Title: Judge Napolitano: First Patriot To Shoot Down A Government Spy Drone Will Be A Hero Source:
Infowars.net URL Source:http://www.infowars.com/judge-napol ... ment-spy-drone-will-be-a-hero/ Published:May 16, 2012 Author:Steve Watson Post Date:2012-05-16 19:09:01 by Brian S Keywords:None Views:14691 Comments:43
Judge Andrew Napolitano has warned Congress not to act “like potted plants” regarding the increased use of unmanned surveillance drones without warrants over US skies by military, government, and law enforcement agencies.
Echoing the recent comments of his Fox News colleague Charles Krauthammer, Napolitano also said that “The first American patriot that shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children in his backyard will be an American hero.”
The federal government is rolling out new rules on the use of the unmanned drones this week, with the Federal Aviation Administration announcing procedures will “streamline” the process through which government agencies, including local law enforcement, receive licenses to operate the aircraft.
Privacy advocates have warned that the FAA has not acted to establish any privacy safeguards whatsoever, and that congress is not holding the agency to account.
The Air Force instruction, dated April 23, admits that the Air Force cannot legally conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on Americans, but also states that should the drones”incidentally” capture data while conducting other missions, military intelligence has the right to study it to determine whether the subjects are legitimate targets of domestic surveillance.
“The same Congress that let the president bomb Libya is going to let his Air Force spy in our backyards and like potted plants, they’ll look the other way,” Judge Napolitano urged yesterday.
“The Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment and the Ninth Amendment were written to guarantee us the right to be left alone … Suddenly the government, silently, from 30,000 feet above is violating those amendments,” he added.
As we reported in February, over 30 prominent watchdog groups have banded together to petition the FAA on the proposed increase in the use of drones in US airspace.
The groups, including The American Civil Liberties Union, The Electronic Privacy Information Center, and The Bill of Rights Defense Committee, submitted a petitiondemanding that the FAA hold a rulemaking session to consider the privacy and safety threats.
Congress recently passed legislation paving the way for what the FAA predicts will be somewhere in the region of 30,000 drones in operation in US skies by 2020.
The ACLU noted that the FAA’s legislation “would push the nation willy-nilly toward an era of aerial surveillance without any steps to protect the traditional privacy that Americans have always enjoyed and expected.”
In addition to privacy concerns, the groups warned that the ability to link facial recognition technology to surveillance drones and patch the information through to active government databases would “increase the First Amendment risks for would be political dissidents.”
The ACLU noted that the FAA’s legislation “would push the nation willy-nilly toward an era of aerial surveillance without any steps to protect the traditional privacy that Americans have always enjoyed and expected.”
Not exactly the same scale as the Judge, but I got a kick out of this story some time ago about pigeon hunters swift disposal of a nosey drone...
So, Mike, don't go climbing into the trees anymore. The cutters will put up a little drone and spray you with skunk juice or something. BTW, the tree you guys were trying to save several years ago in a downtown park? How did that end?
We saved the trees in the Owens Rose Garden they were planning to cut dow to pant clones to the iconic 160 year old Tartarian cherry tree there.
The one in front of the Sheldon-McMurphy house we didn't save. You could mean either one of those actions, but most of any sitting I've done in recent years are in forest tree-sits. And I'm 58, I do more training on climbing and affiliated skills involved in inhabiting a tree-sit and staying there safely.
I'm a planner and and instigator, which is actually much more pleasant then the line work of this endeavor. ;-)
During Red Cloud Thunder where we saved old growth and older trees at the Lois and Clark timber sales, we heard they were training at McCord AFB/Ft. Lewis, WA to possibly use utility helicopters to insert military or USFS 'Supper Freddies' into the tree sits we had there.
We put long well marked poles on the trees that were high enough to be in the hover zone of a helicopter doing a high performance hover set up to off load personnel.
We have seen drones out there already this year. They are very high altitude and hard to detect. Fortunately, when one is in a tree with little else to do, the detect5ion task is far easier.
Our response two this new element of surveillance is going to be evolved just as any new adaptation to their operational doctrine and tactics is.
We put long well marked poles on the trees that were high enough to be in the hover zone of a helicopter doing a high performance hover set up to off load personnel.
You vile piece of shit.
You put HUMAN life at risk for a FUCKING tree.
You are the same cunts who used to SPIKE trees.
One of my best friends lost an eye because of you cunts, he was LUCKY that he was not KILLED.
YOU and YOUR ilk have alot to PAY for bitch, and you WILL.
#9. To: Mad Dog, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#8)
You are the same cunts who used to SPIKE trees.
One of my best friends lost an eye because of you cunts, he was LUCKY that he was not KILLED.
They also set up hazards on off road events to cause injury and death, and pass out fake maps hoping that you'll get lost in the desert and die of thirst. The greenies are a death cult anyway, they hate humans because they're "destroying the planet". Psycho's!
They also set up hazards on off road events to cause injury and death, and pass out fake maps hoping that you'll get lost in the desert and die of thirst. The greenies are a death cult anyway, they hate humans because they're "destroying the planet". Psycho's!
You sure got that right Bro.
IMO they a F'ing INSANE.
