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Here Are the States Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Drone Flyovers

Feb. 6, 2013 12:52pm Becket Adams

Eleven States Take Steps to Restrict Drone Flyovers

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What do Montana, California, Oregon, Texas, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, Florida, Virginia, Maine, and Oklahoma have in common? They are all currently looking to restrict the use of drones over their skies amid concerns the unmanned aerial vehicles could be exploited to spy on Americans.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says state legislators are proposing various restrictions on local authorities’ use of the technology.

Concerns mounted after the Federal Aviation Administration began establishing safety standards for civilian drones, which are becoming increasingly affordable and small in size.

Some police agencies have said the drones could be used for surveillance of suspects, search and rescue operations, and gathering details on damage caused by natural disasters.

Virginia lawmakers, for example, on Tuesday approved a two-year moratorium on the use of drones by police and government agencies.

Supporters of the legislation claim the use of drones could infringe on Virginians’ privacy rights. The legislation had the backing of the ACLU, the Tea Party Federation, and agriculture groups, while law enforcement organizations opposed the moratorium.

A Predator B unmanned aircraft takes off in Arizona. The aircraft patrol the southern border of the United Sates. (Gary Williams/Getty Images).

“Our founders had no conception of things that would fly over them at night and peer into their backyards and send signals back to a home base,” said Sen. A. Donald McEachin, D-Henrico, a sponsor of the Senate bill.

In a move to placate the law enforcement groups opposed to the two-year moratorium, Virginia legislators included a provision that would allow the use of drones only in the case of emergencies or missing children.

In Montana, a libertarian-minded state that doesn’t even let police use remote cameras to issue traffic tickets, Democrats and Republicans are banding together to back multiple proposals restricting drone use. They say drones, most often associated with overseas wars, aren’t welcome in Big Sky Country.

“I do not think our citizens would want cameras to fly overhead and collect data on our lives,” Republican state Sen. Matthew Rosendale told a legislative panel on Tuesday.

Rosendale is sponsoring a measure that would only let law enforcement use drones with a search warrant, and would make it illegal for private citizens to spy on neighbors with drones.

The full Montana Senate endorsed a somewhat broader measure Tuesday that bans information collected by drones from being used in court. It also would bar local and state government ownership of drones equipped with weapons, such as stunning devices.

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The ACLU said the states won’t be able to stop federal agencies or border agents from using drones. But the Montana ban would not allow local police to use criminal information collected by federal drones that may be handed over in cooperative investigations.

The drones could be wrongly used to hover over someone’s property and gather information, opponents said.

“The use of drones across the country has become a great threat to our personal privacy,” said ACLU of Montana policy director Niki Zupanic. “The door is wide open for intrusions into our personal private space.”

Other state legislatures looking at the issue include California, Oregon, Texas, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, Florida, Virginia, Maine, and Oklahoma.

A Missouri House committee looked at a bill Tuesday that would outlaw the use of unmanned aircraft to conduct surveillance on individuals or property, providing an exclusion for police working with a search warrant. It drew support from agricultural groups and civil liberties advocates.

“It’s important for us to prevent Missouri from sliding into a police-type state,” said Republican Rep. Casey Guernsey of Bethany.

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A North Dakota lawmaker introduced a similar bill in January following the 2011 arrest of a Lakota farmer during a 16-hour standoff with police. A drone was used to help a SWAT team apprehend Rodney Brossart.

Its use was upheld by state courts, but the sponsor of the North Dakota bill, Rep. Rick Becker of Bismarck, said safeguards should be put into place to make sure the practice isn’t abused.

Last year, Seattle police received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to train people to operate drones for use in investigations, search-and-rescue operations and natural disasters. Residents and the ACLU called on city officials to tightly regulate the information that can be collected by drones, which are not in use yet.

In Alameda County, Calif., the sheriff’s office faced backlash late last year after announcing plans to use drones to help find fugitives and assist with search and rescue operations.

