30,000 drones over the US by 2020

[CannaBunkerMan]

...by piece...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterpris...op+Stories+2))&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

 

[Stoner4Life]

Being spied on is one thing,
don't forget about the missiles.

Remember that kid Al-awaki?
An American Citizen.
The precedent has been set.

and??? I would've slit his throat myself.......

 

[MadBuddhaAbuser]

Did find this though.......

http://www.reporterherald.com/opinion/editorial/ci_19791790


Course they won't bomb us unless there is major, major civil disturbance or militia activity. It will start with surveillance.

With the laws and executive orders being passed...... a bunch of government officials must think those levels of Civil Disturbances are likely. If you are assigning a combat battalion to US soil in part for crowd control since 2008.... someone is expecting something.

Peace

Yeah its not like we have people protesting in the streets everyday or anything.........oh wait.


This country is in seriously bad shape.

 

[SacredBreh]

I agree Stoner4Life but the problem is if they can do it to him, they can do it to U!

I agree Stoner4Life but the problem is if they can do it to him, they can do it to U!

I have always found this a little haunting and so true to form of human behavior.

Everyone I am sure knows it was written about Nazi's rise in Germany but it is a good lesson. The past repeats itself unless prevented from doing so..... and even then.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
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Pray or what ever it is you do that the growing 20% of Americans (I would argue greater) are all wrong....... 30,000 drones even for surveillance is a hell of a lot of drones.

Peace

 

[CannaBunkerMan]

...by piece...

Drones Set Sights on U.S. Skies
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...d-to-fly.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

..."Drone proponents say the privacy concerns are overblown. Randy McDaniel, chief deputy of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in Conroe, Tex., near Houston, whose agency bought a drone to use for various law enforcement operations, dismissed worries about surveillance, saying everyone everywhere can be photographed with cellphone cameras anyway. “We don’t spy on people,” he said. “We worry about criminal elements.”" ...

Well, Randy says that they won't use it to spy on people, so I'm cool.

 

[MadBuddhaAbuser]

...by piece...

Drones Set Sights on U.S. Skies
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...d-to-fly.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

..."Drone proponents say the privacy concerns are overblown. Randy McDaniel, chief deputy of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in Conroe, Tex., near Houston, whose agency bought a drone to use for various law enforcement operations, dismissed worries about surveillance, saying everyone everywhere can be photographed with cellphone cameras anyway. “We don’t spy on people,” he said. “We worry about criminal elements.”" ...

Well, Randy says that they won't use it to spy on people, so I'm cool.

Yeah I'm cool with it too. I trust cops.

Submitted by Michael Allen on Dec 13, 2011 A Predator Drone, the same aerial vehicle used by the CIA to track down and assassinate terrorists and militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was used to hunt down the Brossarts, a North Dakota family who allegedly wouldn't give back three cows and their calves that wandered onto their 3,000-acre farm this summer.

The head of the Brossart family are Susan and husband Rodney, who live with seven of their eight adult children in a compound which includes a house, trailer and two RVs

Daughter Abby allegedly hit an officer during the arrests, which included brother Alex, after the family was spied on by a government drone

Sons Thomas and Jacob were also arrested in the bust after a 16-hour stand off, which stemmed from the half dozen stolen cows

The Brossarts are the first known American citizens subjected to Predator Drones that the federal government has made available to some local sheriffs and police chiefs - all without Congressional approval or search warrants.

Local authorities say the Brossarts are known for being armed, anti-government separatists whose sprawling farm is used as a compound.

When the cattle wandered onto the Brossarts' land, Sheriff Kelly Janke, who patrols a county of just 3,000 people, rounded up some sheriff's deputies and arrested Brossart for failing to report the stray livestock.

They also took away his daughter, Abby, after she allegedly hit an officer during the arrest.

When cops returned to collect the lost cattle, three of Brossart's sons (Alex, Jacob and Thomas) confronted Sheriff Janke with rifles and shotguns and would not allow officers on the farm, saying the unregulated use of the drones is intrusive.

That's when the sheriff summoned a $154 million MQ-9 Predator B drone from nearby Grand Forks Air Force Base, where it was patrolling the US-Canada border for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Using a handheld device that picked up the video camera footage from the spy plane, Sheriff Janke was able to watch the movements of everyone on the farm.

During an 16-hour standoff, the sheriff and his deputies waited until they could see the remaining Brossarts put down their weapons. Then, dressed in SWAT gear, they stormed the compound and arrested the three Brossart sons. No shots were fired.

Susan Brossart, the matriarch of the clan, was later arrested, as well.

Police also recovered the cattle, valued at $6,000.

The family faces several felony charges and have repeatedly not shown up for court after posting $250,000 bail.

US Customs and Border Protection agents fly eight Predator remote-controlled aircraft to patrol the American borders with Canada and Mexico, searching for smugglers and illegal immigrants.

Allowing local sheriffs and police chiefs access to spy planes happened without public discussion or the approval of Congress. And it has privacy advocates crying foul, saying the unregulated use of the drones is intrusive.

"There is no question that this could become something that people will regret," former Rep Jane Harman, a Democrat, told the Los Angles Times.

 

[MadBuddhaAbuser]

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/soci...a-police-use-predator-drone-catch-cow-thieves

.forgot the link

 

[canavi]

If I see drones flying over my land a .30-06 might find it.

 

[MadBuddhaAbuser]

If they are flying 150 million drones to find 6 fucking cows, I don't understand how any of you think you are safe.

 

[SacredBreh]

^^^^^^^^
That is no shit. Testing and conditioning the public. Not many rustlers out there so no one relates to it. Start out small and increase the number of stories let out slowly so the public gets use to it.

Why else do you think they even released the fact they used it? Could have done their thing, if it was so necessary, and then said nothing. "Compound" sort of like Waco or Ruby Ridge, now a house and a couple of trailers are a "compound"...... makes for better propaganda effect.

Man I hope this country wakes up in time...... it is happening but it might be too late.

Peace

 

[mrcreosote]

30,000 drones over the US by 2020

Oh Goody...

Because the Skeet Range sometimes has a long wait.

 

[Dr.Young]

Yall seriously think that pussy RC microbot shit will hurt someone? Ever hear of a pipebomb? lol....EMP, Water..... anything.... Those things aren't nothing but toys for the naive to stupor over.

I'll damn sure have my hose ready for em. ROFL

 

[Dope time]

^^ Sure I heard "a Drone" is what Wiped out Some Al Queda Operative in the Far east ?

 

[floralheart]

There have probably been tons of drones overhead for the past 20 years. Just saying.

I've seen plenty of military craft overhead my entire life, especially the past 10 years.