Homeland Security drone patrolling NNY – Newswatch50.com… We’re Always On! — Deadly Predator drones now being used against the public-at-large. Will the canadians shoot them down or not when they veer over the border? And why are we patrolling Canada?
A Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has been temporarily based at Fort Drum since early June in an experiment by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office. The Department of Homeland Security is using the extensive restricted air space over Fort Drum to test whether the drone could be a good fit along this stretch of the northern border. The Predator will operate out of Fort Drum for about three weeks for testing and training, and to evaluate its use to law enforcement.
John Stanton, director of CPB’s Office of Air and Marine, said state, provincial and local law enforcement agencies were quick to take up the offer of added surveillance of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
Found by Scott Diaz.
Oh, come on! You are WAY behind the power curve here. Didn’t ya’ know that “the border” now extends 100 miles inland? Seriously.
http://blog.aclu.org/2008/10/22/homeland-security-assuming-broad-powers-turning-vast-swaths-of-us-into-constitution-free-zone/
You even had a video on this site of a guy challenging being stopped by _border guards_ many miles inland. Get with the program. We gotta stop them thar “turrists” as Dubya’ the Idiot called them. However, the dragnet on the southern border must be highly selective because the business interests that effectively own the government continue to need a supply of cheap labor. Gonna’ need some really good tech for that.
First, the FAA has put the brakes on the use of UAVs in all but very limited border airspace.
Second, how the hell is useing UAVs or any other serveilance technology to secure our borders, “US Military Hardware Turned on US Citizens”?
Either there’s some horrible threat to national security that is being kept secret, or everyone is turning into paranoid nuts. It seems preventing death is stopping everyone from living. Got news folks, you’re going to die anyway. You want to do it in a concrete bunker all safe and warm? Nuts, the whole world has gone nuts. Now I have to take a Xanax and a nap.
Why do we have these on the North Border? We need them on the Mexico Border, where all the illegals are flooding in!
I was thinking of heading down to New York with couple of friends to see a baseball game. But I think we will keep our money in Canada and head to Toronto instead. It is just not worth it to travel to the US anymore.
The things killing the people are killing the people burying the people killed by the things. At this rate we’ll need robots to bury the people being killed by the things.
“The people killed in South Waziristan region had been attending a funeral for others killed in a US drone strike earlier on Tuesday.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8115814.stm
“The US Customs and Border Protection’s office of air and marine have announced that a Predator drone plane has begun flights out of Fort Drum, NY” Windsor Star
At least with a pilot, if the thing konks out, he can fly away from homes or funeral homes. These things don’t care what they hit. I know, they will never break apart or die in flight. Murphy’s Law.
#24: I’m remembering a sliders episode now. In this one, the mexicans won the territory wars and took over the entire US and had the better economy, pushing Canadian “furbacks” into illegal immigration.
WHAT IN THE F is NNY?? I guess everybody within a 100 mile radius knows what the f NNY is, but hey it’s a big country. I don’t know if I’m within a 100 mile radius or not. WHY? Because how many people are supposed to know where/what the HELL NNY is???
mr peabody, don’t let the goofs drive you nuts. I went to Giants – A’s game is SF a couple of weeks back. The garlic fries did not sit well but everything else was fantastic including a world class 9-6-2 out at the plate.