The U.S. openly brags about boom times for its drone wars, while casually abandoning our 800 year-old system of due process.
Just driving in this morning I was listening to NPR news. The program
opened by announcing, very excitedly, that the drone industry is
exploding so fast that colleges are trying to catch up and opening new
programs in the engineering schools and so on, and teaching drone
technology because that’s what students are dying to study because of
the fantastic number of jobs going on.
And it’s true. If you look at the public reports, you can imagine
what the secret reports are. It’s been known for a couple of years, but
we learn more and more that drones, for one thing, are already being
given to police departments for surveillance. And they are being
designed for every possible purpose. I mean, theoretically, maybe
practically, you could have a drone the size of a fly which could be
buzzing around over there [points to window] listening to what we’re
talking about. And I’d suspect that it won’t be too long before that
becomes realistic.
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