[rarestia]

*I searched and did not find this article posted.

This... this is bad. I think we're far beyond the point of no return, folks. Once these are in the air, any attempts at revolution will be futile, IMO.

[SusaninOhio]

I would expect this to make the piloting of private planes a little dicey.

That is most likely on of the intents. I sure don’t want to see one of those things coming at me when I am in a private plane.

I know they will fy higher than small planes, but they have to take off and land eventually.

[opentalk]

Spying on Europe’s farms with satellites and drones

[DuncanWaring]

Already happening in Europe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16545333

[Paladin2]

Congress is full of drones.

[wolfcreek]

Once we figure out their airspeed and altitude, they’ll make great targets.

[Borax Queen]

The skies are sure getting crowded, 30,000 drones to monitor us and all the weather modification (aka chemtrails) planes also, to sicken us and kill us off faster.

[TheBigJ]

Wars can’t be won with air power alone. In addition, the common citizen can get a drone up, not to mention hack into systems.

Question is with all these drones, how do they not pose a risk to civilian aircraft? If feds are following someone on the ground how will they pay attention to their route?

[af_vet_rr]

This... this is bad. I think we're far beyond the point of no return, folks. Once these are in the air, any attempts at revolution will be futile, IMO.

ONCE THESE ARE IN THE AIR?

My friend, they already are in the air.

We already have these in Texas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2799979/posts.

"Civilian" law enforcement in Montgomery County spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to buy drones to watch the taxpayers, and being good little sheep, the taxpaying residents of Montgomery County don't seem too concerned. Sure, some FReepers were upset, but sadly there don't appear to be many FReepers around. Not many Conservatives left around the Houston area.

Texas in general is fast filling up with all kinds of cameras to watch the citizens/subjects, and I won't be surprised if more areas buy their own drones.