Thursday, May 24, 2012

Look! In the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!

No....it ain't Superman, but it may be one of the latest micro remote controlled unmanned and soon to be armed aerial spy machines that may already be in operation in your state or city.  This type of machine literally comes from the minds of previous science fiction, but many in today's world are making them present day realities. They are no longer fiction.

The use remote controlled drones is nothing new. Americans have been watching the progress of the technology for the past twenty years during our middle east wars, but what we are seeing now is their proposed and implemented use against Americans domestically.

So if you thought the day would never come when your government could send an unmanned drone to your home to spy on you or worse? Well that day is here. They have the technology and the capability and they fully intend to use it.

Against you.

A quadrocopter drone equipped with a camera stands on display at the Zeiss stand on the first day of the CeBIT 2012 technology trade fair on March 6, 2012 in Hanover, Germany. (credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Domestic Drones

With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft.
Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration. But now, these drones are starting to be used domestically at an increasing rate.
The Federal Aviation Administration has allowed several police departments to use drones across the U.S. They are controlled from a remote location and use infrared sensors and high-resolution cameras.
Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Texas told The Daily that his department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone.
“Those are things that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out and in certain situations it might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle),” McDaniel told The Daily.

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