It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on April 20, 2011, 11:29:12 PM
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http://www.truthout.org/lobbying-report-drones-fly-through-congress-enter-us-skies/1302937200 (http://www.truthout.org/lobbying-report-drones-fly-through-congress-enter-us-skies/1302937200)
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You think you're in tinfoil hat/black helicopter territory?
Senator Hoeven said on the Senate floor, in support of the amendment:
"We're already flying UAVs in airspace all over the world. Now we need to open the skies for them at home to make our nation more secure, our communities safer and our economy more dynamic, creating jobs and opportunities in our country. If we don't you can be sure other nations will."
I don't believe you are. I say they're already using them and are now seeking to make 'em legal.
Where's my hat?
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We're going to "safety" and "security" ourselves right into slavery. Between stuff like this, and the recent revelation that Apple's iPhones have been surreptitiously logging their owners' physical location, the police in Michigan doing rapid data dumps of drivers' cell phones during routine traffic stops (without warrants), I think it's reasonable to say we're not becoming a police state, we are a police state.
The Progressive echo chamber includes Google, whose executives are fond of stating that privacy is obsolete. The demand for performance and convenience that drives the development of electronic gadgetry has been fully realized as the perfect vehicle for 24/7 monitoring that it is. The ubiquitous interactive screens described by Orwell in 1984 weren't even as thorough as what we have in our reality.
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iPhones from Apple, a progressive company...coincidence?
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