Drones Shot Down Over Texas

Surveillance drones blasted out of the sky in protest against 4th amendment intrusion

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Following columnist Charles Krauthammer’s observation that the first person to shoot down a surveillance drone on U.S. soil will be a “folk hero,” gun enthusiasts in Texas have done precisely that as a protest against the use of spy drones on the American people.

Using consumer drones as target practice, Alex Jones and the Steiner brothers tested out the best way to bring down the drones on the 10,000 acre Steiner ranch as part of filming for Brothers in Arms, a new show which focuses on firearms and the second amendment.

With spy drones now commercially available for less than $1,000 dollars that are barely any different from the ones being used by police departments to spy on the public, Jones and the Steiners made short work of the devices during filming.

This was an exercise in pushing the message that the use of surveillance drones in U.S. skies must be politically shot down because it represents a complete violation of the 4th amendment right to privacy.

Congress recently passed legislation paving the way for what the FAA predicts will be somewhere in the region of 30,000 drones in operation in US skies by 2020.

Privacy advocates have warned that the FAA has not acted to establish any safeguards whatsoever, and that lawmakers are not holding the agency to account.

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In addition, a recently uncovered Air Force document circumvents laws and clears the way for the Pentagon to use drones to monitor the activities of Americans.

Incidents involving the drones in recent months have hardly provided positive spin for the industry, which is why Americans are set to witness a massive PR campaign that will “bombard the American public with positive images and messages about drones in an effort to reverse the growing perception of the aircraft as a threat to privacy and safety.”

Earlier this month, a mystery object, thought to be a military or law enforcement drone, flying in controlled airspace over Denver almost caused a catastrophic mid air crash with a commercial jet.

Last summer, police in North Dakota used a Predator drone to spy on a family who refused to give back three cows and their calves that wandered onto their 3,000-acre farm.

Watch out for the next episode in which you’ll see a full size drone blasted out of the sky. Watch the first installment of Brothers in Arms below.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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Comment by Maria De Wind on May 31, 2012 at 7:37pm: Keeping Drones From Crashing

A + B + C _ D = undesirable drone free zone, there's plenty of ways to party

Comment by TheLasersShadow on May 31, 2012 at 6:48pm: SAIGA 12 IS DRONE KILLER!! YA!! LEGAL TOOO!!

Its those damn high flying predators and reapers you have to worry about... I guess we're just going to have to collectively as a nation learn guided rocket motor engineering lol!!

Comment by Cryptocurrency on May 30, 2012 at 12:10pm: The police are using small drones the approx. size of the commercial drones Alex and company shot down in this video. I know some may not like Alex for whatever reason but he's not stupid. The first logical step here was to shoot down a commercial drone and then, as stated in the video get an actual police drone to test, and fire upon.

The intent here is much more than just shooting like cowboys at remote control planes. They are trying to get people contemplating how to take these things down. This includes gun enthusiasts and tech nerds that can more than likely build machines of their own to disrupt and possibly knock these police drones right out of the sky. Imagine an anti-drone, civilian technology capable of a mid air type flechette/shotgun blast aimed at the propellers of a police drone such as this one:

Comment by Maria De Wind on May 29, 2012 at 10:10pm: MMhhh does EMF jamming their control counts? There's got to be more than one way to pluck these chickens

Comment by DTOM on May 29, 2012 at 8:13pm: Somebody will mate tech like this to multispectral sensors/optics and a large cal self loader...

Or

Someone will build their own drones to take down those of the PTB.

Comment by suzie on May 29, 2012 at 5:43pm: when its them or us .. all laws will fly out the window.. the bigger they are the harder they will fall

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Comment by suzie on May 29, 2012 at 5:13pm: i like all that testosterone shtf i want as much of that testosterone as possible close by..

Comment by suzie on May 29, 2012 at 5:03pm: @ H●ȴȴɣѾͼͽᵭ whats yer beef with AJ? just curious .. what am i missing how is he as bad as the guvmint? lol

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on May 29, 2012 at 4:59pm: lol...ego's always gotta stroke testosterone...what a waste, and yet BlowHard begs for more money, and his herd gives....he's as bad as the Guvmint