Fox News Analyst: First American To Shoot Down A Domestic Spy Drone 'Will Become A Folk Hero'

Business Insider ^ | 5/15/2012 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

[JohnKinAK]

Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist spoke about the use of drones for domestic spying last night.

He blasted the idea:

"A drone is a high-tech version of an old army. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys but not in America. Yes you can say we have satellites, we have Google Street, we have everything else, but that is no reason to accept a society where you are always watched by the government.

"I would predict the first guy who uses a second amendment weapon to bring a drone down who is hovering over his house will become a folk hero."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-analyst-first-american-to-shoot-down-a-domestic-spy-drone-will-become-a-folk-hero-2012-5#ixzz1uyNlHG00

[Jacquerie]

Good point. Every military advance prompts a countermeasure!

[Charles Martel]

First person to shoot down a spy drone from a R/C helicopter will become a folk hero who is not in jail.

Food for thought...

[MrB]

Mmmmm.... Heath kitkat....

[matt04]

I’m assuming they have FLIR cameras on them. That means they can probably pick up the heat from inside houses but not actual people.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I figure a good goose load should do it!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Guideable solid fuel rocket???

Something as small as a drone, 30,000 feet up, would be terribly hard to see wouldn’t it? As well as not being able to get very good pictures of the ground?

If closer, how about flying a kite into it?

[SandRat]

Retired experienced London Blitz RAF Spitfire pilots have new job opportunity. Instead of Nazi Buzz Bombs it will now be Obama/Napaliotano Drones.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

First person to shoot down a spy drone from a R/C helicopter will become a folk hero who is not in jail.

Or incinerated by a Hellfire missile.

[PGR88]

Gun Shop Owner: “And this is for shooting down domestic spy drones.”

Homer: “Oh, I don’t need anything like that..… YET.”

[Robe]

I have images in my mind of some poor SOB in his Cessna 150 practicing “turns around a point” that gets mistaken for a drone........could be like flying over Hanoi in the old days..LOL

[RandallFlagg]

*sigh*

Looks like I need to hone my small, moving target skills again.

[11Bush]

Yeah, it’s hard enough already to get those 2” artillery shells.

[SandRat]

Latest version of Red-Neck Dove season???

[dfwgator]

“If I had a rocket launcher...”

[varon]

i’ll bring it to the taxidermist.

Thank's for the laugh in an otherwise boring day ...............

[Political Junkie Too]

Drones are military equipment. Isn't it a violation of Posse Comitatus to use drones over the United States against its citizens?

-PJ

[elcid1970]

Seems like all you really need is an R/C airplane with a nose camera to midair the govdrone, no weapons necessary.

Harder to catch the citizen that way, compared to John Doe & his shotgun.

Kamikaze counterdrones. Would it work?

[RandallFlagg]

i’ll bring it to the taxidermist.


"Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung 'im!!"

[doorgunner69]

Recall those tanks at Waco?

[Steely Tom]

Would it work?

Not gonna comment on that. Wouldn't be prudent.