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Comments (187)

kunman
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:33pm
Honestly, I trust the government with drones about as much as the liberals trust citizens having assault weapons,

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- spmcintyre
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:48pm
  It is more likely that somebody will die at the end of a government drone than at the end of a civilian rifle.
  
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- jeeree
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:06pm
  Aren’t congresspeople Drones of Obama.
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:31pm
  Minnesota will not say NO to drones. The Dems control the House, Senate and Governor’s office. They want us all to be sheeple. That is why they are running bills through with tougher gun restrictions than the Feds.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:57pm
  Shouldn’t we wait until the government actually tries to fly drones over America to worry about this?
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:59pm
  I wonder how Bob Mendenez would like a drone following him around?
  Smile!
  
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- Noah_fing-whey
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:10pm
  Keaton – seriously? That’s the most ridiculous comment I’ve seen in a while!
  
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- Flag-Man
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:17pm
  KEATONC333;
  No it is call preemptive strike
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:36pm
  i trust them a lot less and i am in florida…………………
  
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- NewMedia
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:19pm
  What’s really amazing in this whole drone debate is that the Obama administration was so critical of Bush over water boarding, yet killing people with drones is really not a problem. Just check this short video out, it says it all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z85X6im-4Qs
  
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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:29pm
  Incredible that our VA state legislators did something sensible.
  
  When I sent each of them (Delegates and Senators) an email asking for help, I received ONE reply. What was my request? Only that VA take the bull by the horns and put legal pressure on all the “unindicted co-conspirators” from the HLF terror trial who live and/or work in VA. Seems reasonable doesn’t it? A federal judge named 264 individuals and Muslim-based organizations based on FBI wiretaps and testimony. Eric Holder responded by shutting-down the trial of at least one of the named individuals. He was the co-founder of CAIR. CAIR was named too. So was ISNA and NAIT.
  
  I’m a reasonable guy; but, I’ll be damned if I won’t listen when a federal judge says that if the DoJ just brings a case against a named conspirator, he’ll hear it and they’ll probably get a conviction. Since the feds won’t act, why shouldn’t the states act to secure their own security? The problem is that there is so much foreign oil money flowing to the political class at the federal and state level, it’s difficult to get action on anything connected to oil and Muslims.
  
  So, when I hear that our VA pols think that drones over VA aren’t a good idea, I just smile and shake my head in disgust. No drones; but, we don’t want to upset that steady flow of campaign cash from the Saudis and others!
  
  “Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:33pm
  @ Keaton
  
  That’s like waiting for the government to abrogate the 1st and 2nd Amendments (or any other Amendment that suits them) before offering an opinion on the action.
  
  Would you really wait for tyrants to secure their hold on power before you offer judgement?
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Keatonc333 Kind-of like wait to seeing where the the cattle train is taking you? Dumb
  
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- GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:54pm
  @Keatonc333 If you live in NC, they are doing it already. A friend of mine went to a local frisbee golf course (central NC) and was followed by a quad copter drone once he got out of his truck. Later he learned some kids got busted w/ a bag of pot. He didn’t even know what a quad copter was, until I told him.
  
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- E.Souchak
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:06pm
  Must read
  
  U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s war against the truth
  
  http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2013/02/06/u-s-attorney-patrick-fitzgeralds-war-against-the-truth/
  
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- GirlyGirl77
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:28pm
  Could not agree MORE!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- Couyon64
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:42pm
  I agree. The government is the cause of almost all of the problems in this Country if you think about it. I read today that the Postal Service lost $16 billion dollars in 2012. They can’t even run the friggin post office without loosing their azz.
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:31pm
  @Keaton:
  Shouldn’t we wait until the robber puts a bullet through our head before we give up our wallet?
  
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- Thetrueamerican
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:55pm
  On the subject of drones, I find it hilarious how gun-nut conservatives think that upholding the constitution will help them fight the “tyrannical communist government” and secede from the “Socialist States of America”. Ask the citizens of Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan (drone victims) how futile it is to resist the awesome power of the United States federal government and YOUR commander-in-chief Barack Hussein Obama. If it comes to a civil war, you guys wouldn’t stand a chance.
  
