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| DJI S900 with a Panasonic GH4 video camera |
They know that ground
observers and modern radar can’t see these things. They also know that almost anyone can nearly
invisibly, deploy a mini-drone to monitor the movement, armament and size of
police and military assets on our streets.
That’s raw power that would
allow ordinary citizens with conventional firearms to succeed in a rebellion
against government tyranny.
Today we know that African-American thugs
have effectively used cell-phones and texting to organize takeover mobs to rob
retail establishments. Until cell phones
existed the police were the only ones to have superior instant communication
with their walkie-talkies.
Cell phone technology has
given mobs advantages in recent instances of civil unrest. Past civil insurrections such as the Rodney
King of the 1980s or the Martin Luther King riots of the 1960s were put down
because of superior police communications.
Those days may be over.
Government has quietly taken
control of the cell phone and Internet on and off switches. We will see that used when civil unrest
become widespread. Still there is no
shortage of advanced and cheap wireless walkie-talkies that cannot be
controlled so easily by the government.
The very first aircraft
brought into military application was for simple and absolutely needed
reconnaissance. Unarmed airplanes
facilitated tacktical battle management like never before.
Airplanes and wireless radio
were and are considered dangerous military assets. Now it’s little inexpensive drones that show
significant promise to keep government tyranny in check.
The power of intelligence
gathering capabilities of the mini-drones is immense. Imagine if one side of our Civil War had
them? Imagine how Custer’s troops could
have used a mini-drone to see the Indians at the Little Big Horn.
I can’t help but imagine what
a great tool the mini drone would have been for European Nazi resistance
fighters of World War Two!
Politicians will always fear civilian technological and firepower parity with the government
and can be expected to stop that from happening.
They have waged a propaganda war
against the civilian mini drones citing bogus public safety concerns. The media has fallen on their sword here even though they need drones to survive their serious and ongoing financial crises.
Laughably the FAA has
suddenly changed their airspace regulation from reactive measures to proactive
and preventative efforts. They are
suddenly giving the toy like mini drones with more attention than our 747 jumbo
jets.
The FAA manned aircraft
regulations were never a form of prior restraint policy. Instead they quite literally are written in
blood. Every FAA regulation has a documented
deadly mishap behind it. That is except
for the mini-drones. Suddenly the FAA
has sought Ill-informed prior restraint based rules based on Chicken Little style
dire predictions to establish multi-rotor drone policy.
Despite numerous near miss
claims there has never been a notable accident involving a multi-rotor camera
drone inside the USA. No lives lost, significant injury
or even measureable property losses have been reported. No photos, video or recovered drones have
ever been displayed as evidence to back up the near miss assertions.
The FAA has actually restrained
basic commerce and First Amendment protected use of the mini drones for creative
art and newsgathering. They’ve done that
without a single documented death or even minimal property damage report.
Suddenly privacy issues from the
little camera drones is a “serious” concern at a time when surveillance
cameras, satellite imagery and helicopter photography is commonplace and
accepted by the courts.
This is all a government sham. The real issue is about despotic politicians
keeping government might superior to civilians for absolute control. As such it becomes obvious that the Second
Amendment as well as the First Amendment now protects drones.
Ignorant Americans still
somehow seem to think the Second Amendment was about hunting. It was put in place to prevent government
from exercising total control of Americans or seizing their hard won
liberty.
As for the drones, the Genie
is out of the bottle. The technology
can’t be stopped. They are easily made
and programmed by hobbyists. There are upwards of a million of them already in
civilian hands.
Thankfully regulating
mini-drones beyond making hollow threats to do so is an impossible task. Soon indoor pilots that can’t be readily seen
will be able to operate the mini-drone.
The drones will be deployed from all manner of locations far away from the
pilots.
There is simply not enough
tax funds or humans to exercise effective regulation of the mini drones on this
earth.
There are some 7000
helicopters to regulate and well over a million multi-rotor drones. We know what’s safer to use for purposes like
newsgathering. The FAA will still play
games and pretend the are concerned about real safety.
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