DRONES OVER AMERICA
To Spy, To Protect, To To Control, or To Kill???

Constitutionalist John Whitehead – who is also a careful master researcher – points out ("Drones Over America: Tyranny at Home," Rutherford.org, June 28), that "unbeknownst to most Americans, remote-controlled pilotless aircraft have been employed domestically for years now. They were first used as a national security tool for patrolling America's borders, and then as a means of monitoring citizens."

One of my favorite authors over a period of more than forty decades is a rabble rouser named Nat Hentoff. One of my least favorite online publications is a rag called WORLD NET DAILY. We have here an article by Hentoff in WND.

But it is well worth reading. Citing several sources and using some simple logic, Mr. Hentoff details the current and potential use of drone airplanes (and other, smaller robotic devices) to keep an eye on the American People, ferreting out evil and punishing anybody who might commit crimes against the state, or, I suppose, offend their fellows by bathing but infrequently.

The idea is not new, of course, our government (and every other government) has always spied on its citizens. The difference betwixt then and now is the little matter of 9/11 and the enormous growth of surveillance activity as the feds become ever more paranoid about those who would kill us from without, or vote us out from within.

Liberties we thought guaranteed us in the Bill of Rights are ebbing away, their passing barely noticed.

It is not far into the realm of imagination that the very devices found so useful in killing our turbaned enemies abroad could be used against enemies, real or imagined, here at home.

A simple camera designed to catch drivers who don’t come to a full stop at an intersection morphs into an instrument of intelligence on national proportions. Fail to stop and end up on some secret government list.

The same predator drone which so innocently keeps a benign eye on a hundred thousand football fans in a stadium, becomes an instrument of guided missile destruction when those same fans become a mob demanding, perhaps, more jobs or a bigger say in the imperial government.

You can read the piece here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=181749 It’s called “DRONES IN THE U.S. SKY---TO KEEP AN EYE ON US”.

It might get you thinking here barely a day following the Georgia primary elections.