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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
CNET ^ | March 2, 2013 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 03/02/2013 6:09:55 PM PST by Vince Ferrer

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.
1 posted on 03/02/2013 6:10:05 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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The documents show that CBP specified that the "tracking accuracy should be sufficient to allow target designation," and the agency notes on its Web site that its Predator B series is capable of "targeting and weapons delivery" (the military version carries multiple 100-pound Hellfire missiles). CBP says, however, that its Predator aircraft are unarmed.
2 posted on 03/02/2013 6:12:57 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

How do they track cell phones with the battery removed?


3 posted on 03/02/2013 6:15:05 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Vince Ferrer

Are blow darts covered by the 2nd Amendment?


4 posted on 03/02/2013 6:16:15 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Vince Ferrer

So your Cell phone gets you to pay for #obamaphone and its a targeting and tracking device for Big Sis all for the privilege of paying $100 a month to Verizon.


5 posted on 03/02/2013 6:16:49 PM PST by omega4179
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To: Paladin2

Gun Laws?


6 posted on 03/02/2013 6:16:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

In a Faraday Cage?


7 posted on 03/02/2013 6:17:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: omega4179

I think I will cancel my cell.


8 posted on 03/02/2013 6:18:52 PM PST by omega4179 ( Morpheus: You are a slave, Neo)
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To: Vince Ferrer

I’m rapidly becoming a paranoid conspiracy theorist.


9 posted on 03/02/2013 6:19:02 PM PST by JimSEA ( “what difference does it make?”)
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To: JimSEA
I’m rapidly becoming a paranoid conspiracy theorist.

I'm becoming a paranoid conspiracy realist.

10 posted on 03/02/2013 6:21:04 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: JimSEA

I just call it pragmatic now.


11 posted on 03/02/2013 6:22:04 PM PST by kevslisababy
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To: Vince Ferrer

Nothing a Bofors 40mm Light Anti-Aircraft Gun won’t fix.

Start smuggling them in and fixing them up?


12 posted on 03/02/2013 6:22:43 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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13 posted on 03/02/2013 6:30:49 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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This is the kind of thing which makes the 2nd Amendment impotent because the fullest spirit of its intent would have allowed civilian citizens to arm themselves with RPGs, anti-aircraft weaponry, and anything else to take down robotic agents of war operated by a hostile national government.


14 posted on 03/02/2013 6:30:49 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: kevslisababy; Vince Ferrer

Whatever we call it, it’s coming like a loaded freight train.


15 posted on 03/02/2013 6:32:56 PM PST by JimSEA ( “what difference does it make?”)
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To: James C. Bennett
"This is the kind of thing which makes the 2nd Amendment impotent because the fullest spirit of its intent would have allowed civilian citizens to arm themselves with RPGs, anti-aircraft weaponry, and anything else to take down robotic agents of war operated by a hostile national government."

The drone pilots still have to get to and from work, buy groceries, fill their cars up etc.

Just sayin'...

16 posted on 03/02/2013 6:34:09 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Electric Eye - Judas Priest

Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do

You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye

Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there

I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Protected. Detective. Electric eye


17 posted on 03/02/2013 6:39:12 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Candor7

This will work, lot cheaper...

http://www.o-like.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9&products_id=168

But you’ll need these...

http://www.dragonlasers.com/Laser-Glasses-UV-to-Green-Lasers-Protection-190-548nm.html

Should be treated as a firearm; flash your eyes can be blind for life, off reflective surfaces can bounce off in another direction for long distances and permanently destroy other’s eyesight too.


18 posted on 03/02/2013 6:58:55 PM PST by TheBigJ
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To: James C. Bennett
This is the kind of thing which makes the 2nd Amendment impotent because the fullest spirit of its intent would have allowed civilian citizens to arm themselves with RPGs, anti-aircraft weaponry, and anything else to take down robotic agents of war operated by a hostile national government.

We need to start arguing that. The continuous escalation of infringements not only of the second amendment, but of the fourth, will cause a backlash. They will use the backlash, which they caused, as justification for their escalation, and escalate more. They are simply in a mindset that they cannot stop. This isn't going to end well.

I truly believe that these experiments (Stanford Prison Experiment) and (Milgram Experiment) were seminal works in human psychology, and are directly applicable with what we are seeing played out today. And it is the best way to understand it. Our DHS agents will become a jack booted gestapo, because step by step that is the role they have been given. The experiments prove that if you put a good man into a room with gestapo weapons, gestapo uniforms, gestapo tactics, don't be surprised at what comes out of the room. It isn't going to be a good man.

Anti second amendment types often toss out the position that if you don't limit the second amendment, people will be able to own nuclear bombs. But we do have a clear constitutional need today to be able to counter tyrannical power at any level of technology the federal government can throw at us, not just rifles. How that happens is something no one is thinking of yet. It could be that the national guard becomes a state guard, as checks and balances against the power of the federal goverment, or that the unorganized militia should start forming again. Clearly an individual does not have the resources to fight this if used by a tyrannical government against us.

19 posted on 03/02/2013 7:03:29 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
I wonder if Vlad would be so nice and give me one of these. Just for target practice


20 posted on 03/02/2013 7:06:47 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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