In a darkened underground room 35 miles Northwest of Las
Vegas, Nevada US airmen are controlling the unmanned drones which might be
looking at you this very moment. Creech AFB, (formerly
known as Indian Springs), is but one of 63 such UAV command centers across America
today. Now not all of these are
military; with increasing & alarming frequency such sites are run by your
local & state police, as well as Darpa, homeland security and the usual
alphabet soup of domestic security agencies.
As if the patriot acts, echelon & carnivore, and more surveillance
cameras every day weren’t enough for them, now our government is spying on our
every move with armed combat drones.
Does this seem right to you? Just exactly how is this O.K.??
Stationed at Creech AFB; homeland security and the US border patrol operate drones
of various designs to monitor activity in the land of the free, beginning with
the massive Global Hawk which can loiter on station for days, recording and
transmitting its data to multiple agencies, as needed. There is some speculation that a global hawk
was what hit the pentagon eleven years ago.
The original predator combat drones proved to have a few serious
limitations, which of course begat the next variant, the MQ-9 Reaper drone, which is now the workhorse of the UAV fleet.
There wasn’t an awful lot of protest here at home when these drones were only being used overseas to persecute ‘the war on terror,’ killing scores of innocent human beings in the process. With the help of a compliant media our government had little trouble touting the myriad benefits to using these unmanned killing machines, and our slumbering population barely raised a whisper in protest when it was announced a few years ago that homeland security would be using drones to protect our borders from terrorists.
Under the umbrella of our compliant silence, the psychopaths
in power very quietly moved their drone agenda into high gear. Last February congress passed H.R.-658 under
the name FAA modernization & reform act, perhaps better known as the Skynet
surveillance enabling act of 2012. This
60+ billion dollar program gave the funding and green light to having some
30,000 drones authorized for use in American skies.
Take a minute; let that sink in…thirty
thousand drones.
Why? Might this in some way be connected to the
ludicrous amount of ammunition DHS has recently ordered, again, for domestic
use? Will these drones be used as air cover for the IED proof armored assault buggies recently seen in several parts of the country?
Almost overnight it seems, second and third generation
drones like the military grade yet street legal Honeywell T-hawk were being deployed by domestic police and federal
agencies. Naturally, at first we were
told such drones would only be used to fight crime and evildoers on our home
soil, and because we wanted to, we believed or ignored the lie, again. They allowed us to sit with the new status
quo for a little while before ever so casually announcing that it was now going
to be necessary to arm these drones with rockets & missiles, you know,
because of the terrorists everywhere.
Nowadays these domestic drones are coming in smaller sizes,
with hovering and tracking capability. The
ShadowHawk is a little thing not much larger than a basketball which can
silently hover over a neighborhood, or a single residence, with high resolution
cameras, microphones and who knows what else?
And not all these new drones can fly; there is a whole sub-species of
unmanned drones designed to enter buildings and kill people. Such things were just fine and dandy in Iraq
and Afghanistan …not
so much when it’s us they’re spying on. With the ever widening definition of
who is a terrorist, I think we all have a great deal to be concerned about with
this issue.
Yet even with this, the powers that be were not satisfied (they never are!) and began the next
phase of the domestic drone program; mini-drones, and micro-drones. These newest generations of drones are so
incredibly sophisticated, and small you’d think they were right out of a
science fiction movie. When it comes to
homegrown drones the rule of thumb is the smaller, the scarier! They now have a fully operational “mosquito
drone” capable of actually injecting whatever they wish into a
person.
George Orwell must be break
dancing in his grave!
On the one hand this would all seem to be just more big
brother mentality from the police state, seeking greater and greater control over
all of us. It is, after all, what they
do.
These last few years it indeed seems “they” are trying to become Darth Vader, or some equally
frightening specter of death. There is a
reason for that, and it’s the exact same reason they feel they need 30 thousand
drones; they fear us. If their lock on
everything was air tight there would be no reason for drones overhead or storm
troopers on our streets. They fear us!
Take another minute, let that soak in too.
Their world is dying just as certainly as did the dinosaurs
from which they built their empires. The
signs of this are everywhere for those who have eyes that see and ears that
hear, and it’s becoming more and more evident with each passing week. I believe it was George H.W. Bush who once
said something to the effect that if we ever caught on to them, they would be
tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail. They fear us all coming aware at once, they
fear what we might do to them. For those
who profit by the selling of fear are not exempt of its influence, no matter
how rich, no matter what bloodline.
The drones are just another symptom of what the Hopi call Koyaanisqatsi, or “Life out of
balance.” Just one more thing on a long
list of things we should have never allowed to see the light of day, things we
turned a blind eye to, thus giving our collective tacit approval. The drones
remind me of another Hopi word, Naqoyqatsi
meaning “Life as War.” I just can’t help
wondering where we’re going to draw the line, and when.
Anyway, that’s my rant on drones, at least until my cat
catches one and brings the trophy home.
A much better one is this video, “Murder by Joystick” by Zen
Gardner and Snordelhans.
~Until Next time - Be Good to Each Other~
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