[Mier]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

All is well! There is nothing to fear! Only the guilty need worry! /sarcasm (really necessary?)

[FishinTX]

Green drones will be subsidized by the Government. They will help stimulate the economy and create jobs!!

[Graewoulf]

Chilly Skies over Amerika

Remember, if you whine and moan,
The Government may answer with a Drone.

[mnehring]

The new model of drone is pretty cool.

What's the worst that could happen?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Aren’t these drones a threat to general aviation?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Hellfire missiles and damnation coming to an American terrorist near you!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Hellfire missiles and damnation coming to an American terrorist like you!

[DBrow]

We could use them to get a gross in-out body count at inner city polling places, the ones with 99% turnout.

[Whenifhow]

Similar thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2843949/posts?page=15#15
Excerpt:

I have just looked over the Senate version and here is the passage - Under Title VI: Aviation Research

(Sec. 607) Authorizes the FAA Administrator to: (1) arrange with the NAS to assess unmanned aircraft systems; and (2) establish three two-year cost-shared pilot projects in sparsely populated, low-density Class G air traffic airspace new test sites to conduct developmental work and service testing to improve unmanned aircraft for safe integration into the National Airspace System. Authorizes appropriations for FY2010-FY2011.

Directs the FAA Administrator to make available on the FAA’s website a five-year “roadmap” for introduction of unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System.

You would not believe the scope of this thing - the sole purpose of this piece of legislation is to grow the Government and to do it fast, while providing special exemptions for special people who promised to vote for it if they “got theirs”.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country

What possible justification can there be for this? There is no massive crime wave sweeping the nation - in fact the crime rate is the same as it was 40 years ago. And the murder rate is the lowest it's been since the Kennedy administration.

Police departments are like any other government bureaucracy - they seek relentlessly to expand their power, reach and budget. In the case of big city police departments, that apparently involves buying military equipment and using it against US citizens.

[pallis]

We should never have let them start treating us like terrorists.

[astratt7]

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.

[familyop]

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/