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| Subject: Domestic Use Of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement Prompt Privacy Concerns Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:07 pm | |
| Domestic Use Of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement Prompt Privacy Concerns Washington Post - The suspect's house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed the man inside had a large stash of drugs and a cache of weapons, including high-caliber rifles. As dawn broke, a SWAT team waiting to execute a search warrant wanted a last-minute aerial sweep of the property, in part to check for unseen dangers. But there was a problem: The department's aircraft section feared that if it put up a helicopter, the suspect might try to shoot it down. So the Texas agents did what no state or local law enforcement agency had done before in a high-risk operation: They launched a drone. A bird-size device called a Wasp floated hundreds of feet into the sky and instantly beamed live video to agents on the ground. The SWAT team stormed the house and arrested the suspect.Click Here --- Full Story From M.o.1 --- Ask yourself exactly what they have been doing all of these years in Iraq and Afghanistan? Their whole game has been to learn how to wage war in urban environments. The troops already know how to raid houses and confiscate weapons. They know how to arrest,detain and even kill civilians in these other countries. They have learned over there that the easiest way to keep track of insurgents is to use these drones. This is a weapon that if we let these things take to the sky......war as officially been declared on the American people as far as I'm concerned. | |
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