Lawmakers are late to the party, but they need to step up and limit drone usage now!
There’s been much in the news lately about domestic drones. As more and more of them start to fill the skies, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are trying to put safeguards in place to protect Americans’ privacy. While I’m glad to see these efforts, I’m sickened to see how late they are.
Once again, the current administration has gone ahead and stripped Americans of their privacy rights before any legal restraints can be put into place. Drones are the Wild West of surveillance, which is just the way the administration wants it. Getting drones up and running before any laws can be passed regarding their usage and limits is a dream come true for them.
One of the biggest frustrations that American citizens have regarding drones is that we don’t know a whole lot about them, including how many there are, how capable they are of identifying individual people and whether or not they can record conversations. We do know that some of them are capable of killing people, and that’s not exactly filling us with warm and fuzzy feelings.
How many drones will be allowed to patrol U.S. skies? Who is authorized to operate them? What are drones capable of? Why haven’t privacy safeguards been put into place regarding drones? Does the government need a warrant to use a drone to record someone’s conversation? What about a deadly drone strike…what kind of authorization is needed to do something like that? What is the ultimate goal for the use of drones?
All of these questions and many more should have been answered and fully explained to the public BEFORE even a single drone was launched. But the fact is, most of us are very much in the dark about them. How can the government justify this obvious abuse of power? I’m not surprised that this is happening, but I am appalled at how our privacy rights are once again being totally disregarded. Read more about it here.
How about you? Do you have a problem with drones filling the skies, identifying people and recording conversations? Do you believe that legal safeguards should be put into place regarding drones to protect Americans’ privacy? Is there anything we can do to keep something like this from happening again the next time a new surveillance device is created? Your opinions are very important to me, so please chime in with your thoughts.
This is just the beginning as you said, my biggest regret is that my government in Canada, is in bed with Uncle Sam in the first place. Another government running this great country of mine is something, I do not support but am powerless to change. How would you like to have another country spying on you with no way of stopping this from happening, just short of shooting them out of the sky yourself. What would that make me, a patriot or a terrorist, to early too tell, guess I will have to find out someday?
I don’t do any thing wrong and wouldn’t mind being watched if I Knew I could trust the people watching, but these people are the government and we all know you can’t trust THEM. But whats the difference between drones and manned aircraft? They have had surveillance air craft for years and probably on U.S. soil but no one has complained about that. If I trusted them I wouldn’t mind!!
in the early 60s when OSHA was being put forth ,there was a poster depicting what an american cowboy would look like under osha’s rules .this is what america has become under a socialist agenda.
I don’t know alot about the gov’t buisness getting into our buisness but recently in our area a commercial roofer was going from house to house.with a drone and taking pics of their roofs I would believe to drum up buisness. Not really the right way to conduct any buisness. I do read alot of what Frank has to say and am getting quite nervous about what our gov’t intends to do to our personnal rights. No drones allowed except for ones own pleasure. Gerald, above, has the right idea. Get old betsy out with some turkey shot. Over & out.
if they fly low enough some good double ought buckshot would mst likely bring them down
As interesting as all of these comments are, I have a different fear, I build and fly RC aircraft. Some of my models are only inches in wing area, I have others with up to 8 foot long wing spans. These aircraft are not toys, make no mistake about that. The radial enging in just one of my planes cost over $5,000.00. That’s right, that’s a lot of money, but it’s my hobby.
Now lets get back to RAVS (radio controled aerial vehicles) as the government would call them. Drones as they are called in other circles. We hobbiests have been flying them for years, no, decades. With and with out cameras mounted on them. Still pictures, motion pictures, GPS monotoring their is nothing new in any of this. As a matter of fact, I track all of my expensive models a with gps. monotering device. So what is the problem? Survalince? Don’t you like the thought of an eye in the sky watching your back? if you’re staying out of trouble, what do you care? Be thankful someone has your back, and don’t screw up my hobby for me with a bunch of unnecessary laws and/or litagation. The FAA makes it tough enough with their regulations. The next time you have a free weekend, go out to your local modelers flying field and watch, enjoy, and come away inspired by what you have seen. Some of the models and the modelers will completly astound you. Enough said…
Earl are you an Idiot, Why should we care about your toy planes when the rest of us are having our rights and privacy trampled on daily. I HOPE YOUR PLANE CRASHES IN MY BACKYARD… SO I CAN DESTROY IT…….. Bear
Say Earl I have been an RC flier for ovrt 50 years (1960). Drones are not RC planes in the same way as our RC models. Some new Drones are the same size as real fighter aircraft as being used by the US Navy. Hobby RC Photo aircraft are different in that they don’t carry munitions or penetrating Radar and they are only flyable in the line of sight, stop trying to mix Oranges with Apples.
