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Predator drone helps convict North Dakota farmer in first case of its kind
FoxNews.com ^ | Jan 28, 2014

Posted on 01/28/2014 7:40:34 AM PST by KeyLargo

Edited on 01/28/2014 9:08:27 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

A North Dakota farmer convicted of terrorizing law officers two years ago is the first American to be sentenced to prison with the help of a Predator drone, Forbes reported.

Rodney Brossart, who was accused at the time of stealing six cows from a neighbor, was arrested after a summer-long standoff in 2011. Authorities say Brossart family members refused to allow deputies on their farmstead and didn't show up for court hearings.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; biggovernment; drones; govtabuse; spying; surveillance
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To: Covenantor
Note the long stretch along the Texas Mexico border with no drone bases.

The CBP UAS bases on the south border are in Sierra Vista AZ, Corpus Christi TX, and Cocoa Beach FL. The TX and AZ stations send their aircraft to tracks that run from Yuma to Brownsville.

41 posted on 01/28/2014 8:14:26 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: yadent

Cattle rustling. Isn’t that a hanging offense?


42 posted on 01/28/2014 8:15:29 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
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To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends



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43 posted on 01/28/2014 8:15:32 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: KeyLargo

My step Brother was the LEO who requested and got the drone in this case.


44 posted on 01/28/2014 8:15:44 AM PST by Manic_Episode (F the Whigs)
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To: KeyLargo

So he didn’t steal the cows! Cows go through fences all the time. You just go get your cows or call your neighbor to get theirs out of your pasture. I am not understanding this problem.


45 posted on 01/28/2014 8:19:14 AM PST by Ditter
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To: KeyLargo

So the sky pirate is the Wind River Indians Great Spirit in the Sky?

They been having problems with that in Wyoming, have they?

;>)


46 posted on 01/28/2014 8:19:42 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: KeyLargo

It is the change they voted for. They also voted for obamacare. And a thousand other things that haven’t manifested themselves yet. All of them bad for freedom and liberty in the U.S.


47 posted on 01/28/2014 8:20:44 AM PST by sport
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48 posted on 01/28/2014 8:21:57 AM PST by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. - Aristotle)
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To: Manic_Episode
"My step Brother was the LEO who requested and got the drone in this case."

So apparently his parentage half was a descendant of a Nazi brown shirt?

49 posted on 01/28/2014 8:26:19 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: EQAndyBuzz

A jury said[by their verdict]that he was not guilty of stealing cows. Rustling was not mentioned.


50 posted on 01/28/2014 8:29:07 AM PST by sport
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To: onyx

I will and do not watch or listen to him. It is bad enough to have to look at him for a second or two. The only ones I despise more than I do him is the bastards that voted for him.


51 posted on 01/28/2014 8:31:50 AM PST by sport
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To: Manic_Episode

“My step Brother was the LEO who requested and got the drone in this case.”

I have no problem with your step Brother. I see no real difference between what he did and using a helicopter. And in my neighborhood, we’ve got helicopters, with their searchlights, overhead every other night.


52 posted on 01/28/2014 8:34:33 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: DariusBane
Brossart was found not guilty of stealing the cows and got six months in prison over the police standoff, Forbes reported.

He was found guilty of protecting his family and property from the government thugs trying to kill them.................you can't do that................

53 posted on 01/28/2014 8:36:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: KeyLargo

Up here in space
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My circuits gleam.
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You can’t feel my stare.
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there.
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.
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Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There’s nothing you can do about it.
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows.
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54 posted on 01/28/2014 8:38:48 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: DJ MacWoW
HEY!!!

STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!


55 posted on 01/28/2014 8:42:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Ditter

“I am not understanding this problem.”

Neither did the judge....

““This case should have never happened,” State District Judge Medd said..... “We should never have been here if the cows would have just been returned.”

“In a short written statement, Brossart said he took responsibility for his actions and wished he had done things differently.

Asked by Medd why he didn’t simply turn over the six head of cattle to his neighbor, Brossart said, “Sometimes things don’t make sense.”

Also, Brossart was, apparently, convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the states “stray cattle law.”

“On two misdemeanor charges of preventing arrest and violating the state’s stray cattle law, Medd sentenced him to serve shorter sentences at the same time.”

http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/21859/publisher_ID/30/


56 posted on 01/28/2014 8:44:09 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

By the book of the same name, “Fat Chance!” :-)


57 posted on 01/28/2014 8:48:56 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: JoeDetweiler

We have cows, they get out occasionally, some one calls us and we go get them. Our neighbors cows get out occasionally, we call the neighbors and they come and get them.

We had a bull named Romeo, he never let a fence get in his way when he knew there was cow across the fence that he was interested in. So... he got the name Romeo.


58 posted on 01/28/2014 8:49:38 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Daffynition

You got a recipe for drone? I wonder if they taste like goose?


59 posted on 01/28/2014 8:50:36 AM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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To: Ditter

Sure....I used to live next door to some folks who kept cows, so I’ve been there.

Unfortunately, people weren’t so reasonable in this case. Or so it would seem.


60 posted on 01/28/2014 8:54:42 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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