Predator drones over North Dakota;
The case drew widespread attention because police used a military-style unmanned drone to conduct surveillance on the Brossart farm. Brossart was found not guilty of stealing the cows and got six months in prison over the police standoff, Forbes reported.
Brossart’s attorney asked a judge to drop the charges because he said the drone use was done without a warrant. The judge, however, rejected the motion, the report said.
Liberals love change, that’s why they voted “black”, in the hope that one day a Marxist Mugabe wannabe could spy on and arrest them on a whim.
Looks like You Won America.
Predator drones for hunting cattle rustlers? Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour are spinning in their graves. On the brighter side, Russia now has a new market for selling SAMs.
Texas Canuck >
“Predator drones for hunting cattle rustlers?”
Absolutely, cattle rustling has been the biggest crisis to face the US in the 20th century!
Years ago, some cattle rustlers came across some Mexican illegal immigrants and refused to give them water!
Apparently it took almost 2 hours for the Border Agents to get water and a ride to LA for them, which caused the biggest domestic crisis Obamba Regime has faced, as the overtime was not in their Contracts.
maybe this puppy will do instead of a foreign SAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcEvBwMKZ9s
Whats the access codes?
Contact Al Queda .
Watch your self on spy TV.
Slight step up from reality TV and lightyears more accurate than the MSM.
How long before a nasty hacker, overrides the command signal and returns to sender?
So let me get this straight – he was NOT guilty of stealing the cows, but they nailed him with resisting and causing a standoff anyway because he didn’t “go quietly” and give in to their tyranny? So what would have happened next, that he end up being shot to death because he “resisted”?
You know, I used to be a big supporter of the police, but I have been wondering for some time now if THEY are the enemy as well.
Unfortunately, the police are often used as a tool of the government. They are neither good nor bad themselves, but are required to follow the chain of command. When the top of that chain is controlled by someone with less than honorable intentions, you can quickly lose the population’s faith in the police as a force that serves the good of the people.
pete wrote:
“Unfortunately, the police are often used as a tool of the government. They are neither good nor bad themselves, but are required to follow the chain of command.”
That defense was rejected at Nuremberg.
Indeed,
One of the reasons police recruiting has a different set of values to evaluate today.
Question #1:
Are you a steroid junky with a shaved head, with a grade 12 public education, and prone to fantasies of beating up 92 year old defenseless grandmothers?
A) Yes – (Hired)
B) No – FO and get a real job @sshole.
It goes without saying that we are wary of government: politicians, bureaucrats, and even the judiciary.
But we should be especially wary of the police. The have guns. Any policeman may kill you without penalty as long as there was the remotest chance that he feared for his safety. This excuse to use deadly force is often abused.
I could name many instances of culpable homicide by the police, as I’m sure many of you could also, that did not result in any penalties. Tales of corruption are legendary.
The police are not our friends and they have never been our friends. They are, at best, a necessary evil.
Remember: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
We used to have highway men to rob you. Now we have a semi legal organization of what used to be police.
These folks particularly like butt exams.
Time for people to be shooting up the sky’s . 500 a drone sounds reasonable.
Never forget Alberta Martial Law 2013!
The taxpaying residents of High River agree with you.
More significant than the drone is the fact that they sent in a SWAT team over half a dozen cows! Now that’s police state tactics.
Indeed. The police are there “to protect and serve” the State. People need to quickly disabuse themselves of any notions to the contrary.
I’m also out of patience for the “it’s my job” defense from government apparatchiks in general. At some point ethics and morality should make one decide that it’s no longer “a job” worth doing.
Knight 99:
Can’t see any difference between the hated Liberals and my Conservatives on this issue.
Nobody has thrown more money at cops and their toys than the Conservatives.
And joining the American War on Drugs, at least matches the dumbest thing the Liberals have ever done.
Not one Conservative said boo when the Supreme Court ok’ed “your papers please” roadblocks anywhere, anytime,and lie about any old reason.
This Conservative Government cares about freedom and individuality like Justin Trudeau believes in Math and Reason.
Luckily, idiocy on either side has no consequences.
Fifteen years of Justin and Liberal rule.
Thanks Steve.
I remember driving through ND once, and getting a speeding ticket. The officer pulled me over at 105 km/h on a 55 road that only lead to Canada. As he stood by my window, he communicated with the cop in the Cessna who clocked my speed going down when I saw “their unit” (I had just passed a cop who had pulled over another hapless Canuck) and then speeding back up, like every normal human driving on straight road through that glacier-scoured wasteland.
Drones are just America 3.0 of that.