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I am sure there will be some who find nothing wrong with surveillance drones being used against Americans...
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Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said.
Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North Dakota. Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.
He also called in a Predator B drone.
As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.
But that was just the start. Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.
If they have a search warrant for the area they are flying over, then I don't have a problem with this. But I suspect there will be many drone flights without warrants.
Maybe people will shoot some of these invasive drones out of the sky.
Faced with the possibility of Military cutbacks the manufacturers are looking for other markets for their expensive toys. I expect we will see a lot more of this. I also expect the drones will become much smaller and quieter to allow use in suburban and urban environments. I also expect some of the higher cost private detective agencies to acquire and use these devices in private disputes. Like hovering outside a motel window and documenting some fools infidelities or conducting industrial investigations. This will be a world of "Dark Angel" but without Jessie Alba.
As far as the rustlers are concerned the drone was a good idea but a Barret Rifle with a night vision scope would have been a permanent and cheaper solution to the thieves.
Poor analogy. You should have used "plane has already left the ground". Trains can be stopped on the tracks. Airplanes always have to land; controlled or not.
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