Monday, June 14, 2010

Obama's newest "subtlety " - Civilian Drones

An idea so bad it must be
destroyed in the hanger

WASHINGTON (AP) - Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure's on to allow them in the skies over the United States.

Boned Jello

I began marking-up this post after reading just the first ¶ of FAA under pressure to open US skies to drones.  "Now the pressure's on ..." is code for "this is a trial balloon from Obamunist central ."  Paragraph #6 contains the the next slice of meat.

There is a tremendous pressure and need to fly unmanned aircraft in (civilian) airspace," Hank Krakowski, FAA's head of air traffic operations, told European aviation officials recently. "We are having constant conversations and discussions, particularly with the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, to figure out how we can do this safely with all these different sizes of vehicles.

I don't have to spell out the implications for y'all; but there are plenty of un-thinkers out there who will scratch their collective asses and say, "sounds good to me." 

Obamunists are shrewdly packaging this to appeal to cash strapped state governments; i.e., a new revenue [tax] source.  However, what's the different here from using the United States military as a domestic law enforcer?   It fits neatly into Obama's "civilian national security force" gambit.  "Piloting"  the drones will give the Obama Youth something constructive to do, too.   I hope there's a huge stink over this, beginning now.


A good spot here to reintroduce this thought.  If the Second Amendment was formulated  to give us citizenry the means to defend against excesses by our own government, as it certainly was, this question needs answering.  Oughtn't we have access to the same weapons a rogue government can use to repel us?  I'm just saying.  

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Land mines & A-bombs have proved their usefulness in war too. We ain't about to go planting them willy nilly about the country are we...

Anonymous said...

I can see using these drones along our borders, but if it comes down to these things being used to spy on US citizens, we should be able to take em out...

BlogDog said...

I may have to get back into "model" rocketry that was so much back in my yoot. Maybe scaled up and integrated with my electronics hobby for such experiments as proximity fuzes.

Juice said...

...or hang the Destroyer.

Anonymous said...

WTF I mean we already allow them to use red light cameras, speed trap cameras...I can't see why they need "permission" to set up cameras on every tree or light pole in the US.

WV: sperscu (mexican for ese per see you)or it's to see you

cmblake6 said...

Last paragraph. Answer: yes.

Anonymous said...

to be called I. C. U.

e~C

[no one will evar be alone again...]

drew458 said...

There's a watchbird watching you.

JMcD said...

Maybe those could be used in conjunction with this fine product

Mike(AZ) said...

Well, I'm not too worried that there might be un-manned drones flying around my head (might sound paranoid, but who's to say there aren't already?)

What worries me more is the pimply-faced gamer-geek, not yet old enough to vote, sitting in a Gummint warehouse somewhere, paid off by Obamarama-minions to just get it in the air and track a target till some sorry-assed leftist decides to punch the Red Button and send some Tea Partier off to join the Founding Fathers!

Here in Arid-zona, we're PLEADING with the gummint to put the Drones on the border... track the "bad guys"..., er, sorry... uninvited GUESTS and off them before they get more than a mile or two into our Fair Land. More than two or three miles north of the usta-b-border and we're gonna need some way of blowing them out of the hot, blue, summer sky!

My name is NOT John McCain, and I didn't pay a penny for this Ad!

PUT THE D*MN GUARD ON THE BORDER AND *KILL* EVERYTHING COMING OVER THE BORDER THAT DOESN'T HAVE PAPERS!

My Name is Mike(AZ) and I didn't pay a penny for this message, either!

TimO said...

We R/C plane guys are way ahead of the curve on this one....
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2c8_1260427787

Anonymous said...

FAA rules call for a pilot aboard any aircraft flying in commercial airspace. The problem is that drones don't have an on-board set of Mark One eyeballs to perform that last-minute "see and avoid" stuff that backs up the fancy electronics. Visual Flight Rules (VFR) thus are a problem for unmanned drones. And it doesn't matter that you can put a mini-camera in the nose. That cam needs to swivel 360 degrees, and up and down, in an instant.

root@localhost.localdomain said...

Me thinks the State and local Gummint has been doing this for a while. They just haven't told you about it. When they've been asked, they simply lied about it or ignored the RFI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2qvO7byBI

I read about this in January here:

http://www.itstactical.com/2010/01/13/uavs-destined-for-local-law-enforcement/

Kristophr said...

Anon: A UAV can simply be called a big R/C toy.

If it doesn't carry a pilot or Pax, it ain't an airplane.

You can't fly an R/C toy in classified airspace without permission from the FAA for an exemption for a navagation obstruction, but I think they would give any .gov org permission.

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