Forum Post: Drones over america
Posted 12 years ago on June 21, 2012, 1:17 a.m. EST by OldCrow
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"….The buildup of the infrastructure of a police state is directed at the massive social upheavals on the horizon. The ruling elite anticipates that the American working class will not tolerate indefinitely attack after attack on its living standards, cuts to social programs, and unending war. Opposition will inevitably develop. When it does, armed drones will be watching…"
….Underlying the collapse of democratic rights is the spectacular growth in social inequality. That growth has been substantiated by official figures, such as the latest statistics from the Federal Reserve Board showing the plummeting of the median net worth of US families by 38.9 percent between 2007 and 2010, even as corporate profits soared. Democracy is inconsistent with the resulting conditions of unprecedented social inequality…"
Drones over America
21 June 2012
Recently revealed plans to deploy tens of thousands of military drones over the US mainland in the coming years expose a significant component of the developing infrastructure of an American police state. According to government estimates, 30,000 drones could be buzzing overhead within the next decade. These drones will operate out of at least 110 military bases located in 39 states around the country. Ordinance is already being stockpiled, pilots and crews are being trained and airspace is being cordoned off. These drones range from small surveillance planes weighing a few pounds to armed airships carrying thousands of pounds of equipment and armaments. Under development is a new generation of micro air vehicles (MAVs) [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_UAV ] that are no larger than insects and capable of entering homes and workplaces undetected to photograph, record and even kill. Hundreds of drones are already deployed over the US, with local law enforcement agencies acquiring their own drones as well. And these are just the drones we know about. According to an ABC News report, “Drones can carry facial recognition cameras, license plate scanners, thermal imaging cameras, open WiFi sniffers, and other sensors. And they can be armed.” The precise technological capabilities of these drones, developed by defense giants such as Northrop Grumman at a cost of billions of dollars, is a closely guarded state secret…
Check out Occupy Tampa's facebook page to see all the cameras they have put up. If it was just for the RNC it would be closer to understandable, but they arent coming down once hte slimey politicians leave.
And a drone crashed over Maryland the other day.
Where is all the Rage Against the Machine?
I am fine with intelligence gathering and all but drones over cities is Obamas police state ideals. I'm fine with drones in war zones and all but this is wrong. Now if the president were in town giving a speech or something then I guess I could see it but only that.
Write or call your state reps and ask them to support the "“Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2012" recently introduced by RAND PAUL.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/senate-bill-aims-to-crack-down-on-domestic-drone-surveillance/
Well done. And thank you. Jokingly, does bug spray work on these new little gnats? Or a fly swatter?...Just when I think that I had heard the worst, there's always more to come. It seems as though we are going to have "to take back this government," as the Tea Party coined the phrase. (Absolutely no affiliation on my part!) We probably need to start running our own for Congress (their idea again) among hundreds of other opportunities to clean up the foreign invaders that have hijacked our government, like the banks, multi-nationals, UN, World bank, etc. I have one more question though, with all the spying and camera invasion work that Facebook does, why do they need gnat-drones? I'm still waiting for the nano particle bullets that will shoot out of everyone's computer on board cameras and steering wheels.
Navy drone crashes into Chesapeake Bay: What's a drone doing in Maryland skies? (Video) June 12, 2012
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2012/jun/12/navy-drone-crashes-chesapeake-bay-whats-drone-doin/