Posted on 05/14/2012 2:14:49 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
The FAA is expected to announce plans to expand the use of domestic drones in American airspace. These would be similar to the unmanned aircraft that the U.S. has been using to target terrorists abroad. In the U.S., the surveillance systems would be used to track terrorists, drug dealers or to find missing children. But critics warn that the use of drones presents a major threat to our personal privacy.
Jonathan Hunt reports that there could be as many as 30,000 drones flying overhead within the next decade.
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Why bother with pulling them over, when you can just launch a missile, no need to look inside.
Drones will probably be used to prevent money and precious metals smuggling out of the US. Some of the money will be drug money, but others may just want get their money out of the US and don’t want the money to be tracked by the IRS.
Those “clay pigeons” are well out of shotgun range and they have infra-red and hellfire missiles. If we’re forced by O to fight to save our Country the last thing we need are drones to contend with.
Think of all the lost children they must have found.
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