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Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress
The Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | Shaun Waterman

Posted on 02/08/2012 8:11:18 AM PST by rarestia

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To: OneWingedShark

State’s have constitutions...? Who nu? /sarc

Really though... this has been on the books unchallenged for a number of years now. As much as your legal logic is how it should be...it is not how it will be.


101 posted on 02/08/2012 7:12:22 PM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the Big Brother Ping.


102 posted on 02/08/2012 7:40:09 PM PST by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Well, we’ve always been a minority. At least nothing has changed. I wonder what’s behind all this. What have they been briefed on that the rest of us don’t know?


103 posted on 02/08/2012 8:14:49 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Chickensoup

I’ve seen them smashed up pretty good in black neighborhoods. The only white neighborhood where I’ve seen them abused is on the far NW side where a lot of police, fire and city workers live. Other than that civil disobedience is dead. A century of government schooling has seen to that.


104 posted on 02/08/2012 8:25:30 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

“” What have they been briefed on that the rest of us don’t know?””

In a word - Nothing. Another Georgia FReeper took the liberty of calling one of our “Peck’s bad boys” - (Isakson) to ask that very question...I won’t even make you guess the answer, because I think you have probably already figured it out.

The staffer knew nothing about any provisions within the bill pertaining to drones, and communicated that the Senator was also more than likely unaware.

This kind of thing does tend to happen when you don’t read the bills you vote on Senator....

Dear Lord, give us strength.
Tatt


105 posted on 02/09/2012 4:56:54 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: thesearethetimes...

I can almost envision a cabal meeting in an office deep within the bowels of Capital Hill coordinating what is and what is not told to the Senators and Representatives.


106 posted on 02/09/2012 5:22:03 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: af_vet_rr; TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Yep. Just yesterday, immediately after posting to this thread, I picked up the local, SMALL town daily. Front page, above the fold article about the new “tool” the city police department had recently acquired- to “assist the SWAT team”.....

Don’t know about you, but I sure feel safer. /S

Dear Lord, give us strength.
Tatt


107 posted on 02/09/2012 5:34:50 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Well, but if they haven’t started reading these things for themselves at this point, it doesn’t seem to me that they are too worried about what they don’t know.

And so, they are not only of no good use to you or I, but are a true danger, serving only as, quite simply and aptly put - Useful Idiots.

And thank you, this helped tremendously in fleshing out my letters to our two illustrious Senators.

May God guide our course.
Tatt


108 posted on 02/09/2012 5:46:54 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: 1010RD

I’ve seen them smashed up pretty good in black neighborhoods. The only white neighborhood where I’ve seen them abused is on the far NW side where a lot of police, fire and city workers live. Other than that civil disobedience is dead. A century of government schooling has seen to that.
______________________________

So the only anger and intestinal fortititude is in black communities and communities where the majority work for the State. Disheartening.


109 posted on 02/09/2012 6:12:44 AM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: CodeToad

“sparsely populated, low-density Class G air traffic airspace “

Not much harm in that one.”””

Disagree-———that’s where I live.


110 posted on 02/09/2012 9:38:03 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Not all of Class G is being considered, just one area or maybe a few.


111 posted on 02/09/2012 2:00:20 PM PST by CodeToad (NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!)
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To: thesearethetimes...

When government gets so big that those vested in its management don’t know what’s going on you know we’re following the White Rabbit right down the hole.


112 posted on 02/09/2012 3:25:27 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Travis McGee

Do you ever get tired of being prescient?


113 posted on 02/09/2012 4:08:03 PM PST by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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To: thesearethetimes...
YEAs -—75 Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Rubio (R-FL)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

Anyone surprised to see some of these names that went along with this? Rubio and Kyl especially....

114 posted on 02/09/2012 4:22:04 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Quietly raises hand.

Tis why I posted it. Thune and Coburn were particularly troubling.

Getting hard to know who to trust these days.

Please give us strength Lord.
Tatt


115 posted on 02/09/2012 4:51:21 PM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Lady Jag

These are low slow flyers, like the ones in UK are 1000ft or less. But, they are electric and near impossible to hear. You are correct about our bigger DOD drones, however.


116 posted on 02/09/2012 4:59:36 PM PST by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: wxgesr; Lady Jag

http://www.insitu.com/

UAVs for shipboard use.


117 posted on 02/09/2012 5:02:00 PM PST by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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