Police helicopters have been around for years and used to target suspects until ground based vehicles can apprehend them. Are helicopters to be replaced with drones? And when used by the police will the drones be capable of using deadly force? How would drones equipped to use deadly force be legal in a system that says one is innocent until proven guilty?
And what are universities, businesses and hobbyists doing in the mix of this new drone extravaganza?
Are universities going to target students to curb teenage drinking, see who is attending class or who might be lurking in the woods nearby?
What sort of businesses will be approved; the Wal-Marts, Home Depot's and the people in their parking lots suspected of being shoplifters?
And with the hobbyists; are drones going to replace model airplanes? Will these "hobbyists" flying their drones be allowed to act as neighborhood watch volunteers and act as "good citizen" vigilantes particularly in "stand your ground" states and if someone looks suspicious and dangerous to the "hobbyist" drone operator as being dangerous, will he be able to justify using deadly force in self defense. Is that too over the top?
From here it's all madness but maybe the majority of people will approve the FAA's plan on drone use. In polls a majority of Americans support the use of drones in our overseas military type operations saying it doesn't put our soldiers in harms way.
Isn't such thinking an indicator the majority have become accustomed to the use of drones in our foreign encounters and their domestic use is just a foregone conclusion and so be it.
But as Paul Craig Roberts so astutely surmises in his writings, the "insouciance" of the American people is profoundly disturbing.
Of course Dr. Roberts is on the mark and if domestic drone operations become common-place without the people being in resistance to their use, it will further reconfirm his keen, though grave observations.
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