CHALLENGING DRONOTOPIA - War Is A Crime .org

Lafayette, of the schools we visited, has the distinction of having had a student, Angela
Mongelluzzo (Class of 2012) study and report on ethical issues raised by drone warfare
as part of a program in its engineering department that examines ethical issues related to
the advancement of technology. The fruit of her work is the website Dollars for Drones
https://sites.lafayette.edu/egrs451-sp12-uav/
Presentation at Lafayette College
Photo by George Guerci
Katalin Fabian, professor of government and law, who hosted our visit to Lafayette,
and Alexandra Hendrickson, the college chaplain, did a good job of turning out an
audience for us. Our presentation marked Lafayette’s observance of the United Nations’
International Day of Peace.
About 50 students, faculty and other staff attended. The Q & A period was lively, and I
got the sense that much of what I presented was new to the audience. I emphasized, as I
did in other talks, that drone killing and surveillance must be viewed in the context of the
struggle among industrial powers over limited non-renewable resources. We must shift
our government’s spending, I said, away from war and toward developing renewable
fuels and materials, referencing Michael Klare’s The Race for What’s Left. I was told
later that I got good marks from several students.
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