californians......actually voted to return moonbeam to the state house....
its the water
I thought Jerry Brown was supposed to be a for-the-people kind of guy.
It’s very tempting for myself, a conservative, not to vote in California elections, but I pray someday there will be enough voters voting for a change to the insanity. Our elected officials have recently allocated 30 million dollars to pay for the relocation of birds on the old Bay bridge to the new Bay bridge.
I wonder what the framers would have thought about some state clown flying by their windows in a hot air baloon spying upon their doings without so much as a warrant? My sense is not so much.
We have gone full circle now, rather than the state being open to the voters, it is not closed for anything except what it dains to let out while the citizens are free to be spied upon at whim. Sad times.
We are told daily that liberals are the only ones who will protect our civil liberties.
Has the WSJ now put all of its content behind a paywall?
Is OK for the chumps in CA - but here in TX we still have shotguns, and while we’re not the best shots, we have lots of ammo.
Weirldy enough, I agree with Governor Brown on this one. If police are required to have warrants to use RC helicopters that are equipped with cameras then that law would be misused to say that everyone has to get permission to use RC helicopters equipped with cameras.
That would not be in the best interests of freedom and liberty. I’d rather let the police use these things as they see fit than to let the police start regulating whether or not private citizens can use these things to keep an eye on the police.
Let the police post drones outside Jerry’s windows and see how fast he changes his mind.
The program was recently scaled back as acceptance of marijuana has changed. However, it seems to me that the precedence has been set for flyover surveillance of properties.
If helicopter flyovers were legal, why are drone flyovers not?
-PJ