Say what you will about college libertarians. The truth is that they’re having more fun than anyone else on campus.

Anthony Rodriguez of Young Americans for Liberty reports.

The UGA chapter had a successful day raising drone awareness at the Tate Center on campus

We made a sign that drew a distinction between Obama and Bush on drone warfare, with Obama’s administration showing a huge increase in strikes and deaths. We had another board for our game called “Pin the Drone on the Warzone” in which participants would play “pin the tail on the donkey” except with drones. They had to hit a country that we were involved in — the ironic part being we are involved in almost every country. We handed out pocket Constitutions, anti-war stickers, and information about YAL’s meeting next week (in which we had a guest speaker to talk on domestic use of drones).

I would catch people as they walked by in the hallway, asking them if they knew anything about drone warfare. The typical response was “What?” About half of the people knew what drones were but had no idea how they were being used in the Middle East. The other half had no idea what drones were, so I had to actually explain what a drone was and how it was used (surveillance, militarized/weaponized). I would then ask them who are drones used against — to my surprise some people correctly identified what was going on, that civilians and innocents were being killed (maybe they knew that was the direction I was going).

I asked them to name just 1 or 2 countries in which the U.S. government currently conducts drone warfare. Sometimes people would get one of them. There are four: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The problem though is that much of our drone program is kept pretty secretive. I would then ask them if Congress had declared war in those countries — to which they would say no or “don’t know.”


 
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