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How'bout a drone to enforce the death penalty for the open practice of homosexuality (UAE being one of 10 countries in the world to do so):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_United_Arab_Emi...

http://www.arablawsworld.com/uae-laws-in-english.php

Or to assist with the forced deportation of Shi'ites:

http://abna.co/data.asp?lang=3&id=390575

Or torture drones for jails (torture being a "systematic practice" in UAE state security facilities, according to HRW):

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/27/uae-reports-systematic-to...

Or a drone to help husbands "chastise" their wives (or children) -- being as "the UAE penal code, sanctions beating and other forms of punishment or coercion providing the violence leaves no physical marks" -- as determined in 2010 by the UAE's highest court:

https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/19/uae-spousal-abuse-nev...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/10/19/uae.court.ruling/i...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/UAE-cou...

Or my personal favorite, the Sheik Issa Mark V -- a drone that can run over a man while driving a Mercedes SUV; rub salt into his wounds; and set his genitals afire with lighter fluid -- all while instructing a camereman (filming everything for the world to see), "Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Let his suffering show":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan#Trial...

The possibilities are endless.

parent nymph 12 years ago

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