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Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress
The Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | By Shaun Waterman

Posted on 02/08/2012 7:28:31 PM PST by Mier

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To: bigfootbob
RC Kamikazes to the rescue? I bet they'd be much cheaper to manufacture than the drones they destroy. Heck, you might even be able to hang small grapnels off them and do a little drone trolling.
21 posted on 02/08/2012 9:46:54 PM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Trod Upon

My God. What kind of country are we becoming? We’ve got gang shootings every night, corrupt police who beat the crap out of folks, aliens taking over whole neighborhoods, who knows what coming accross the border unimpeded, crazy people killing their kids in horrible ways, foul language as normal speech, gay people and their law-makers deciding it’s their “right” to enter into HOLY matrimony, I could go on and on...but what does our government focus on????? Writing memos to each other about watching out for the American citizen who opposes their tyranny and incompetence, trying to call them potential”terrorists.” And now they want to fly spy craft around in AMERICA to spy on its citizens.... heck I’d be all for it if I knew it would be used to rat out possible jihadists but with who we got in charge now that won’t be the case.


22 posted on 02/08/2012 10:54:02 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: Mier

I hate to say it people, but when me and my husband retire....I don’t think I can stay here anymore. The sweep and scale of our rights and privacy being taken away is mind boggling. Of course nobody is doing anything about it.
This is what we get for voting in a bunch of Republicans and Tea Partiers? Really? If America refuses to see what is being done...then I don’t know....I guess I will be enjoying some other place to live, because we do not have the freedoms we once enjoyed anymore.....my heart is broken.


23 posted on 02/08/2012 11:03:53 PM PST by astratt7 (obama,muslim,politics)
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To: Mier; Freedom_Fighter_2001; Graewoulf; july4thfreedomfoundation; Jack Hydrazine; Jonty30; ...
There's information behind the following links for a general profile of most of the multi-partisan constituents behind such legislation. IMO, bigfootbob was close on what we'll probably see. ...much of that already happening, even in remote areas around our morally bankrupt country.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/


24 posted on 02/08/2012 11:28:31 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: mnehring

Great Analogy.. Whats is going on in our country?


25 posted on 02/08/2012 11:31:43 PM PST by crazydad
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001

My thoughts exactly.

While we are on the subject, how about we put a drone over every single assho!e in congress. Let’s start with Reid and Pelosi.

In all seriousness, I am convinced that both of them and their clans are out killing babies and small animals in their spare time.

Patriot Act, NDAA and now drones. How much longer until they put cameras in our homes, cars and places of work.

Big brother is here, America. We are truly f*cked!


26 posted on 02/09/2012 12:12:58 AM PST by Ernie Kaputnik ((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
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To: kelly4c

Yep. It looks like we’re becoming a country of two classes: 1) The “public employees” constantly seeking to increase their hold over the peons whose labor they confiscate for their own benefit. 2) The productive sucker class who work their asses off and are taxed and regulated to death for it, all in the name of “benefits and services” they would not chose to buy if given the option. In other words, we are slowly splitting into two nations occupying the same borders and, probably, it will eventually work out as well as it did in Africa and the Balkans. But I’m a pessimist on the subject because I think there is a toxic mix of the clueless and some truly malevolent people infesting our government these days, and leftists who lose their inhibitions have historically had a habit of killing mass numbers of innocents before they are finally defeated. I see signs of the same turning inward of the security apparatus that we experienced during the Clinton years, and I worry that bad things are coming, if not from our own government then from a foreign foe who will recognize and exploit the opportunity.


27 posted on 02/09/2012 10:56:39 PM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Bshaw

Because they are out of other ideas of how to generate a $2 trillion deficit after we abolish the military.


28 posted on 02/11/2012 2:54:11 AM PST by tdscpa
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