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Pauls' Revere
10-04-2018, 10:07 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/senate-passes-bill-that-lets-the-government-destroy-private-drones/ar-BBNVsmH
This week, the Senate passed the FAA Reauthorization Act, which, among other things, renews funding for the Federal Aviation Administration and introduces new rules for airports and aircraft. But the bill, which now just needs to be signed by the president, also addresses drones. And while parts of the bill extend some aspects of drone use -- such as promoting drone package delivery and drone testing -- it also gives the federal government power to take down a private drone if it's seen as a "credible threat."
The wording comes from another bill, the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which was strongly supported by the Department of Homeland Security and absorbed into the FAA Reauthorization Act. In June, as part of its argument as to why it needed more leeway when it comes to drones, the agency said that terrorist groups overseas "use commercially available [unmanned aircraft systems] to drop explosive payloads, deliver harmful substances and conduct illicit surveillance," and added that the devices are also used to transport drugs, interfere with law enforcement and expolit unsecured networks.
The bill says that when a "credible threat" is posed by a drone to a "covered facility or asset," the federal government can "disrupt control" of that device, "seize or exercise control" of it, confiscate it or "use reasonable force, if necessary, to disable, damage or destroy the unmanned aircraft system." In the bill, "credible threat" is left undefined.
...but dont look at theirs in a insolent manner!
Pauls' Revere
10-04-2018, 10:12 AM
On a side topic: I'm tired of the worn out excuse the ACLU always puts forth. All they seem to do is cut and paste this response as I did from the article.
However, the bill's vague language and lack of oversight measures attracted criticism from groups like the ACLU, which said earlier this year that the proposed law contained "insufficient protections to ensure that such authority is not used arbitrarily, abusively or unnecessarily, and would permit conduct that raises privacy and due process concerns."
Yawn...let me know when the ACLU has actually done something.
TheCount
10-04-2018, 10:19 AM
On a side topic: I'm tired of the worn out excuse the ACLU always puts forth. All they seem to do is cut and paste this response as I did from the article.
Yawn...let me know when the ACLU has actually done something.
What happens when you replace ACLU in your post with Ron Paul?
shakey1
10-04-2018, 10:27 AM
See where this awesome technology has gotten us?:collision:
Pauls' Revere
10-04-2018, 10:30 AM
What happens when you replace ACLU in your post with Ron Paul?
Less government and more freedom.
TheCount
10-04-2018, 10:46 AM
Less government and more freedom.
More freedom and less government? You mean the same worn out old excuse for an argument that he makes?
Yawn. Let me know when he actually does something.
devil21
10-04-2018, 10:46 AM
On a side topic: I'm tired of the worn out excuse the ACLU always puts forth. All they seem to do is cut and paste this response as I did from the article.
However, the bill's vague language and lack of oversight measures attracted criticism from groups like the ACLU, which said earlier this year that the proposed law contained "insufficient protections to ensure that such authority is not used arbitrarily, abusively or unnecessarily, and would permit conduct that raises privacy and due process concerns."
Yawn...let me know when the ACLU has actually done something.
ACLU is a controlled opposition front. They always have some comment, like you posted, available after the fact and maybe file a lawsuit that never actually changes anything. Then ask for donations because of all they're doing to look out for you. The point is so that uncontrolled masses don't organize, with the ability to actually effect policy. Rest easy, someone else is doing it for you.
Ender
10-04-2018, 11:12 AM
On a side topic: I'm tired of the worn out excuse the ACLU always puts forth. All they seem to do is cut and paste this response as I did from the article.
However, the bill's vague language and lack of oversight measures attracted criticism from groups like the ACLU, which said earlier this year that the proposed law contained "insufficient protections to ensure that such authority is not used arbitrarily, abusively or unnecessarily, and would permit conduct that raises privacy and due process concerns."
Yawn...let me know when the ACLU has actually done something.
I've seen religious groups helped by the ACLU.
More freedom and less government? You mean the same worn out old excuse for an argument that he makes?
Yawn. Let me know when he actually does something.
He cured my apathy
F
U
Swordsmyth
10-04-2018, 01:05 PM
I've seen religious groups helped by the ACLU.
They have to maintain their cover occasionally.
Pauls' Revere
10-04-2018, 04:37 PM
ACLU is a controlled opposition front. They always have some comment, like you posted, available after the fact and maybe file a lawsuit that never actually changes anything. Then ask for donations because of all they're doing to look out for you. The point is so that uncontrolled masses don't organize, with the ability to actually effect policy. Rest easy, someone else is doing it for you.
^this^
Pauls' Revere
10-04-2018, 04:40 PM
More freedom and less government? You mean the same worn out old excuse for an argument that he makes?
Yawn. Let me know when he actually does something.
where/what is the Ron Paul (mentality) equivalent? What ".org" should I send my money too?
Pauls' Revere
10-04-2018, 04:41 PM
ACLU is a controlled opposition front. They always have some comment, like you posted, available after the fact and maybe file a lawsuit that never actually changes anything. Then ask for donations because of all they're doing to look out for you. The point is so that uncontrolled masses don't organize, with the ability to actually effect policy. Rest easy, someone else is doing it for you.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to devil21 again.
Swordsmyth
10-04-2018, 04:56 PM
American
Communist
Lawyers
Union
The ACLU’s chief founders were communists and communist sympathizers, including top Communist Party officials William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Louis Budenz. Roger N. Baldwin, another of the co-founders (and the ACLU’s executive director from 1920-1950) may not have been an official card-carrying CPUSA member, but he was a willing collaborator. He wrote:
I am for socialism.... I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.... I don’t regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it.
Despite utilizing more moderate rhetoric than many of their earlier Bolsheviki forebears, the NLG and the ACLU have not swerved from their leftward course. Neither have they deviated from Comintern plan for exploiting immigration and migration issues to batter down our borders and transform the United States into a mere cog in a global socialist system. But don’t expect any of the fake journalists of the Fake News organizations to mention any of this.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...-ice-agitation (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/29709-the-communists-behind-the-abolish-ice-occupy-ice-agitation)
Danke
10-04-2018, 05:13 PM
American
Communist
Lawyers
Union
The ACLU’s chief founders were communists and communist sympathizers, including top Communist Party officials William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Louis Budenz. Roger N. Baldwin, another of the co-founders (and the ACLU’s executive director from 1920-1950) may not have been an official card-carrying CPUSA member, but he was a willing collaborator. He wrote:
I am for socialism.... I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.... I don’t regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it.
Despite utilizing more moderate rhetoric than many of their earlier Bolsheviki forebears, the NLG and the ACLU have not swerved from their leftward course. Neither have they deviated from Comintern plan for exploiting immigration and migration issues to batter down our borders and transform the United States into a mere cog in a global socialist system. But don’t expect any of the fake journalists of the Fake News organizations to mention any of this.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...-ice-agitation (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/29709-the-communists-behind-the-abolish-ice-occupy-ice-agitation)
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Swordsmyth again
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