America’s police state: The drones are coming
Friday, February 10, 2012
A new federal law accelerating domestic use of government aerial surveillance drones brings America frighteningly close to an Orwellian police state.
President Obama is expected to sign the FAA Reauthorization Act, which expedites approval for federal, state and local police to use these drones. The Federal Aviation Administration’s existing case-by-case approach is chilling enough — it’s being sued over its refusal to disclose publicly which agencies use drones and how they’re used.
Still, it’s known that the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection arm uses drones domestically. Now imagine local police drones constantly, unblinkingly tracking — without warrants — your every move and aspect of your property.
Far-fetched? Hardly. Great Britain right now is testing the use of drones to enforce government-subsidized agricultural policies. If successful, drones will replace satellite surveillance. The French government already monitors wine producers with drones.
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Literally NOBODY with a scintilla of intelligence can say they were not warned.
Given that the NDAA effectively suspends habeus corpus, and was signed into law while everyone was whooping it up on new years eve, it should be front and center of conservative news topics and discussion, yet seems attract surprisingly little interest. It’s almost as if people think by ignoring it, it will magically go away. If this were a thread about Rosie chocking to death on a chicken bone, it would have several hundred comments by now.