The Goose and the Gander

Do you support the policy of the United States in drone bombing various "targets" around the world, even though we are not at war with those nations, nor have any trials been gave to those targeted?  Do you find movies like "Eye in Sky" a great portrayal of how so long as we wrestle with it a bit, it's okay to do what we got mad at the Japanese for doing in 1941?  

Here then for your review is a special treat.  I, your humble and amicable anarchist, have gone into the future, so I can bring back a news blurb from that time, and you can see if you find it to your taste. 

Here you go:

The Bruces.  Bringing the total drone bombed this year to 822.

5 AUG 2072 (Springfield, MwAD) - The latest in the ramped up series of drone bombings by the People's Republic of China killed four and injured five early this morning in Rochester, a poorer suburb of Springfield, the capitol of the Midwest Administrative District.  Beijing has released a statement saying that Tibetan Nationalist Choden Ho was discovered to be hiding in the suburban home only after months of intensive tracking of him.  "We take reports of collateral damage seriously, and regret the unfortunate loss of life.  Yet the assessment was made, at the highest levels, that this would be the only opportunity for bringing justice to the man most responsible for the Hong Kong Blinder Bomb last year."

The virus bomb was believed to be responsible for the deaths of 2,284 people in Hong Kong last May, and an additional 35,000 plus permanently disabled, in what is believed to be the largest single terrorist attack (using a virus) to date.  Significant parts of Hong Kong are yet quarantined, and 98% of the survivors of the deadly plague are blind and/or mentally impaired. 

A U.S. State Department spokesperson from the Arlington Capitol Zone released a statement saying, "We continue to deplore these unwarranted and unprovoked attacks upon our soil.  Since the Tehran Accords of '58, the United States as refrained from drone bombing any nation that we are not formally at war with.  It is high time that that the PRC signed that Accord."

Officials in Beijing have consistently maintained that they will never sign any accord or treaty that is in any way binding upon them when it comes to their national security.  That they "reserve the right to use any and all means to guard their interests at home and abroad".  

James Bruce, a robocar programmer, his wife Trisha Bruce, and their infant daughter Madison (six months old) were among those killed.  Several neighbors were also treated for minor injuries sustained from the blast damages done to their own unreinforced old-style homes.  Choden Ho was believed to have secured a position as a cook/gardener with the family.