“South Park”: Life In A Drone
Last night, on “South Park,” Cartman and Butters got their hands on a drone. Of course, they use it to spy on people, including a woman getting undressed. The pranks were harmless enough, but the subtext was clear: we live in a drone world, where the contraptions are used not just for spying but for killing people that the U.S. government deems unacceptable. Even American citizens abroad, deemed dangerous and not fit for due process. I hear a lot of people saying: don’t blame Obama for all the drone use — if the technology had been perfected under Bush he would have used them, too. Fair enough: but it’s also fair to say, as James Risen reports in his new book, “Pay Any Price,” that under Obama our national security state is even more out of control than it was under his predecessor. Even pie-eyed little Butters can understand that.
