Prepare To Be Droned, America
by Philippe Gastonne
The Daily Bell
It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.
With all the concern over the militarization of police in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the first in the union to allow police to equip drones with “less than lethal” weapons. House Bill 1328 wasn’t drafted that way, but then a lobbyist representing law enforcement—tight with a booming drone industry—got his hands on it.
The bill’s stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of Representative Rick Becker’s bill would have banned all weapons on police drones.
Then Bruce Burkett of the North Dakota Peace Officer’s Association was allowed by the state house committee to amend HB 1328 and limit the prohibition only to lethal weapons. “Less than lethal” weapons like rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers are therefore permitted on police drones. – The Daily Beast, Aug. 26, 2015
The technology that lets unmanned U.S. drones blow up alleged “enemy combatants” in the Middle East is coming home. U.S. police departments, which already embraced drones for surveillance purposes, now want to deploy weapons on them.
North Dakota’s legislature officially authorized the state’s police departments to mount non-lethal weapons on drones. Will lethal ones be next? Of course. Government power, once granted, always expands.
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They can’t even keep email secure.
We will hack the drones and use them against them.
Looks like could become open season for drones…