Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2013)

Jonathan’s comments from the On Tyrants & Tributes : Real World Lessons From The Hunger Games group.

One good example of the U.S. government's use of violence to cause fear among its subjugated population is the CIA's use of drones to carry out "signature strikes" that targets people it assumes are terrorists through surveillance without due process in another state and calling it "imminent threat".
According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, it has been estimated that 178 children have been killed in Pakistan and Yemen due to indiscriminate killing through the use of signature strikes. These actions doesn't relieve tension but creates them. Washington's double standards mean that US military intervention is defined as "self-defense" while an enemy retaliation is considered "offensive". U.S. military interventions have been around 75 times ever since the end of the Second World War. What are your opinions regarding this situation?

I would just like to point out that even though the Hunger Games were fought to the death until a winner has been decided, those who fought in the Colosseum, the gladiators, weren't necessarily so. They were kept, maintained, and trained as "invaluable commodities" and it has been estimated that 90 percent was the survival rate of gladiators and some lived long enough to reach retirement during the first century AD.