[Vince Ferrer]

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.

[Vince Ferrer]

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.

[Paladin2]

How do they track cell phones with the battery removed?

[Paladin2]

Are blow darts covered by the 2nd Amendment?

[JimSEA]

I’m rapidly becoming a paranoid conspiracy theorist.

[Candor7]

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

Start smuggling them in and fixing them up?

[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.

[dfwgator]

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

[darkwing104]

I wonder if Vlad would be so nice and give me one of these. Just for target practice

[freekitty]

It also tells you that the Sec of DHS has a limp dick.

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[Seizethecarp]

“In the border area of California and Arizona, it may be actively dangerous for the law-abiding to not carry firearms precisely due to the illegal flow of drugs and immigrants across the border in those areas,...”

How about on the streets of any big US city?

[neverdem]

Thanks for posting.

[bert]

Meanwhile, in 2012, wireless security cameras were installed on interstate hiways. This is not just in cities but along rural areas as well.

If you are on the lam, avoid the interstates