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To: Political Junkie Too
36 posted on Tue May 15 2012 16:27:16 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Political Junkie Too: “Drones are military equipment. Isn't it a violation of Posse Comitatus to use drones over the United States against its citizens?”

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.

115 posted on 05/16/2012 3:17:56 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: darrellmaurina
Fine. Then turn the administration of domestic drones over to a civilian authority to operate.

-PJ

136 posted on 05/16/2012 8:51:55 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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