WRONG EARL! U HAVEN’T SAID ENOUGH. WAKE-UP U DAMN IDIOT! GOV. DRONES ARE NOT YOUR MODEL AIRPLANES. THEY HAVE 1 MISSION: TO INVADE YOUR PRIVACY & THAT’S ILLEGAL! IF 1 EVER SHOWS UP AT MY HOUSE IT’S COMING DOWN!
no i do not want gov looking into our lives with drones
seems to me if you don’t do anything wrong you won’t care if you are being monitored.
why should any person who isn’t doing anything wrong care if they are being monitored? whats the point of that? we aren’t children who need supervision and looked after. the politicians need monitored. what reasoning. have you researched hitler’s holocaust?
THEY will decide what’s right and what’s wrong. Anyone who disagrees with their fleecing of this country’s wealth or any of their other policies will be targeted. The same reason they are buying up all our ammunition. Make no mistake, it’s not to protect us, it’s to control us.
If you feel this way ..I guess its ok if they look and hear when you and your husband or friend are in your bed room making love..hearing what you all say …I don’t think so !!!!!
penetrating Radar can see you !!!..in your house
They can hear what you say ..Peeping tom…
I think they have a LAW stopping that …
Metal roofs are good as a shield to a point
next step…shoot them down !!!!!!!!!!!
it is an astonishing display off government infringement on our individual rights. where does it all stop? it is appalling to think the average john-doe has no thought about how government has such a control of our everyday movements.Try travelong across the us or even to another state and see how quickly you are stopped by law enforcement simply because you are out of state.The list goes on and on. These drone technology and what the government is able to do with them is really unnerving. i’m not a anti-government individual by any means, I proudly served my country for more than four years in the u.s. Navy.I am just a very concerned grandfather and to be honest truly pissed-off at where our country has gotten to.Is it really necessary to police our own people?
Our complaints seem to fall on deaf ears these days.However,it will ultimately be up to us,our former military that risked their lives and for what?A government that could care less about anyone but themselves.Our current military is who we need to work on as they will be our first line of defense against this evil Obama regime.The military will realize that one day they will be regular citizens and under this evil clan.The powers that be have been working their plan long before Obama came along .Who had ever heard of this enept fool before he started running for the presidency?Heck,his wife does not even like him.Load up on food and ammo because the day of our reckoning is just around the corner.That is why those drones are in the air .Do you think the FAA is going to stop them from arming those things over U.S. skies?Guess again.I am sure they are reading this now but I could care less.I would rather be dead than to live like they will be forcing us to do! so.if you see a soldier.let him know we thank him for his service and remind him that his job is to protect us from foreign and domestic and emphasize domestic terrorists Like Obama and his regime.
Yes they violate our rights to privacy. They can probably here the noise you make on the toilet. Damnd if they don’t make great target practice right before dove season in Texas. Haven’t hit one yet, but come a closer lttle drone and see what surprise I got for ya! Beats clay! :-)
Unknown drone usage over our states; Run-a-muck presidential edicts with no Congressional resistance; a domestic military financed within obamacare; hoarding of survival food by FEMA; hoarding of ammo by obama’s government; the removal of individual gun owner’s rights; all these point to obama making ready for a take-over of our country before his term is up. Make him a lame duck president NOW. Impeach the liar-in-chief and get his ass out of our oval office!!! When will OUR Congress get the balls to do their jobs?
Frank are you acquainted with the Rocket Mass Heater ? If not goole it please .
Dear Frank,
The glories of high-tech surveillance is a blessing and a curse, but like you I feel it is getting NUTS! As an LEO and investigator for decades I had to write detailed, complex “probable cause” reports that had to meet a Constitutional legal standard just to apply for a search, phone or other communications wire tape.
As I write I am watching Fox News and they are commenting on new “heat seeking” and “AP tapping” search technology probes being installed and used by major retailers.
These little “Eye Spy” devises use simple infrared alarm technology to determine where most “warm bodies” are hanging out in their stores. Plus, they have the ability to read and are tapping into what AP’s are on our phones … then they transmit messages to our cell phones about “stuff” we are likely to interested in buying.
As for domestic law enforcement, I believe “over view” of publicly performed criminal events are a good thing, much like a helicopter. HOWEVER, when they start using drones to listen to person to person conversations, individual tracking, ticket writing, etc., that is a clear violation of our Constitutional protections from government! abuses!!
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NOTE: democrat administration is doing this.
That Democrat Administration will spin its way out of the obvious illegality of what they’re doing, by blaming the Tea Party Congress (led by a rotating list of names labeled right-wing conservatives, even though most are RINOs) . The people who help finance it are mostly middle and lower income people whose lives are hurt the most by Obama, but his glib tongue makes them think they are helping a great cause. But they won’t find the truth in the liberal media, which is determined to deceive them.
The use of surveillance Drones is unconstitutional and an insult to the Nation and every American Citizen. If any law enforcement agency has probable cause for their use then let them obtain a LEGAL SWORN WARRANT.