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:14421 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!
Note I said well marked poles. When they were testing that particular mofdel of helicopter, the UH-60 Blackhawk, they went up and down all four rotorblades and fired 20 MM rounds into them and took off and flew with the damage.
The Blackhawk is actually stronger, more powerful and has twice the rotor blades of the UH-1H Huey like the one I crewed in the military. Even if the poles had been steel (they weren't) or the rotors hit small fir branches growing from the 500-600 year old trees we were in, the craft would not be damaged.
As for spiking, setting fires or any other Earth Liberation Front stuff goes, I am way against it.
I actually worked in the woods many years planting trees, spraying big game repelant, fire fighting, doing pre-commercial thinning, and many other things. I would never put people who wood blue collar jobs in the woods at risk of injury.
The pilots would of seen the red and orange poles with the flags on the ends, and if they hit them, the poles just would of broke.
We trusted the fact that they did not know the composition of the poles as being enough of a deterrent to keep an extraction team away from us.
