A ROBOT REQUIEM

The Ministry of Murder Defence has looked into how war can be made more acceptable to the general public. The vast majority of those who die during a war are from the general public, with a small number belonging to the privileged class.

So how can war be made more acceptable to the general public? Some of the suggestions are:
1. low profile repatriation ceremonies
2. more use of special forces, such as the SAS
3. more use of mercenaries
4. more use of drones

And it is this last option that is most disturbing.

The use of drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan has caused outrage in those nations, but not here. Over there the drones kill many more in addition to their intended target, including women and children at family gatherings. Over here we only read that 'suspected terrorists' were killed, the word 'suspected' implying that there should be some kind of trial with evidence against the accused but the word 'terrorist' automatically convicts the accused in the eyes of public traumatised by 9/11 and 7/7.

A drone is a robot. A primitive robot, but still a robot. Development of land-based autonomous robots for military and law enforcement is developing at a disturbing rate, so much so that the UN is being pressured into stopping this development. But with the UN full to the brim with Ziorobots I have little confidence that anything will happen. This is why most films featuring a robot have been good PR for robots, conditioning us to accepting them, because robots are good (Robocop, Terminator, I Robot) and have emotion and feeling (AI).

So if a robot army is developed and deployed, will we hold a robot requiem?

Will we write poetry for the slaughtered robots?

Will we remember the fallen robots on Remembrance Sunday?

No. War will become an apparently bloodless, painless myth that happens somewhere 'over there' not discussed on iPhone news apps.

But perhaps things will evolve so much that robots will write a requiem for the 'dead' robots.

The best way to make war acceptable to the general public is to engage in war only when it is absolutely necessary for the general public. The war in Afghanistan was necessary, but only for the opium and heroin dealers and the energy-related companies. The wars in Iraq and Libya were necessary, but only for those who had dreamed up the plan for war on seven nations in five years as revealed to General Wesley Clark.

The MoD is the Ministry of Defence, not the Ministry of Zioimperialism, or the Ministry of Offence, or the Ministry of Oil-Grabs or the Ministry of Opium. It is the Ministry of Defence, or to give it its full title, The Ministry of Defence of the General Public.