Terminator 3 – from 2003
“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security, deserve neither and will lose both”
– Ben Franklin
Our world – in 2011
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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In this hotair post, get a sense of the overwhelming tide of conservative opinion in favor of -outlawing- these drones altogether: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/15/krauthammer-just-say-no-to-letting-the-police-use-drones/
No pussyfooting around, otherwise the drones will just sneak through the cracks, en masse, and start buzzing around everywhere. My comment at hotair:
In some ways I supported Paul’s call to reduce “the police state” or whatever. We probably need the Patriot Act, though, but DRONES everywhere above us is a step too far. Forget the justification, even if drones save lives and money, and all that. Problem, the cost of privacy is greater than even the “saves a few lives” benefit. I don’t think the people will stand for it.
Now, I’ve heard about 72 virgins, but who is kidding who.
http://www.findmall.com/file.php?52,file=66928
While I am a Ben Franklin fan, that quote is specious. We trade freedoms for security every minute of every day. When you lock your doors, wear a seat belt, pay insurance, etc…
What is important is deciding just how much freedom one is willing to give up, and for what level of security. We must be mindful of who is causing the need for increased security, and why.
The new security does not need to work well nor pay its way. It’s simply a means to extract more money from you for their profit. The Chertoff irradiation scanners at airports are a fine example of pathetic performed on the apathetic.
Playing with a drone in S. Korea has already resulted in a death and two severe injuries when N. Korea jammed the GPS/radio and the unskilled pilots landed the helicopter drone badly… Into themselves.
These drones will need a squawk box to let other flying traffic know its there. Great schoolboy projects for hacking, directed microwave jamming using old microwave ovens and satellite dishes, homing missiles and directed lasers! Imagine those people who would normally go out to “I’m gonna bag me a hog” have a duck shoot with these instead.
Be verbal for voting Ron Paul. He is the only one who will end the drone wars.
Looks like drones “carrying lethal force” is more than a potential. The crazy, scary Russian, AKA FPS Russian, somehow got his hands on a prototype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
(Sorry, I’m not sophisticated enough to embed the vid)
Heh – I must be more sophisticated than I thought!