Posted on 11/20/2012 7:32:14 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones for surveillance missions inside the United States, Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports.
The DHS recently signed a contract with General Atomics —worth as much as $443 million — to purchase up to 14 Predator drones, which would add to its current fleet of 10 if Congress appropriates the funds.
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That has been my question. Why spy on people? Why destroy the U.S. freedoms? What does it get them? Power, and ultimately money? They then become what they pretend to hate. When all is said and done, the whole mess just leads to depravity and evil. I guess they do it for Satan.
I think the military will be more likely to put the boot on the neck. Police are not necessarily more trustworthy, but they are much more local. They live in that town, their kids go to school, etc etc. If they truly turn evil, they risk immediate reprisals.
Military formations are much more accustomed to following orders, and live a cloistered life where they can be managed easier with the official explanation.
Also they are usually from somewhere else. Soldiers from the area to be supressed can easily be weeded out in advance. Otherwise, soldiers from there are likely to desert. Also, the Military has been filled with Petraeus types, generals who got stars under Clinton and Obama, Lt Col Paula Broadwells, etc etc.
This ain’t dads army.
If you doubt the military will attack Americans, i give you Kent State, the bonus army in DC, Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc. They will certainly do it.
As long as no tax payer money is involved, sure! </ha ha>
“Why? Why do this?”
Here’s the answer OBrian gave to Winston Smith as he was torturing him.
Of course, Smith wanted to know why. (Why not just kill him.)
Elsewhere in the book OBrian defined “power”: (it sounds like tautology, at first) “Power is the power to make others suffer.”
OBrian:
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
Our O’Brians are now welcoming illegal aliens—although they violate federal immigration and naturalization law by doing so—while planning to fly hundreds of surveillance drones to keep tabs on the rest of us.
They have been depleting our treasury—and credit—as fast as they can (just today I read about Obama wanting to send 4-5 billion freshly printed tax dollars to Asia, for their own Solyndras) and they have nationalized the automobile manufacturing, insurance and are on track to nationalize the health care industries, etc., all the while planning and implementing a raft of new repressive business regulations.
Nations are destroyed from within, not from without. Gibbon, Lincoln.
Obama and his friends see the USA as a capitalist, neo-colonial, imperialist power that should be run (as Socrates put it) by “those who know” as a socialist state.
We can joke that they are using the book `Nineteen EightyFour’ as a guidebook, like North Korea, but like North Korea they are anything but “democratic”.
Next on their agenda would be seeking out those like yourself and myself, on whatever charges they thought might stick (in `Oceania’ there were no laws, there was only thoughtcrime ; today, `racism,’ `insensitivity’ et cetera) and anyone who betrayed a thought of wanting to know why things had become the way they are, and if they were always this way, and if they could be changed was singled out and eliminated.
They seek power for its own sake. They are hardcore statists and barely concealed fascists. They want to make us suffer. That’s why they are doing this. Okey dokey?
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Because they're a lot of those "bitter clingers" in flyover country.
Because there are a lot of "bitter clingers" in flyover country.
(Up late.)
How come the ACLU has not raised a big stink about this?
From Krauthammer :
“I’m going to go hard left on you here, I’m going ACLU. I don’t want regulations, I don’t want restrictions, I want a ban on this. Drones are instruments of war. The Founders had a great aversion to any instruments of war, the use of the military inside even the United States. It didn’t like standing armies, it has all kinds of statutes of using the army in the country.
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home. Yes, you can say we have satellites, we’ve got Google Street View and London has a camera on every street corner but that’s not an excuse to cave in on everything else and accept a society where you’re always under — being watched by the government. This is not what we want.
I would say that you ban it under all circumstances and I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I an predicting that the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country.”
I see this posted a lot here on FR...and I know most of these comments are in jest. However, I do hope people realize you aren't going to shoot these things down.
First of all, you don't hear them...so you don't know they are there. Do you know of anyone who can hear a lawnmower from a mile and a half? Second, they fly at an operational height that will certainly prohibit anyone from shooting them down with a rifle.
There is a reason the terrorists hate these things so much. There is no defense, available to the average man, against them.
Funny eeehhhhh?
No one is shooting anything down. These drones should have no place whatsoever in this country.
Disgusting how people support this insanity
Concur 110%...
Concur 110%...
Had Bush done this, the left would be going ape sh*t over this and rightly so.
Let’s be honest, we let it happen.. First it started with the War on Drugs when we allowed the Government to take away a few rights.. The we allowed groups like M.A.D.D. to take away few of our rights on their war on drinking. Then of course the war on terror. I hate to shudder what will it be like when we do get hit again.
For surveillance, and that alone, "Predators" are not required. That they are seeking "Predators" as opposed to drones incapable of being armed is ominous...
the infowarrior
We are heading in a terrible path.
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