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- MastrSSG
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:14am
  If this were Bush killing Americans without due Process the press and every progressive liberal on earth would be apoplectic asking for his head on a plate. Never mind what would happen if any other country on earth decided to send a drone here to kill someone living on this soil.
  
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- sacwoodpusher
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:24am
  I see now! The feds are worried that we’ll buy “assault weapons” to shhot down drones!!!
  
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- Libertarian
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:37am
  Huh? So Ron Paul and Herman Cain were not crazies when they came out against Obama using drones to fire on American citizens without the constitutional right to due process?….
  
  I remember arguing with MANY of my fellow conservatives on this forum about this very subject and being pawned off as a Paulian or Paul-bot. I guess consistency is less important when it is not election season.
  
  The hypocrisy.
  
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- jst1425
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:28am
  The “lame stream liberal media” are all drones working for obama…
  
  Just consider the similarity; “UNMANNED” “REMOTELY OPERATED” and “DRONE”…nuf said!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:20am
  @Keaton
  
  Following your way of approaching life, we should all wait until the gas chambers are built and running before we oppose them, as opposed to pre-empting their building before the first brick is laid.
  
  Do you bother to think things through before you post, or is it more or less stream of consciousness for you?
  
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- dcatkin
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:43am
  Every state in this country should resist the use of drones in the air space. I hope Utah is the next one to put up a resistance to this invasion of privacy, and danger form our great and wonderul Obama.
  
  Free Our Country
  
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- SavvyCowboy
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:21am
  The problem is Grand Forks (ND) Air Force Base is home to several dozen drones and they (along with the ND Air National Guard) do “training missions” all over the North Dakota skies. So any “bill” being proposed in the ND legislature will be warm water at best – they won’t “bite the hand that feeds them”.
  
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- searcher619
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:25pm
  We will see drones in wide use soon enough. Why? They are cheaper than paying a police officer to walk a beat. It will all come down to money. The people fretting over government drones are naive. When the government can pretty much listen in on nearly any and every conversation you have what does it matter if they have remote controlled vehicles flying around? Since when does the government need a drone to kill Americans on US soil? The drones in question are nothing more than mobile camera/surveillance platforms. Get back to me when they are trying to have ARMED drones watching Us citizens.
  
  I would have no issues with armed drones watching the US borders.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:48pm
  GWB wiretapping suspected terrorists?
  Horror of horrors!
  It could be used against innocent citizens, which is EVIL!
  
  BHO using drones to blow up suspected terrorists?
  That’s OK!
  It could be used against innocent citizens, but so what?
  
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madamH
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:30pm
How many of these states supposedly protesting FEDERAL drones actually possess their own unmanned devices?

Thanks to ‘stimulus’ and ‘Homeland Security Grants’, I would bet MANY state or local law enforcement agencies already have more than a few of these.

I know the municipality in which I live has some… and of course, when the issue was mentioned in the local paper, our local Fearless Leaders were quick to assure the public that these would be used “only in unpopulated areas, only for training purposes.” Really? The city in which we live has very little undeveloped/unoccupied space, so where exactly where these devices by ‘used’?

I no longer trust politicians at ANY level of government…. they’re all in the same business: Extract as much money and as many rights from the citizens as possible.

Period.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:45pm
  Some patriots need to figure out a way to defeat these creatures. Hell, those dumb ass Iranians intercepted one’s signal. There has to be a way to defeat them. We must find out where the controllers are located. Those that “fly” them.
  
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- OniKaze
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
  Better yet, if they are only for training purposes, then WHY do they even need them?
  
  I mean, does your state have a habit of wasting time and money training people on things they will never have or use??
  
  Thats like training your entire police force to be helicopter pilots when your dept. doesn’t even own a helicopter…
  
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- ldonnell
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:35pm
  training for what? either their gonna use them or not.
  
