Posted on 10/09/2025 1:00:37 PM PDT by DFG
An online anarchist platform encouraged people on Wednesday to shine lasers at federal helicopters in Portland, Oregon, a crime that law enforcement officials say can create extreme danger for pilots.
A post on the leftist, Portland-focused website “Rose City Counter-Info” tells viewers to scatter throughout the city’s streets on Saturday for the attack — nicknamed “Laser Tag” — as federal agents respond to demonstrations near the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. The goal is to “ground” the helicopters by making it difficult to safely fly them and flash too many lasers for law enforcement to hunt down those using them, according to the anonymously-written post.
“All you need is a laser. Leave home – they can see where the laser is coming from,” the post reads. “Go to a park, a field, or some other public place, and once the clock strikes 9 unleash your beam at the cop copter. Mask up. Coordinate with friends to throw a laser party!”
“Let’s take back the night together!” the announcement continued. “It won’t take many of us to ground the helicopters!”
The post also tells allies to wear gloves and clean their laser pointers with alcohol in case they must dispose of it. A link in the text offers tips on keeping one’s DNA off an object.
Rose City Counter-Info did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) previously called out the website in July for “doxxing” ICE officers by publishing their names and home addresses. The agency promised prosecutions for such activity.
Federal prosecutors also charged a man with the crime of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft in Portland days before the Rose City Counter-Info post, alleging he aimed it at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter in September.
“The laser can cause blindness and spotting in vision, making it a challenge to find other aircraft and obstacles, which could lead to a catastrophic event,” an FBI agent said in a criminal complaint. One crew member in the helicopter had to avert his eyes while in flight due to the laser, the complaint said.
The DHS did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. The FBI’s Portland office declined to comment in an automated email response, citing the ongoing government shutdown.
President Donald Trump is pushing to bring National Guard troops to Portland over months of chaotic anti-ICE protests, which have corresponded with nearly 150 arrests near the local ICE facility. Oregon and Portland are jointly challenging his plan in court.
Other tactics by the protest mobs have included forcing homeless people to help distract or confront law enforcement at the ICE facility, according to Portland police.
Protesters should no longer tolerate “the federal regime” spying on them from helicopters, the Wednesday post declares.
“Actions that aim at destroying the capacity of our enemies to enforce control in simple and concrete ways can make more daring actions possible,” it says.
Glad your final answer was...no, I don’t really want to see anyone killed. I hope the angry venting has dissipated some. I know all about antifa and Portland. I refuse to go there. But, taking the next extreme step to shot people that should be in rehab, jail, insane asylum, out of the country or getting a job...is not the answer.
Yes, Charlie Kirk can’t state his opinion...because he was shot by someone who hated and disagreed with him.
Fast food diet.
How about “Puff the Magic Dragon?” I was a Towed Vulcan platoon leader in Germany. 3,000 rounds of 20mm ammunition can make a lot of noise.
We learned how to deal with insurgents in Vietnam bring back these ugly babies the OV10 was the best COIN aircraft made and the NOGS put the hurt on the VC commies.
A modern day version with modern hyperspectral imaging from UV to thermal plus active SAR and doppler millimeter wave radar. Leaves no hiding places clouds,fog,mist,smoke,trees irrelevant all are pierced by one or more of those sensors.
The Bronc brings the 20mm turret to the party and has 5 external hard points for air dropped killer drones by the hundreds. Fixed launch tubes pointed downwards inside a drop tank shaped outer housing in a 10x50 array popping out coke or Pringle can sized drones with ducted propfans on the tails,flip out stub fins and wings,AI driven CMOS dual lens camera in NIR,VIS,UV programmed to follow either a pulse coded laser spot or use the multispectral CMOS in AI mode for motion tracking of specific shapes and spectral signature every person has a unique shape and spec signature like a fingerprint once locked on the drone hunts it down until kamikaze boom time or since propfans like the kind used on model RC jets can ready 400 mph blunt force trauma at those impact speeds is fatal for humans anywhere in the upper thorax. Again you could also ginsu blade deploy right before impact.
Shoot first. Ask questions later.
Watch the video I just linked 20mm rotary cannon on a COIN loitering aircraft....perfection :)
For danger close have hundreds of modern AI Pringles can sized drones to drop and home in on individual commies then smash them to death at 400 mph impact speeds. 21at century tech is brutally effective. Ukraine proves that in spades.
That is a lot more fun stuff than we had with the SM 1 missiles back in the 1970’s when i was active. You younger guys sure know how to have fun!!
pistol packing drone Sig says the recoil has negligible effect on the drone. 9mm has a 150 meter or so effective range. Adding in SMASH Dragon AI tracking, and ballistic prediction software would make first shot hits 90% plus the system computes hundreds of times per second the IIP of the round based off range,wind fields,gyro angles ect. When the engage signal is sent the drone software targets the head and then tries to move the IIP point to the head the millisecond the two align it triggers the round to go off before the IIP can move off target.
https://www.twz.com/sig-sauer-shows-off-p365-pistol-armed-aerial-drone
SMASH Dragon is platform agnostic here is it in rifle form for shooting drones in flight out of the sky, hitting people on the ground is easy compared to that.
https://x.com/F4SuperBugfan89/status/1856446503759315104
Small drone flight time is limited by the lithium cells powering it. So why not use mini and micro rotary engines driving generator into a much smaller pack for peak loads...like a hybrid. From minutes flight to hours a factor of 30 more energy density.
https://scispace.com/pdf/design-and-experimental-results-of-small-scale-rotary-2mb7907p02.pdf
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