Here in California, we have problems with many folks who fly their drones into Wildfires just to snoop. This gets in the way of rescue teams and water being delivered. If more drone owners don’t start using consideration of privacy or common sense respect for others, it is a sure invitation for more Government intervention. It will start with licensing fees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
(Yes, I know it's CGI but it's still cool.)
It is an invasion of privacy.
While I agree with the mission of the FAA in principle, patriots need to learn to question all actions of the corrupt federal government by first checking the Constitution to see if the states have expressly delegated to the feds the specific power to justify an action.
And in the case of the FAA, not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution the specific power to regulate drones, but neither have the states delegated to the feds the specific power to establish the FAA.
In other words, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned patriots about the corrupt federal government wrongly expanding its powers, little by little, outside the framework of the Constitution.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
In the case of the FAA, it is a good example of expansion of federal powers without the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state majority imo.
Note that it has long been impossible to reverse-engineer what the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers are based on its actions.
Wake up patriots !
The clock is ticking.
I predict an increase of “self-defense drones” - a new class of drone built with the purpose of serving the private market and designed to intercept and either run off intruding drones or take them out altogether.
Drone Warz!
“The best way to avoid that might be to not shoot down the thing down in the first place.”
Nope!
One flies over my property and STOPS and HOVERS, it has not lost commands. There is, somewhere, sumbitch looking through the camera lens at me.
I have the right to privacy, since I DID NOT SIGN ANY KIND OF WAIVER NEGATING SUCH CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!
Fly your little toy over my land and I will not have a problem but your robot is going to be a pile of parts.
Good for her.
Boom. Strong work!
that's a Glock on the business end of the drone
Sounds like 20 ga birdshot doesn’t break it down into small enough pieces. More punch is needed. 12 ga slug?
When you buy real estate unless you sign them away at closing you have air, water and mineral rights. I don’t know what it is now but it used to be air rights up to 1000 ft. Anybody flies a drone over our house gets it back in pieces. Its not an aircraft.
This is too easy.
Her neighbor is a Hollywood actor, Robert Duvall.
Mystery solved; drone just looking for dirt on Duvall.
but, that’s dangerous .. because sometimes you just end up in the dirt yourself.