Congress has recently approved legislation authorizing the domestic use of drones, and the FAA predicts that 30,000 will be in operation by the year 2020. My guess is that it will happen much sooner.
After some criticism lately, the president of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (ASUVI), Michel Toscano, is planning on a national propaganda blitz in an attempt to “educate” the people about the need for drones in our skies. Hopefully, that will be a massive failure.
The strategy will be to saturate the market with positive images about drones, and to present them as useful and harmless tools for the authorities. According to Toscano:
“You have to keep repeating the good words. “People who don’t know what they’re talking about say these are spy planes or killer drones. They’re not.”
Toscano in this statement just swerved directly into the truth, but he will never admit to that. He will never tell the truth, and the fact that he formerly worked for the Pentagon is reason enough to discount anything he says.
Be prepared for radio, TV, and print media ads to tout the wonders of killer drones as vehicles that are safe, and that have many “public” benefits for all of us here in the good ole USA. While Toscano claims that domestic safety and grand benefits will be prevalent, he at the same time advocates drone use in America’s wars of aggression to spy on and kill innocent people. Does he imagine a good and beneficent government will protect all us citizens at home, but should continue to slaughter innocents abroad? That is quite a contradiction.
Toscano has attributed criticism of drones to fear. Well, he got it right again. Anyone not fearful of massive drone use by this government and its agents of death is a fool. Toscano also believes that these 30,000 drones pose no threat to privacy, because existing laws will protect us. That is a bald faced lie! How could anyone say such a thing with a straight face?
The militarization of our police forces is rampant, and adding the capability to use drones for spying and killing is simply not an option. There have already been abuses of drones in police matters, and adding tens of thousands more drones to this arena will do nothing but harm all that any free minded person holds dear.
Consider all the hype and propaganda coming from government and the ASUVI that will be plastered in the media, as harmful and deadly lies. Given any civil unrest, protest, or Martial Law situation, you can bet that these drones will go immediately into action. All in this country will be subject to being spied upon, and without cause, every single day.
This is nothing but an assault on freedom and liberty. It is nothing other than tyranny. This is not different than past times in communist Russia or Nazi Germany. It is a travesty, and domestic drone use for any purpose that threatens the sovereignty of just one individual should not be allowed to take place. Any and all options should be used to stop this abomination!