Oh hai NSA
There is already precident for using drones domestically in order to monitor livestock on farms, and also by the EPA to monitor water matters as premise to levy huge fines.
Currently weapons makers are looking to mount small .50 weapons (variations on the familiar Barrett .50 cal) on smallish drones (on the HUNTER scale).
Watch for a spike in the sale of practice rifle grenades. A rifle grenade, dragging a long string or light rope is a two-dollar way to bring down one of these things within a range of maybe 900 vertical feet. Mueller had best include “standoff” in his beand new operational guidelines. That is to say keep his nose at least that far away from anybody’s business. Any rifle that can mount a 22 millimeter grenade launcher can fire a dummy line-dragging grenade.
There are people out here who are designing systems to disrupt the control of drones domestically. There are others who are working on designs to take control of domestic drones. Then there are those that are working on being able to destroy drones electronically.
If the Government is going to trample on the People, they better not complain when the people trample back. I’m waiting gleefully for when the first drone is “hijacked” by some 15 year old basement dwelling computer geek.
This was reported during the alabama hostage event. So this has been known. Guidelines are needed before this gets out of control. A drone that is providing surveillance equivalent to what a helicopter would provide is one thing. A micro-drone that could hover outside a window is another thing. Next there will be droid cops and drones that can just wipe you out without a warrant.
All those people who talked about this the past several years or so, were labeled, “Tin foiling wearing wackos”.
Frauds and biggov neocons abound...
While the FBI and other biggov agencies monitored and spyed on law abiding American citizens, the government rolled out the red carpet for thousands of Muslims, including the Boston bomb terrorist...Even after being warned, government gave them tax paid prizes and gifts worth hundreds of thousands.
All this occurring while government winks and nods at the conga-line of millions entering our country illegally, at will...
Yay! We're only a little bit pregnant with tyranny.
Then he went over and sat about ten feet away on the brick wall. He just say there for about twenty minutes. Not really, moving at all. We noticed he had a plastic strip around one leg.
My husband and I both looked and each other and said, "Drone"
Now of course, I don't think it was a drone but the idea we both, even jokingly, said that it was a drone that honed in on the loud keywords Alex Jones was probably speaking is kinda telling in itself.
“Sir, you are using drones. Reporter Michael Hastings, who has been a little critical of the Administration lately, died in a crash of his Mercedes so powerful that the engine was thrown som e100 feet from the fiery remains of the car. Are your US drones loaded with Hellfire missiles?”
“Sir, you are using drones. Reporter Michael Hastings, who has been a little critical of the Administration lately, died in a crash of his Mercedes so powerful that the engine was thrown som e100 feet from the fiery remains of the car. Are your US drones loaded with Hellfire missiles?”
...and many local and state police forces are salivating over the thought of using them as well.
So has the FBI been engaged in top secret spying on Americans? If so, who authorized this abuse of the justice system?
I suppose that is a rhetorical question.
My husband spotted a drone in the Orlando/Disneyworld area a couple of years ago during the Caylee Anthony search. It was reported that drones were to aid in the search on the news.
http://thewashingtonfancy.com/2011/07/06/obama-orders-drone-strikes-on-casey-anthony/1374