US drones have launched multiple attacks today across Yemen, according to that nation’s state media, with the strikes killing 10 people all of whom were identified as “al-Qaeda” militants in the report.
The strikes targeted several vehicles in the Bayda and Hadramut Provinces, and the media report claimed that Abdullah Awad al-Masri, a top bomb-maker for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was reported slain in Bayda.
It is the second flurry of drone attacks over the past few days, as a weekend strike against Hadramut Province also killed five people who were reportedly AQAP members, though none of them have ever been named.
The strikes come as local officials in southern Yemen are expressing concern that the security forces have left them with very little in the way of equipment, and have not followed through on promises of improvements in the areas. It seems that Yemen may be counting on US air power to keep AQAP under wraps for now.
Just so people know, II and many others are not *purchasing* these so-called services from the United States government.
Rather, the government is providing them without asking myself or others whether we wish to purchase them and then claiming that it has the right to forcibly extract money from myself and others to pay for them.
"Neither the conduct nor the rights of these signers would be improved at all by their saying to the dissenters: We offer you equal rights with ourselves, in the benefits of the church, school, hospital, or theatre, which we propose to establish, and equal voice in the control of it. It would be a sufficient answer for the others to say: We want no share in the benefits, and no voice in the control, of your institution; and will do nothing to support it." –Lysander Spooner, "No Treason: No. 2 The Constitution", http://www.freedomforallseasons.org/TaxFreedomEma…
Spooner is correct that that is a sufficient answer to guarantee myself and others the right to keep are own money and the right refrain from giving it to the injustice-providing organization known as the US Government, however unfortunately it is apparently not enough to persuade most people to stop supporting the tyrannical organization.
Just trying to strike the root of the problem…. I think that if Obama's drone program and the rest of the US military were unable to obtain their funding by extortion but were instead dependent on voluntary payments then a very large portion of the immoral violence would go away soon. Of course it would still not be perfectly peaceful, but I think it's clear that it would be much more so.