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- VetMike
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:23pm
  Mil Dot. Jessie has assured us that semi-auto handguns and “assault weapons” can shoot down planes and blow up railroads. A drone should be easy-peasy. Seriously though, your approach is the best. Once the drone loses its control signals. it self destructs. That is what should be worked on.
  Molon Labe
  
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- Brejamin
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:21pm
  I work with drones in the army known as (UAS)Unmanned aircraft Systems and RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) in the airforce. For one the FAA has not released the usage of any UAS in national airspace. If your local police are using them they have to have what is called a COA. It typically requires the usage of FAA trained observers that must stay in uninstructed LOS at all times and within 1.5 NM or 2 NM or have a chase plane.
  
  Someone mentioned that quad copter thing which I believe are like model airplanes so I think they may be able to use those. The beauty of those is they are easily commandeered have short flight times and very limited range. The army UAS require a bit of inside knowledge to commadeer but its not rocket science. I can’t speak for all military personnel but I for one will never allow the use of these on private citizens. Posse comitatus is pretty straight forward and I nor any people I work with would obey an illegal order such as that.
  
  The FAA has said that by 2015 they were going to outline how they are going to start letting UAS in national airspace. One of the biggest factors I hear limiting UAS is see and avoid technology. They also are going to start approving more COAs.
  
  Hopefully that at least gives y’all a bit of insight into the small UAS world.
  
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- searcher619
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:45pm
  there’s a HUGE difference between State/Local government doing this vs FEDERAL government doing this. You do get this right?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:11pm
  The States have ZERO power to stop the Federal Government from using drones over the states, the supermacy clause in the Constitution trumps any state law on the issue.
  
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- devildogger
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:30pm
  For what EXACTLY are they training? I’m sure it’s nothing nefarious.
  
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judyaz
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:20pm
Well, American citizens can only be killed if suspected of one day aiding or abetting an enemy (TBD). But foreigners must be captured actually fighting in a war against the U.S. to go to Gitmo and have their rights respected. So what’s there to worry about drones flying over our homes? All they do is spy on us.

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- IDIDBUILDTHIS
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:27pm
  For now….
  
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- smokie
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:27pm
  I’m by Wrtight Patt- I don’t feel like getting skygunned down for smoking in my backyard, to be honest.
  
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- searcher619
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:55pm
  Actually history teaches us that FEDERAL government will act against law abiding citizens w/o evidence of ANY wrong doing. Just ask Japanese-Americans who had to suffer through WWII. Anyone who places their trust in a strong Federal government is dangerously naive and/or stupid.
  
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Justanormalguy
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:19pm
I can see where drone usage would be good in certain situations. I just don’t trust the government to use it only in those situations.

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- searcher619
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:58pm
  I don’t trust the Federal government with those tools. Each state should have its own fleet of drones and the Federal government should have to ask a state for access to their drones and abide by the state laws and regulations regarding their use.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:16pm
We need a drone free zone over the U.S, I wonder how many votes that’ll get from the progs in our one party system? Yeah they’ll line right up to limit their power and control over us.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Exactly Slayer,
  The vermin we call “politicians” are scared to death of us. And they better be. They will always vote to keep the lap of luxery and to rape us of our earnings and freedoms. For if we are suppressed, they get to prosper. Steak and lobster and palm-greasing every night for these criminals. Happens every day . They are despicable. All of them. Dems and Gops. Enemies of the people. Seek them. Find their hideouts and enclaves.
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:54am
  I fear bad laws-like the government deciding it can kill even citizens who the government deems is a threat-without due process or even having done anything. That is the issue that is a violation of american values.Not the technology of drones which as spy planes can be used to stop crimes or identify criminals or help people in distress. Perhaps there is a bit of fascism in me-but if i’m not doing anything wrong-i have no problem with being spied on by drones.If i’m stranded in the middle of no-where i would be glad to know there may be drones overhead to find me.These targeted killings are what is really unamerican and scary and shocking.That in america we now have a government that can kill someone for expressing a political opinion .Unbelievable.
  
