Drones Against America?

Those includes prohibitions on drones being outfitted with

  • anti-personnel devices
  • tasers
  • tear gas and against any data recorded by the drones being used in criminal prosecutions

Rutherford Institute is calling on local, state, and government officials to adopt legislation that would limit domestic use of drones, in an environment in which “at least 30,000 drones are expected to occupy U.S. airspace by 2020.”

Mr. Whitehead stated:

“If we have learned one thing from President Obama’s rash use of drones in the United States’ counterterrorism efforts overseas, it is that this technology is too powerful, too lethal and too indiscriminate for us to allow it to be unleashed on the American populace before any real protocols to protect our safety and privacy rights have been put in place,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead. “We cannot afford to wait until after these drones have been deployed domestically to establish clear guidelines. Such an approach can only end in tragedy.” [Emphasis added.]

The American people have not even begun to consider what it would mean if the government “thought” a “terrorist” was in their neighborhood or even community and used drones.

Previously the question was whether people were willing to give up rights to feel safe from terrorists, but the question now posed by drones is quite literally, Are the American people ready to give up their lives and the lives of those dear to them?

Put most plainly, are people willing to be blown to smithereens to stop a suspected terrorist?

Would people in Boston have been?

Would any people in any American city have been?

1. Why was a private military contractor collecting US census data?

2. Why were they allowed to trespass on property across the country to take data that had not obtained a legal right to?

3. Why is the government collecting data that is linked directly to the capacity to send missiles into American homes?

4. Why was that targeting data sent to the White House?

5.. What would have prevented the president from ordering strikes in Boston under current law or his recent executive orders giving himself the right to assassinate anyone?

It goes without saying that the military contractors making the drones have a vested interest in using them.

Does it also go without saying that the results would, instead, be indistinguishable from war, and with exactly the same military contractors involved?

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