Posted on 02/10/2012 8:31:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
America's police state: The drones are coming
Friday, February 10, 2012
A new federal law accelerating domestic use of government aerial surveillance drones brings America frighteningly close to an Orwellian police state.
President Obama is expected to sign the FAA Reauthorization Act, which expedites approval for federal, state and local police to use these drones. The Federal Aviation Administration's existing case-by-case approach is chilling enough -- it's being sued over its refusal to disclose publicly which agencies use drones and how they're used.
Still, it's known that the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection arm uses drones domestically. Now imagine local police drones constantly, unblinkingly tracking -- without warrants -- your every move and aspect of your property.
Far-fetched? Hardly. Great Britain right now is testing the use of drones to enforce government-subsidized agricultural policies. If successful, drones will replace satellite surveillance. The French government already monitors wine producers with drones.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Congress OKs Production For Thousands Of Surveillance Drones That Threaten Civilian Privacy
It’ll be a big day when the first drone strike on American citizens on American soil ends up happening. They’ll probably try it against some meth lab or something most people would agree is “deserving”. That way the lefties and moderates will say it was a good thing we have a president who “defends” us.
Brave new world.
Podcast: Law Enforcement Anxious for UASs
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Sadly, it seems this cannot be used as a campaign issue since Congress apparently initiated the issue.
I wonder if they would take a couple of us Freepers.
Every day it is feeling more and more likes "It's Over"...
It’s only bad to the left and MSM if a president with an R does something like this
AHA! So that's what Stalin was relating to FDR and Churchill at Yalta!
AHA! So that's what Stalin was relating to FDR and Churchill at Yalta!
Yeah their willing to use them on American citizens but they won’t send them to the Mexican border to keep the illegals out.
I’m sure the elites in both parties (i.e., 90% of Congress) supports this wholeheartedly.
“We the People” are the biggest threat they see.
I wish they would stop citing Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, because the truth of the matter is that by 1984, we were already to the level of surveillance and government intrusion found in that book.
And it hasn’t gotten better since. In fact, it is now a hundred times worse.
So think of the sequel, call it “Twenty-twelve”, as a new benchmark for obsessive and futile government *and* private voyeuristic surveillance, dossiers, databases and data mining.
It is oppressive and evil. You betcha. But probably the worst part about it is that when government is unwilling or unable to do its job—the big stuff—it spends vast amounts of time and labor fussing with petty and stupid data accumulation.
Government officials always tell themselves that, by doing this, it will “make their job easier”, and accomplish some nebulous and positive goal. The truth is that it just clutters society with stupid and useless data, at great cost, while the big stuff is ignored. Nothing good ever comes from it.
So why is America $14T in debt? Simple, because government *truly cares* about your toilet paper consumption on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis. They *truly care* about the names some old cat lady has given her 23 cats.
Because if they didn’t fuss with nonsense like that, the public would demand that they do something about important things, and that is the last thing they care about.
Maybe they’ll be able to “take out” illegal footballs and frisbees being used on California beaches. Eat your peas!
Or these:
This next one is kinda creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM
And in a group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cZv5oKABPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dkonAXOlQ
Imagine what could be done with these things. Ponder it for a moment.
Drone aircraft are patrolling U.S. Cities
http://publicintelligence.net/drone-aircraft-are-patrolling-u-s-cities/
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