With government agencies across the spectrum as well as private industries looking into the idea of cheap surveillance drones for all kinds of domestic uses, it looked like Americans were going to have to resign to full scale, 24-hour aerial surveillance.
Yet when this was pointed out to American civilians, it didn’t set nearly as well with them as expected, and now politicians are scrambling to re-write the laws, which in this case means having laws at all, governing the new technology.
This has drone companies in a panic, fearing that actual limits on their use and a major public backlash could mean drones aren’t going to be the boom industry inside America that they were anticipating.
They are appealing to politicians’ sense of national pride now, instead of worrying about the public itself, insisting that America’s lead in drone technology could be in jeopardy if Congress doesn’t lay off and let them grow completely unregulated.
Ahhhh…. Too bad. Honestly, to hell with them all.
Americans will have drones, drones up the ying-yang. First they´ll be surveillance drones and then armed drones. Since when do our leaders give a hoot what the American public thinks?
Besides, isn´t it a form of poetic justice that Americans get drones? Since they didn´t and still don´t speak out against drones being used to kill brown people in other parts of the world, shouldn´t they get the opportunity to experience their government´s new technology first hand?
What do they expect after the way drones have been used.