Posted on 07/21/2012 2:37:17 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
On July 26, the U.S. Air National Guard will get the green light to begin firing lasers from unmanned attack drones in a vast swath of skies over North Dakota, despite the concerns of local commercial pilots. At the Devils Lake home of the North Dakota Army National Guard, pilots train on MQ-1 Predator drones -- the most prevalent unmanned attack
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The Empire Strikes Back. So sad it’s gotten this far.
The Empire Strikes Back. So sad it’s gotten this far.
North Dakota? Oil industry? Why not fly them over Chicago and have “accidents”?
Don’t worry. They will only be lasering low level domestic terrorists. Oh yeh, I forgot thats us.
D.C.
Ain’t no big deal. All of us have been burned by the government before.
From Krauthammer :
“I’m going to go hard left on you here, I’m going ACLU. I don’t want regulations, I don’t want restrictions, I want a ban on this. Drones are instruments of war. The Founders had a great aversion to any instruments of war, the use of the military inside even the United States. It didn’t like standing armies, it has all kinds of statutes of using the army in the country.
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home. Yes, you can say we have satellites, we’ve got Google Street View and London has a camera on every street corner but that’s not an excuse to cave in on everything else and accept a society where you’re always under — being watched by the government. This is not what we want.
I would say that you ban it under all circumstances and I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I an predicting that the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country.”
Fer sure a martyr.
From the article:
“The lasers aren’t intended as weapons...they are targeting lasers fixed on a spot on the ground, which can be used to steer other explosives to a target.”
I use lasers at work and at home; it ain’t no big deal.
Very misleading article from Fox. The lasers are not weapons. They are used for targeting. And all the training will be done within a military base.
North Dakota? Oil industry?That was my first thought. They HATE the oil industry.
A citizen can be thrown in prison for pointing a pocket laser pen at a plane, but a military laser in the sky, what can possibly go wrong. It just fades away after a few hundred miles I am sure.
Well, that makes all right, then...
just disguise yourself as a Muslim, you’ll be safe from this government
Let’s link them all together and call it Skynet.
What’s the big deal. The air force has had troops on the ground doing the targeting for decades. They now have the ability to laze targets beyond the reach and harms way for ground special ops guys.
This is a great step forward.
These articles and the reaction to them are an embarassing example of ill-informed panic.
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