Big brother in the sky!
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Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponised.
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In February of this year, Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act, with its provision to deploy fleets of drones domestically. Jennifer Lynch, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that this followed a major lobbying effort, "a huge push by [...] the defense sector" to promote the use of drones in American skies: 30,000 of them are expected to be in use by 2020, some as small as hummingbirds – meaning that you won't necessarily see them, tracking your meeting with your fellow-activists, with your accountant or your congressman, or filming your cruising the bars or your assignation with your lover, as its video-gathering whirs.
more @
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/coming-drone-attack-america (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/coming-drone-attack-america)
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And Obozo is absolutely, positively sure that no one will ever put him in the target sights?
I'm thinking there is going to be a market for "drone killing" weapons - no-lethal (to humans) weapons than can be used to detect and take out the smaller drones.
Not to mention jamming equipment!
And, of course, there are going to be a whole bunch of legal questions to be answered, i.e. how high over your property does your "property line" go?
Let's say you spot micro drone over your property at an altitude of about 20 feet. Are you within your legal right to either capture or, perhaps even, destroy it for trespassing?
Quote from: Darth Fife on December 23, 2012, 05:20:08 PM
I'm thinking there is going to be a market for "drone killing" weapons - no-lethal (to humans) weapons than can be used to detect and take out the smaller drones.
Not to mention jamming equipment!
And, of course, there are going to be a whole bunch of legal questions to be answered, i.e. how high over your property does your "property line" go?
Let's say you spot micro drone over your property at an altitude of about 20 feet. Are you within your legal right to either capture or, perhaps even, destroy it for trespassing?
It will open Pandora's Box from both side for sure.
Quote from: mdgiles on December 23, 2012, 04:08:39 PM
And Obozo is absolutely, positively sure that no one will ever put him in the target sights?
The big governmnet types never seem to think that they will be on the business end of their pet legislation.
At my age what I find is. IF big government is thinking about it, they have been doing it for a long time.
Quote from: walkstall on December 24, 2012, 06:22:08 AM
At my age what I find is. IF big government is thinking about it, they have been doing it for a long time.
Amen!
Drones have already been used by the EPA to spy on Pig Cattle Farmers
http://news.yahoo.com/epa-drones-spy-farmers-nebraska-iowa-150411579.html (http://news.yahoo.com/epa-drones-spy-farmers-nebraska-iowa-150411579.html)
I also had read that 353 law enforcement office already had drones.
Probably a good time to recruit some expert hackers and see if these tools of war can be turned on their masters.
Quote from: TowardLiberty on December 26, 2012, 07:45:06 AM
Probably a good time to recruit some expert hackers and see if these tools of war can be turned on their masters.
Excellent observation. I also see a homegrown Militia learning ways to combat these tools of intrusion, as in EMP pulse weaponry, high intensity lasers to use against them, all of which will have new laws against possession of course.
We need to think ahead and see that the people of this country are allowed possession of nonlethal defensive weaponry.
Quote from: Solar on December 26, 2012, 08:48:32 AM
Excellent observation. I also see a homegrown Militia learning ways to combat these tools of intrusion, as in EMP pulse weaponry, high intensity lasers to use against them, all of which will have new laws against possession of course.
We need to think ahead and see that the people of this country are allowed possession of nonlethal defensive weaponry.
Agreed.
But we should probably shut up about it, too!
Quote from: TowardLiberty on December 26, 2012, 09:12:35 AM
Agreed.
But we should probably shut up about it, too!
:laugh:
I have no doubt they are already way ahead of us on what laws they plan on implementing, it's up to us to be aware and keep them from doing it.