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WHAT THE FUCK IS THE IMPLICATION OF THIS??
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1845016404760165806&hl=undefined

It seems to be a way for industrialized nations to patrol the third world by using autonomous, armed robots. Are they saying that the people of the third world are unable of policing themselves? What are the goals of “helping the police”? Who are “they” working for?

Considering the significant popular uprisings being suppressed by police in Oaxaca, Mexico.

And the Bush administration’s threat of sanctions against Nicaragua following their recent election…

Is the answer really to arm robots which essentially will just serve the intentions of the established authority regardless of the intentions of the people’s demonstrations? Only persons who have the capacity to understand that a perceived threat might be better solved through rationalization and discussion and understanding rather than through suppression with weaponry is going to be able to make a clear decision as to whether they are acting morally or immorally before they pull the trigger.

This isn’t just some scary big brother shit this is Nazi-robotics.

10 reasons things will be different

I think the scariest part is how most if not all of this information is staring us in the face each and every day in the news but in everyday life no one is talking about it. Perhaps its the feeling of not knowing what else to do since the administration is simply bullying congress and the courts to fall into line. *sigh* Maybe I’ll be arrested for writing this stuff in ten years.

Been thinking about the UN a lot recently and it brought up memories of this profile of Kofi Annan from the New Yorker.

Probably once a month I think about this passage:
‘”They went somewhere and Kofi needed a haircut. The guy said, ‘We don’t cut niggers’ hair,’ and he said, ‘I’m not a nigger, I’m an African,’ and the guy said, ‘That’s O.K., come on, siddown’—and cut his hair.”
What struck Linnee about this was “the difference between Africans’ and African-Americans’ thinking about race.” She said, “Kofi didn’t think about it. It was never a question of race for him,” and she noticed that it was the same for a Nigerian aristocrat he hung around with. “They didn’t think they were in any way involved. They didn’t even think of colonialism as a matter of race,” she said.’

I know its long to read on the internet but worth it if you make it through.