[Futurework] Government from bunkers

[Keith Hudson]

Those high-flying pilotless planes called drones fascinate me. 
American drones have been hand-picking and killing Taliban commanders 
in Afghanistan one by one in the last year or two. Last week, one of 
America's latest bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel drones went off-course 
and landed deep in Iran. (This accident will electrify the Israelis, 
of course!) You can be sure that Russian and Chinese scientists will 
already be examining the drone closely and will soon be taking its 
detailed specifications back home for copying. It is said that the 
latest American-Israeli drones under development are now slimmed down 
to the size of songbirds, or even large insects like mosquitoes. Once 
enough countries have developed these drones in the coming years, it 
will surely be the case that no powerful politicians in the world 
will be able to show themselves in public for fear of being 
assassinated by a simulated pigeon which has parked itself overnight 
on a nearby roof. It will be government from bunkers by then, won't it?

Keith

Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
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