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Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American Citizen
US News ^ | August 2, 2012 | Jason Koebler

Posted on 08/02/2012 2:05:24 PM PDT by Myrddin

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To: Myrddin
In California, they have for many years had helicopters flying overhead looking for marijuana farms in backyards, or homes with excessive heat output. Highway patrols frequently fly planes overhead monitoring the speed of vehicles on the roads.

What makes this different is "military-like surveillance aircraft." Are these domestic drones used by state or local law enforcement, or are they military equipment used against the civilian population. If it is the latter, it is a violation of Posse Comitatus.

-PJ

21 posted on 08/02/2012 2:41:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( It doesn't come naturally when you're not natural born.)
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To: UCANSEE2

the cameras on these things are satillite quality and they dont have to be very close to see everything. Cameras that can read text messages from across a 50K person stadium. Dont think that you can protect yourself.


22 posted on 08/02/2012 2:42:13 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Are these domestic drones used by state or local law enforcement, or are they military equipment used against the civilian population.

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that distinction is blurring


23 posted on 08/02/2012 2:46:03 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: crz
Must have been a local pissing match...........

And the guy dug his heels in.

24 posted on 08/02/2012 2:48:42 PM PDT by Osage Orange (8675309)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.”

Not wanting to spend years in a forced labor camp, Winston had decided to not think about a tasty Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich, particularly since learning that comrades had been turned over to the Illinois Civil Rights commission, charged with thoughtcrime.

“Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.”
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“Winston turned round abruptly. He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen.”

Should we begin practicing setting our features into expressions of quiet optimism?


25 posted on 08/02/2012 2:57:32 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Osage Orange

I guess the guy was claiming open range laws in regs to the cattle on his property and would not give the cattle back.

The dumb asshole could have claimed damages if the cattle had done some.

Free Range laws are different in each state. And they cause a lot of problems when city folks move into the country. Being from the country, I dont have any problem with cattle on my property as long as they are watched. I generally get them out away from my buildings if they come in.


26 posted on 08/02/2012 2:59:05 PM PDT by crz
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To: Myrddin

One tends to think of the big drones used on the Middle East. But I can tell you that development is already well under way on drones the size of birds and insects. Don’t think they will be flying overhead. They might be perched in a tree or on a wall.


27 posted on 08/02/2012 3:02:34 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: crz
Around here...we know who's cattle is who's.

And when they stray..we let our neighbors know.

28 posted on 08/02/2012 3:04:39 PM PDT by Osage Orange (8675309)
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To: Myrddin

How would having a drone fly over be any different than a private citizen fly his light plane over and take pictures or report live what he was seeing?


29 posted on 08/02/2012 3:31:23 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
Though I'm still a bit uneasy with the idea since...well, since I never supported the creation of DHS to begin with, but having been done I should think, perhaps naively, that their mission involves interdiction and interception of foreign terror plots. Rather I think I'd feel more at ease with FBI provision of technologies for domestic police agencies. It's this layering of responsibilities that bugs me, I guess. Too complex. I can't help but think that the efficiency of the thing would be enhanced by making it simpler. It's the dreamer in me.
30 posted on 08/02/2012 4:05:59 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: SandyInSeattle

Yes i will when i shoot it down and ill own a drone too !


31 posted on 08/02/2012 4:06:08 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: Myrddin

Just drape your whole property in camo netting and then maybe you’ll be ok. Until they install the FLIR on the drones so they can have night vision and see through walls.


32 posted on 08/02/2012 4:57:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: count-your-change

Consider this device sitting on your bedroom window sill. Consider if that bedroom window is on a second story window facing the back yard. No way to peer inside short of being right on the window sill. Is that an unreasonable violation of your 4th Amendment rights?

33 posted on 08/02/2012 5:02:57 PM PDT by Myrddin
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“Consider if that bedroom window is on a second story window facing the back yard”

In my neighborhood two story houses are built back to back so the one could see into a second story window of another across the yards.
Shall I not look out my windows on the upper floor for fear of gazing into my neighbor's room? Or do I have the right to look at anything that is outside my window?

“No way to peer inside short of being right on the window sill.”

That's what blinds and curtains are for.

For a actual example: A painting crew is painting the outside of a three story condo while a woman is nude sunbathing on her nearby two story balcony.
Are her rights being violated if one side of that building has lots of extra paint on it?

So really there's no difference between a drone or a plane or a satellite flying over and taking pictures of whatever is visible to whatever instruments they carry.

“Is that an unreasonable violation of your 4th Amendment rights?”

Someone leans a ladder against my house to see in the second story window? Yes.
Someone sits in their second story room and looks my direction, No.

34 posted on 08/02/2012 6:20:54 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Yes i will when i shoot it down and ill own a drone too !

You do that. Let me know how it works out for you.

35 posted on 08/02/2012 6:30:56 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Eat Mor Chikin!)
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To: count-your-change
The insect drone lands on your 2nd story bedroom window sill. It turns the camera inside. Is the drone trespassing on your property? Is the trespasser violating your privacy?
36 posted on 08/02/2012 8:06:14 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Sure it would be but where is this happening? The technology already exists to accomplish what such a drone might.

Simple fact is if someone wants to know badly enough what you say and do in your house or apartment they can find out and there’s little you can do about it.
And they don’t need a drone.


37 posted on 08/02/2012 9:56:18 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

I know. I’m just staying on topic to explore the consequences of the court ruling with respect to drones.


38 posted on 08/02/2012 10:36:46 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: DannyTN

“Best to simply restrict the warrant-less use of drones for surveillance on homes as unreasonable search and seizure, than to rely on airspace rights.”

Agreed.


39 posted on 08/03/2012 6:41:08 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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