I met Dave Foreman a co-founder of "Earth FIRST!" who I asked a very simple question, that I already knew how he would answer.
I asked him, if he could save a human baby of any race or sex, OR the last animal of an otherwise extinct animal; which would he save?
Without pause, he answered, "the animal", (just as I knew he would).
Then his handlers ran him off away from me.
These people are animal WORSHIPPERS, they HATE HUMANITY.
Steve, only someone wth a bad case of the dumb-ass factor would post a sneer like that.
We would not want the birds to crash and only encouraged them to stay away with the employment of a well displayed wild card like these obstacles.
If we did anything to cash the utility helicopter, it would put us sitters and ground crews in danger too.
I mean, one does not make a helicopter hovering above you crash if you can possibly help it. In fact, it was safer for everyone if it was encouraged to stay away.
Sometimes when I think I have an idea of the depth of your profound ignorance, you show me it's deeper and broader then I had imagined.
As for spiking, setting fires or any other Earth Liberation Front stuff goes, I am way against it.
I know you've never come close to ELF and I'm sorry to hear about that one tree that went down...for a TIF?
Mad Dog, please take it easy on Mike. He is one of the good guys, like us, just different priorities.
BULLSHIT.
These eco-SCUMBAGS have "the monkey wrench gang" as HEROS and instructors.
I KNOW these arrogant SCUM.
I was there when they began. I KNOW how they operate from experience.
I saw what they DID as opposed to what they said that they did.
I have worked on equipment that they sabotaged.
I have friends who have been physically HURT almost KILLED by their SABOTAGE.
I have friends who lost EVERYTHING because of the eco-SCUM sabotaging their equipment and being unable to operate a small custom mill at ANY margin let alone a PROFIT.
I've seen it over, and over, and over, these eco-SCUM crush the SMALL operators and those who work for them. These eco-SCUM don't hurt the BIG outfits, they KILL the small and medium sized operations.
THEY PUT NORMAL WORKING AMERICAN'S LIVES AT RISK FOR THEIR "god" "gaia".
They TALK shit but that doesn't give my partner back his FUCKING EYE.
cornflake gurl denies ever doing spiking but he supports those who do these acts as a matter of course.
He is the lowest of all life forms in my opinion he is a COWARD, a LIAR and absolute libTURD SCUM who would KILL US ALL IF he felt that it would help his agenda of the moment.
cornflake GURL and I have NOTHING in common. He is OUR, (AMERICA'S), enemy.
"I have friends who lost EVERYTHING because of the eco-SCUM sabotaging their equipment and being unable to operate a small custom mill at ANY margin let alone a PROFIT."
And I have had a friend leave the realm of non-violent civil disobedience and torch a lot because it contained SUVs and got caught.
Jeff Luers went to prison for arson and I spoke out against his property crimes and did not work to help get him released early. He is out and going to college and though as a fellow Occupy Eugene activist we work together cordially, we are no longer friends because I withheld my support as I do in regards to anyone in ELF.
How do you feel about David Chain who had a logger drop a tree on him at a protest on an active logging operation and killed him? The system refused to prosecute the murderer because of the size and political pull of Pacific lumber.
How do you feel about arrows and bullets sent our way in various logging protests, do you support the frustrated and murderous minority that would just lynch people protesting the illegal and amoral gutting of our forests? Do you like lynchings to achieve a political end?
You talk about spiking, that is contrary to the philosophy of non-violent protest and polarizes the issue and shuts down dialog on the issue.
The point we make in doing non-violent protest is to elevate the level of public consciousness on an issue to start a public dialog on it. Spiking maims or kills blue collar workers, alienates the public and shuts dialog down.
My group, the Cascadia Forest Defenders (CFD) has been around for decades and thrives because we do not do property damage or endanger human lives. ELF on the other hand has hurt the issue and they have accomplished nothing.
We have a long standing policy of zero tolerance for ecotage or vandalism of property belonging to anyone.
I own two Husqvarna saws I have used to cut fire line as the sawyer on the line crews I was on. I also used them to do pre-commercial thinning on 'immature' tracts of densely packed very young trees.
I refused to work on logging contracts even though I could of made good money at these jobs. But as a reforestation worker/wildland firefighter, I know my target as a non-violent activist doing civil disobedience is management, not blue collar workers. There is no way at all I would ever do anything that would injure or kill doing sweat work in the woods or anywhere else.
I hope your friend's saboteurs eventually get caught and punished. I do not condone working the issue in a way like that. It endangers human life and hurts the point of the issue which is to increase dialog and communication.
I understand that a F'ing LYING SCUM sucking piece of shit such as you isn't smart enough to understand basic English so let me put it this way cornflake gurl ...
In peacetime, as a civilian, I have NEVER SABOTAGED or DESTROYED ANYBODY'S ANYTHING, FOR ANY REASON; you FOUL PIECE OF SHIT.
I have NEVER HARMED INNOCENT WORKING AMERICANS FOR ANY REASON YOU VILE PIECE OF SHIT.
Those who have done this need to go to PRISON for ALL of the time that they have EARNED.
YOU SUPPORT THESE PEOPLE YOU VILE LYING PIECE OF SHIT.
What I'm saying cornflake gurl is, PISS OFF you foul LYING EVIL SCUM.
