I'm your Huckleberry. That's just my game.
Posted on 05/15/2012 1:38:34 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist spoke about the use of drones for domestic spying last night.
He blasted the idea:
"A drone is a high-tech version of an old army. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys but not in America. Yes you can say we have satellites, we have Google Street, we have everything else, but that is no reason to accept a society where you are always watched by the government.
"I would predict the first guy who uses a second amendment weapon to bring a drone down who is hovering over his house will become a folk hero."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-analyst-first-american-to-shoot-down-a-domestic-spy-drone-will-become-a-folk-hero-2012-5#ixzz1uyNlHG00
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Shoot down of civilian 'animal rights drone' by Hunt Club.
"There was a time when a R/C Club used to get up on Sundays at the crack of dawn and fly noisy Radio Controlled Airplanes right over my house where I was trying to sleep in. Being a peaceful person who had asked the R/C/ Club to just fly the Airplanes in the other direction at least until I was awake I handled the problem just like a peaceful person would.I went to a Hobby Store and bought the most powerful R/C controller with a handful of the frequency chips that you could swap out in seconds. Each time a Radio Controlled Aircraft buzzed directly over my house I got the controller. With the swiftness of a sniper, I simply used the R/C controller by swapping out the chips until got the frequency of the buzzing airplane, took control and flew it out of site over the woods never to be found again. It only took three aircraft losses to be able to sleep in on Sundays. All peaceful. All legal. Anyone listening??
Let the arms race begin.
Smartest thing I’ve heard Charles say in a long time.
Solve two problems at once. Hack into them and direct them to crash into red light cameras.
I'm guessing they probably operate on a SINGCGARS radio, which frequency hops 111 times x second. I would think if one were to be brought down, it will be done by a hacker. Given the operational altitude of these things, there's probably very little the average citizen can do, although if it's known where they're taking off and landing from, something along these lines may hae some promise, albeit a quite expensive one...
He’ll become a DEAD folk hero or an imprisoned folk hero.
See thru walls with infrared... not easy to hide from that.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office north of Houston has one. Lots of cities, and I mean small cities, have them compliments of Homeland Security. The question is “who” is flying them. I doubt some deputy sheriffs have the training.
What really scares me is we’ve always thought the county sheriffs would stand with the people. Not so sure anymore. They like those toys they get from the government.
"It's going to be the bane of our existence. Stop it here. Stop it now."
Debate over using drones to monitor American cities
Boy, I've had my differences of opinion on constitutional authority with Mr. Krauthammer, but, he NAILD THIS ISSUE dead to right!
Yep, it's like Google Sat today vs what has been available for about 30 years in the military.
I worked at Texas Instruments in the early 80's (the inventor of semiconductors among other digital technologies). My ex military compatriots told me they could see the nose hairs of targets from their optics.
i don’t need any of this working class hero bullshit!
that’s when i threw hooper overboard chiefy.
thanks for the laugh.
Balloons tethered at different altitudes for long periods of time, painted sky colors, design a lightweight web made from high strength fibers like Spectra. Or just dangle streamers. Something to snare a propeller.
Just do some research about barrage balloons during WW2.
But if I wanted to shoot one down I might design a super air cannon flak gun loaded with paint balls, paint the optics at the very least. Do a search on the Punkin Chunkin air cannons, any redneck with a truck, a scrap yard and a welder can make one.
last but not least fly an Iranian flag, Obama will send you a drone for free.
I'm your Huckleberry. That's just my game.
Not if you give or sell it to the National Guard or civilian police agencies.
There are perfectly legitimate reasons to use drones. I can think of a specific situation in my county in which the use of a drone ended a standoff with an estranged husband who had shot and wounded a police officer after he failed to kill his wife and then barricaded himself in his wife's property after she escaped. At the time I was asked not to report on the use of the technology since it was not yet widely known what our forces were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan with high-tech surveillance equipment, but that's now widespread public knowledge.
There are also search-and-rescue situations where virtually everyone would believe drones are good because they save lives.
If you can see it from a plane, you can see it from a drone, and there's no legal barrier to using one.
After seeing just a small portion of the surveillance technology available to the federal government used in that shooter standoff situation, I think it's fair to say that their capabilities are far greater than what our enemies know.
Of course, not all things which are legal are a good idea and I share the concerns of a number of people on this thread about government surveillance. This is question of what the government **SHOULD** be doing, not what it legally **CAN** be doing.
I like the idea of using old technology to thwart overflights by these intruders...
The Brits had it right idea during the Blitz back in the day...
Just tie up a bunch of balloons with lightweight cables or even heavy fishing tackle line...
Should do the trick...
Then all you guys with the heavy artillery can save a little ammo in the mean time...
Just a thought...;-)
That lyric could almost work for the tune, “If I were a Rich Man!”, from “Fiddler On the Roof” fame...
Now I’m never gonna get that tune outta muh head today!!! Uggghhhh!!!
Now thats a frugal FReeper!!!
Simple, elegant and downright genius!!!
Whats the reception range of an Airhog???
I know they sell some upsized knockoffs at some kiosks in the malls around the country that could do the same thing...I think their range is only about a couple hundred feet though...
Party pooper!!!
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