America’s drone war over America? It’s more likely than you think.
Reports coming out over the weekend say that military Predator drones, the same kind used for assassinations in the Pakistani tribal areas, are now being used by local police departments inside the United States. In Grand Forks, North Dakota, officials confirm at least two dozen drone missions for the local police coming out of the nearby Air Force Base. “We don’t use drones on every call out,” promised SWAT chief Bill Macki, which might be at least some comfort for the time being.
Any government that would use these things against their own people is worse than the Soviet Union ever was as far as being a police state.
There goes Posse Comitatus!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's been dead for a long time through Pentagon gifting of weapons. The Senates passage of totalitarian laws would simply codify it's demise.
Termites have taken over the country. They have devoured all the vital fibers and left only hollowed out make believe structures, empty words and vain gestures.
“We don’t use drones on every call out,”
Notice it's the SWAT vermin taking point for this. They've been used to exercise even simple warrants when long ago we were lied into believing they'd only be there for hostage and "extreme" cases. Now for everyday mundane tasks such as hunting down lost cattle you get sub machine guns shoved into your face thanks to Big Brothers eye in the sky. Are the Predators going to be the beginning of SWATs new Air Force?
Notice how in almost every photo you see of police now they are in full combat gear- flak vests, kevlar helmets, face masks, machine guns, etc., etc., ad nauseum. Exactly who are they dressing up for? do they *really* expect a terrorist ambush every time they make a traffic stop? Do they *really* think an ""I Love My Hometown" parade is cover for subversive agitators bent on the destruction of the very fabric of our society?
I'd almost go so far as to hop down to the local supply store and get myself kitted out in the latest bulletproof police fashion and just wear it around town. After all, I'm just taking steps to protect myself from any stray bullets or shrapnel should I find myself in the middle of a Terrorist Attack ™ while shopping at Wal-Mart or Target.
LOL… Of course when you or I wear such accoutrements we'd be targeted as "para-military kooks" while those who habitually abuse us wear them then it's A-OK. Makes you think.
What budget is paying for police use of Predators? The local police department, or the Pentagon? No, matter- either way, it's wrong.
Its only a matter of time, rather sooner than later, before these will be "armed" Predator drones. Justice, or what passes for that anachronism, will be 'instant justice in the streets, Judge Dredd fashion. The enabling legislation has mostly already been passed by 'our' politicians in Washington — now its a matter of political will to use that deadly force.
As that Machiavellian Zionist dual USA-Israeli citizen and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel has been quoted saying (un-redacted), " … never let a good crisis go to waste (, and if that crisis cannot be found, then create it.) From that attitude sprung the USA PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, and so much more, like Operation Fast & Furious and Sections 1031 & 1032 of the 2010 NDAA.
The national security surveillance police state envisioned by George Orwell in '1984' has de facto replaced the USA Constitution & Bill of Rights. The Rule of Law and equal protection under the law has been replaced by lawlessness driven by the Kleptocracy. "It's not illegal if the President does it" made famous by Richard Nixon has been replaced by "It's not illegal if it advances the goals of the (Corporatist) Party."
The Tyco, Worldcom, and Enron debacles were mere public conditioning for the truly massive frauds perpetrated by the Economic Collapse of September 2008 and what has followed subsequently, with Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon Iran as the 'shiny distractions' in the contrived War of Terror. The same Big Three credit bureaus and the same Wall Street Mobsters are involved again, with their collaborators within government agencies, and with the same Federal Reserve System at the center of this conspiratorial web.
Why aren't we out in the street in our millions?
Because we're not starving yet. Just wait until more right wing immigration laws run off the labor like they did in Alabama and presto! Instant starvation. Or how about when they print one too many funny notes and the reserve currency thing just falls apart. Perhaps when they invade Iran or Pakistan and end up in WWIII and there ain't squat to eat cause it all got nuked…Then we'll be in the streets … but by then will it matter? Will it be anything other than a collection of miserable souls trying desperately to avoid the blind thrashings of a dying, senile old leviathan?
What happens when- not if, WHEN- an armed Predator operator 'makes a mistake' or there is a 'mechanical failure' and a Hellfire missile is dumped into an American wedding party or a school or shopping area and we have innocent American bodies strewn all over in pieces?
Besides the obvious tragedy of the loss of life- who will be responsible? Will the local police department who ordered the flight be accountable, or will it be the military operators of the craft? Will the manufacturers be liable for faulty equipment? And will those dead American be swept under the rug like so much Middle Eastern 'collateral damage'?
The first time an American is killed by one of these things- especially if it's an accident- we will see the true face of our government (as if we don't already know what it looks like).
I feel doubleplusungood about Predators. Oh, forgive my reversion to anachronistic terminology- instead of 'Predator' I meant to say "Winged Angel of Protection'.