Michael Edwards
Activist Post

In a stark admission, two-star General, John Priddy, from the U.S.
National Air Security Operations Center, confirmed in the video below
that the continued expansion of predator drone surveillance is a
stated goal for the coming years. His comments were echoed by Al
Palmer, Director of Unmanned Aircraft Training at the world's largest
center at the University of North Dakota, "The world is going to spend
$80 billion on unmanned aircraft between now and 2016."

The idea for predator drone surveillance of Americans was kept under
wraps until fairly recently. Even after a 2007 local news station in
Texas captured drone flight tests
on video, it was roundly denied as conspiracy theory that unmanned
drones would actually take flight over America. Further investigation
revealed that this flight test coincided with a plan already in place to
patrol far inland beyond the legal 100-mile security border, also known
as the Constitution-free Zone.

Then, early this year, Miami-Dade county openly admitted to ordering a 16-pound T-Hawk micro drone which clearly indicates a move to miniaturize surveillance
in order to bring it right into the streets of America, rather than the
continued military propaganda stating that unmanned drones will be used
only for border control operations.

As Dana Gabriel and others have covered, Canada and the U.S. have formed a clear
perimeter security and trade alliance which for all practical purposes
removes the border between the two countries, thus allowing for drones
to go beyond the previous 16-kilometer buffer zone and continue right to
the border of Canada. This ultimately allows for coast-to-coast
surveillance.

Now that we know that "the ultimate goal" is 24-hour eye-in-the-sky
surveillance by predator drones within civilian airspace from coast to
coast, do we believe General Priddy when he asserts that this technology
will be applied to "search and rescue" missions during natural
disasters? Or, rather, should we be asking if the next logical step is
for these drones to be weaponized?







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