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bananas

(27,509 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2015, 02:25 PM Apr 2015

DRONE PILOTS: PLEASE DON'T FLY Beale AFB (full version)

DRONE PILOTS: PLEASE DON'T FLY Beale AFB (full version)
knowdrones.com
Published on Mar 30, 2015

A 15-second television spot showing horrors of drone attacks, calling on drone pilots to not fly.
Produced by KnowDrones.com.
Co-sponsored by Veterans for Peace/Sacramento, and Veterans Democratic Club of Sacramento.

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DRONE PILOTS: PLEASE DON'T FLY Beale AFB (full version) (Original Post) bananas Apr 2015 OP

Military veterans target U.S. drone strikes in TV ads bananas Apr 2015 #1

DRONE PILOTS: PLEASE DON'T FLY Beale AFB (2nd version) bananas Apr 2015 #2

There are years where we kill more innocent kids with drones than bad people do here jtuck004 Apr 2015 #3

Why not just make it a "no more airstrikes" campaign? Blue_Tires Apr 2015 #4

Stop killing! Dont call me Shirley Apr 2015 #5

bananas

(27,509 posts)

1. Military veterans target U.S. drone strikes in TV ads

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 02:28 PM

Apr 2015

Posted in Good Reads at http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=edit&forum=1016&thread=120782

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article17894003.html

Military veterans target U.S. drone strikes in TV ads
By Robert D. Dávila
bdavila@sacbee.com
04/08/2015 Updated 04/10/2015

A group of military veterans is taking aim at U.S. drone strikes overseas with graphic TV ads directly asking Air Force pilots to stop flying the unmanned aircraft, calling the operations immoral and illegal.

The ads are the first commercials opposing U.S. drone operations ever shown on American TV, according to sponsors, which include the Veterans Democratic Club of Sacramento County and the Sacramento chapter of Veterans for Peace. The campaign is spearheaded by an activist website, KnowDrones.com.

The commercials are airing this month on Comcast in Northern California communities near Beale Air Force Base, which is home to Golden Hawk reconnaissance drones. Pilots at Beale remotely fly the spy drones over areas believed to be controlled by terrorists in foreign countries and pinpoint human targets for attack by armed Predator and Reaper drones.

The two 15-second spots show images from a drone operations video screen, an explosion and civilians searching through rubble after a drone attack. On-screen messages read “Drone killings violate law and morality” and “Drone pilots. Please refuse to fly. No one has to obey an immoral law.”

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bananas

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2. DRONE PILOTS: PLEASE DON'T FLY Beale AFB (2nd version)

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 02:31 PM

Apr 2015

DRONE PILOTS: PLEASE DON'T FLY Beale AFB (2nd version)
knowdrones.com
Published on Mar 30, 2015

A 15-second television spot showing horrors of drone attacks, calling on drone pilots to not fly. Produced by KnowDrones.com. Co-sponsored by Veterans for Peace/Sacramento, and Veterans Democratic Club of Sacramento.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

3. There are years where we kill more innocent kids with drones than bad people do here

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:06 PM

Apr 2015

with handguns. Seems the result is the same, regardless of the reason for the murder. We should stop both.

That first one borders on honesty...better.

Blue_Tires

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4. Why not just make it a "no more airstrikes" campaign?

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:30 PM

Apr 2015

Because when it's framed like this, the implication is this group would be perfectly ok with conventional pilots flying conventional aircraft releasing conventional weapons on the same conventional targets....

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

5. Stop killing!

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Wed Apr 22, 2015, 09:18 AM

Apr 2015

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