Yes they were and are. I'm not sure what X-Men comics you've been reading.
They ok the use of Sentinels to defend the American people from dangerous mutants.
This is not what all they do.
Did you completely miss the Master Mold and Bastion story lines? They're programmed to capture and/or kill mutants. Not just protect humans from mutants.
And in terms of the goverment that's pretty much been the case since the Sentinels were introduced.
So the gov. okays one thing about sentinels and ignore when they do much more than that.
There was even a point where they had a group of Sentinels posted right outside the X-Mansion. Not to attack the X-Men, but to keep an eye on them.
I already referenced that. This was after Decimation. There were a lot less mutants in the world so the gov. headed by O.N.E. decided to round up the remaining mutants and the X-Men to keep them where they were just like Japanese interment. If you don't see that as an egregious infringement of civil rights I don't know what to tell you.
I mean did you read those stories? The mutants in the next camp had to form a resistance to escape. The gov. supervised O.N.E. as those U-Men rejects experimented on one mutant and had that mutant kill others.
What you're saying doesn't happen.
Yes it did.
Word to
Operation: Zero Tolerance.
Let me know if you been reading these X-Men comic or just skimming through them.
Sentinels don't just show up and take mutants away. The times when the actual government is sending Sentinels after the X-Men are few and far between, and in many cases comes from a misunderstanding.
No it isn't and they don't just take mutants away if other mutants get involved they kill them.
Mutants fighting sentinels isn't some misunderstanding like when superheroes use to fight each other when they first met.
9 times out of 10 its, as I previously stated, the Sentinels acting on their own a la Terminator (Master Mold, Nimrod, etc) or someone else besides the government sending his/her own Sentinels (Sebastian Shaw, Stephan Lang, etc.), or someone taking control of the Sentinels (Onslaught, Dark Beast, Loki, etc)
You need to read the 80s and 90s X-Men comics asap.
It's only been since Morrison's run that the gov. hasn't been as involved with hunting and killing mutants.
Sentinels have been used by the government to attack Kang the Conqueror when he was invading the planet.
So what? Sentinels were used to commit mutant genocide.
Incidents of Sentinels then operating tend to be wrapped up fairly quickly, and without any confirmation there's not even anything to say that the government is aware when these things are happening
So if the gov. isn't aware they're not corrupt just incompetent.
So the gov. of the world are either corrupt which many have been shown to see or incompetent.
Sentinels make just as much sense as having a mutant fighting task force made of mutants
No they don't. The second you start making machines do the peace keeping is when you've lost the ppl entirely. It'd be folly to think other wise.