why the US does not earn the respect of the world.....
I am chuckling at all the comments whizzing around taking that site seriously.
Best joke so far this month...
Insert
User-agent: Predator
Disallow: mother
Disallow: father
Disallow: wife
Disallow: son
Disallow: daughter
# Disallow: mother-in-law
Have gnu, will travel.
I'm a bit confused. Aren't drones operated remotely from somewhere generally pretty safe? Just how much bravery do they require?
Did you even bother to read the GP's post before replying to it? He dislikes the tea party and agrees that this unconstitutional stuff has been going on for decades. His only complaint about Obama is that it has continued and in some ways worsened under his watch. How in the world does that makes him a racist? Oversensitive much?
I have no doubt there are many people that dislike Obama for stupid reasons like the fact that he's black. Those people are idiots. Disliking him because he is taking liberties with the rule of law, however, isn't any less legitimate or reasonable than it was with white presidents.
For some reason, I am more frightened of handing my email address over to a "government agency" with a gmail account than I am of the "Kill List". Does that make me too paranoid, not paranoid enough, or just poorly prioritized?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0E2Pn0orZU
Which is what makes me suspect it's a joke site, and that there's a heavy touch of sarcasm.
"...., the brave pilots and operators of the U.S. drone program...."
Damn brave, risking their lives shooting someone down from their heavily fortified bunker located a completely different country to the actual battle.
For that to matters, you'll need a better electing system, where "None of the above" could matter.
Like for example, a 2 round election like in France. (Note: I'm not french)
Otherwise, your vote will get lost among a sea of other people who end up choosing the "Least bad of 2 terrible choice".
In a 1 round system, there are too many people who are affraid that, by voting for a 3rd party, there will be less vote ending up for the Least Bad.
Not only their candidate has a very tiny chance of getting elected, but then the Worst bad could win instead.
That's why over time, most 1 round election systems end-up in a bi-partisan configuration.
With a 2 round system, you spend the first round voting for the candidate you like the most, and post-pone all "least bad" thinking for the second vote. In countries like France, the 1 round has results a lot less skewed in favor of only the same two parties. Which sometime brings surprises for the 2nd round (some time, bad surprises like the 2nd round being moderate right-wing candidate vs. right-wing extremist, but hey, at least it's not always the same 2 parties ending up on the 2nd round).
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Any list you can make I can make faster.
Any list I can make faster than you!
Where is the form to apply for this kill list?
Also: I don't see why anyone would want to risk being involved in this drone stuff, surely it just sets you up as a potential target?
You're even stupider than the tea partiers. I would love to have a black man in office. Someone like Cornell West would be an amazing president. Barack Obama is a straight up authoritarian.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Somebody told me a few minutes ago that they would like the option to ADD some names to the kill list.
Get on the Do Not Track List. A drone that can't Track can not Kill.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.