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firman
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:06pm
Ground control to Major Tom…Shoot that unmanned drone plane down….

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- kunman
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:35pm
  Drones can shoot back (X10)
  
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- firman
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:43pm
  Not If they get shot down first. Besides, it was a joke. Ever hear the song?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:00pm
  FIRMAN, LOL.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFks9A9TCF0
  
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- firman
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:15pm
  Thanks Rj… hadn’t heard it in awhile.
  
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EQUALIZER
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:05pm
Move to a state with common sense and leave California.

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SquidVetOhio
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:01pm
Obama sucks so bad that he has me siding with the ACLU. Ugh….

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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:34pm
  Lol
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:50pm
we will have to get our own model planes not as good but none the less airborne we will be

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- REPUBLICANINCALI
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:03pm
  I wonder what the government would do if we used model RC planes with a GoPro attached and flew over their facilities?
  
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- DefyTYRANNY
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:40pm
  Republicanincali,
  
  Arrest you and detain you indefinitely most likely.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:03pm
  Defy,
  Please don’t make them out to be supermen. They are not. Ink on paper is just that. Ultimately, force rules the day. Don’t lie down for them and be a defeatist. The batttle has not even begun. Hopefully it will not. But, that is wishful thinking, Many will perish. Many will not. Stand tall.
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:48pm
How do we know Obama inst trying to kill folks that didn’t agree or vote for him. remember do it for vengeance he told his voters. I wouldn’t trust him one bit hes a dangerous fool.

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- jungle J
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:01pm
  you speak as crazily as a progressive trying to stir the pot….well are y
  
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- 50calgunner
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:26pm
  Jungle juice. You are the real progressive! What saff sgt wrote is more probable than you would care to admit
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:38pm
These drones need to be shot out of the air if you see them

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- DefyTYRANNY
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:46pm
  Hahaha, you got a basement full of anti-aircraft missiles?
  
  You gonna take one out with small arms fire? Little too high for that buddy, these aren’t ultralights or little birds.
  
  Many of the missiles the military use can be fired from dozens of miles away.
  
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carhouse
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:37pm
Dan Malloy …Connecticut Gov’t

PUT US ON THIS LIST

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EdgeOfSanity
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:31pm
People will say that if you aren’t doing anything wrong what difference does it make . . . then the next thing . . . and the next . . . and who is the one that makes that determination of whether something is or is not wrong.

Look at the definition in the MO study of potential homeland terrorists . . . voted for a third party candidate, ex-military, vocal supporter of the Constitution, owning more than 10,000 rounds of ammo.

We could all somehow be labeled terrorists in “their” view.

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- GO-FOR-LIBERTY
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:09pm
  Exactly, what is wrong is now right and right is now wrong. Stop the merry-go-round~~~I want off!!
  
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crystalsky
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:29pm
They want drones gun control arrest anybody for anything no court date no trials. But they let drones planes money guns and anything that morsi and im a nut job and that (north Korea creep wants they should go get that nut job to) But the tax payers and citizens of the U.S. they want more control of them let’s get them. you know these power grabbing people are amazing to me. do they really thing that this technology cant turn on them as in high power, they forgot 1 thing there is always people in wait to take your spot.The back stabbers. They have no business spying on Citizens or trying to take guns or ******* on the constitution. Something is wrong when Israel and the U.S. citizens are the ones they want to watch while giving away stuff to Im a nut job and creeps why did they not take the planes back when the sneaky snake im a nut job come out to play with morsi, why is the president going to Israel soon now that the planes have been delivered ?

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- rose-ellen
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Just because we have a problem with iran does not mean egypt should. The world and its people do not belong to us-no matter how many drones we have.Just because we’re a superpower does not mean we can control the world.The world and its peoples are doing their thing -in spite of what we think about it.
  
