Thursday, May 3, 2018

GOVERNMENT DRONES OVER AMERICA: COVERT SURVEILLANCE OF SOCIETY

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-rapid-rise-of-federal-surveillance-drones-over-america/473136/Here we see the overreach of the government and law enforcement rear its ugly head again. Why do they fear us? What are they looking for? Unbridled surveillance of society can only result in a totalitarian regime. Why would you need to know everything about everyone? So you can crunch the numbers and determine who the enemy is. You mean we have enemies among us? We do now. When did the enemy arrive? When the government labelled them as POTENTIAL domestic terrorists and dissidents. They've always been here, we just didn't notice.

The featured article highlights the need for accountability and oversight to the people regarding drone surveillance. The article shows that local police have been using drones for the past 5 years (at the least). Here are a few excerpts.
"The belief that the federal government was using drones to conduct domestic surveillance inside the United States, though, could get a person labeled a paranoid lunatic as recently as 2012."

"What did Feinstein know that the FBI wasn’t telling us? Perhaps that the federal government gave local police departments $1.2 million to spend on drones that year."

"There are too many federal, state, and local agencies with too many surveillance aircraft to pretend any longer that aerial spying is rare. There is too little oversight to presume all these government entities are acting legally."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-rapid-rise-of-federal-surveillance-drones-over-america/473136/
 

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