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Chuck7884
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:24pm
Here is another thing to consider. A flame out where the engine dies due to interruption of the air flow at the intake means all power is lost due to the engine not running in an aircraft the pilot can use manual controls to safely guide the the aircraft. drone would drop like a rock and some of them are very large with allot of fuel how big of an area lets say Dallas would one these Drones take out?.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:21pm
If Iran can Bring them Down.

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commoncents5
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:20pm
They would be perfect to use on the border or to take out the drug cartel!

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Chuck7884
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:15pm
How about Accidental collisions Read about how crowded our Air space already is now they want unmanned drones! It is a matter of time before one of these drones takes out a airplane.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:42pm
  How about I don’t want them flying around like cops in the sky. How about I don’t want to live under tyranny? Because that is exactly what it will be if those monsters are allowed to fly over us. We will then be subjects, not citizens. If our state govt’ will not do something about it, the people will. And any traitor that sides with those that try to take our freedom away will pay dearly for it.
  
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- 50calgunner
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:39pm
  Mil dot
  I couldn’t of said it any better.
  
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Mudd
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:13pm
Like it or not, it’s going to happen. The country belongs to the government, not us. There are enough frightened idiots out there who will demand it once Big Brother spins it into a saftey issue.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:16pm
  Once a huge number of baby-boomer senior leeches die off, we will then be able to get some sanity back into govt. If we last that long. Those old fogies are the ones that voted for the gravy train. They basically gave the middle finger to their kids and grand children in exchange for more of our money and freedoms. I can’t wait until they leave us. They have ruined this country. They have allowed the commies to gain a foothold. They will not have to fight for it. They will just float off into la la land while we battle for our nation.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:33pm
  Yeah, your pretty much right on there. I’m an A$$ End Boomer, born inj 1960 and I’ve been watching these idiot hypocrits push everyone around and demand things be done their way since I was a kid. Their way sure worked out great, didn’t. Pretty much a wasted generation of spoiled brats. Adolph Hitler’s bastard spawn (without Hitler, no WWII, no WWII, no baby boom).
  
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lynnissmart
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:10pm
Another power grab…..the power grabs are happening at such an increased speed that it’s hard to keep up…..one after another, after another…..The Republicans sit with their mouths shut!!!!

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woodyee
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:07pm
Spying on citizens must not be allowed ANYWHERE.

I’d much rather see the House Un-American Activities Committee restored, and YOU ought to be demanding FULL public vetting, without condition, on active Congressmen, active Senators and potential Congressional and Senatorial appointments, any and all candidates for the same offices, as well, and most importantly, Judicial appointments.

THAT is the RIGHT THING to do.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:05pm
Pakistan has bee trying to restrict the use of drones over their skies for a while now. I’m guessing the states won’t fare any better.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Afraid that you are right.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:33pm
  fight fire with fire, citizen drones and goverment drones, star wars drone wars.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:23pm
  Taking orders now…..FLOL
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
  
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Female
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:05pm
Arizona needs to get on your list or at least restrict it to within 5 mls of the Mexican border and surveilance only.

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:04pm
Toys R Us has a video platform drone copter that uses a smart phone app, ladies, sunbathing just got public.

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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:38pm
  I want one……plane that is.
  
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hi
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:57pm
No big brother. Take cameras off of streets too.

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- Larry E
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:03pm
  Glad to see that Montana is one of the states saying no thanks. We don’t need flying drones, there are enough wandering around on the ground already.
  
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- Saff SGT
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 2:52pm
  shoot them off
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:54pm
  How is a unarmed drone different then a police helicopter. -iIask?Being able to see what’s happening below-is that not a good way to stop crimes going on ?
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:01pm
  Rose Ellen: Helicopters are not flying around spying on people. Most police agencies can’t afford them due to the cost and associated overhead. Helicopters are used as a reaction to a crime i.e. someone robs a store, the police respond and call in a helicopter.
  
  Drones are designed to spy on people and have the ability to engage by firing different weapons. Police helicopter can’t shoot at people. Any more questions?
  
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