The “Eye in the Sky”

Another Government Serving of our favorite lunchmeat.

mike i spent a lot of time on the kc-97fand g in nh. and ga 100 air refueling sqdn. I have also been to wr5ight patterson spent a week there and did not see all of it. great job on the pics.

The internet is already moderated by Homeland Security and the FBI. They are reading blogs and posts on social networks.

I guess it was only a matter of time before drones would be spying on us...

What can I say? Many thanks to the rabid supporters of the "War" on terrorism?

And how good are we with scoped rifles??????

Then, in the news: "drone strikes have killed dozens of American civilians when a perpetrator was targeted in XXX-American city. Officials say that the strike was deemed necessary and the collateral deaths and damages are regrettable but unavoidable. The strike was necessary in order to insure blah, blah blah".

http://www.facebook.com/DroneCloud

Check this one out. The things they can do with drones... http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/drone-swarms-are-he...

I have been "told" that I was picked out of airport passenger lines post 9/11 because I WAS NOT a terrorist, but rather to test the methodology of facial recognition. This is by a long time law enforcement officer that probably doesn't go anywhere without his weapon. He "told" me just a few weeks ago what I had suspected since the 9/11 trip.

It was a wink and a smile that nearly 20 other people in the room never even noticed.

By the way, can any of you HEAR a hummingbird?

Do any of you think you could drop a hummingbird?

Neither can the bad guys.

So let's say I'm fishing MH reservoir and the wind is blowing from the northwest and there's a lot of traffic on the Sun Valley Highway and I'm hunkered down next to the old valve shack to get out of the wind. I've got my mp3 player crooning out "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers and remembering the summer days I used to catch 15 planted trout to drop off to disabled senior citizens for dinner.

IDFG sends a drone simply to see if there is anyone fishing.

ASSUMING I hear it coming, Do I shoot it down with my fishing pole? Do I reach for my .380 that someone STOLE the last time I was out there? Or should I run home to get the 870?

Oh wait, I'm 60 something and can't run any more.

Oh yeah, I forgot that DRONES are EVIL plots by Homeland Security.... so I would of course have HAD my 3" magnum 12 guage which only holds five shells to shoot down that swarm of nasty drones which is going to land me smack dab in the Elmore County jail, when all I wanted was a little solitude....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction

"Dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty, squalor, or oppression. Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way.

Dystopias usually extrapolate elements of contemporary society and are read by many as political warnings. Many purported utopias reveal a dystopian character by suppressing justice, freedom and happiness. Samuel Butler's Erewhon can be seen as a dystopia because of the way sick people are punished as criminals while thieves are cured in hospitals, which the inhabitants of Erewhon see as natural and right, i.e. utopian (as mocked in Voltaire's Candide). Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is a more subtle and more threatening dystopia because he projected into the year 2540 industrial and social changes he perceived in 1931, leading to a fascist hierarchy of society, industrially successful by exploiting a slave class conditioned and drugged to obey and enjoy their servitude. George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel about a coercive and impoverished totalitarian society, conditioning its population through propaganda rather than drugs. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale describes a future North America governed by strict religious rules which only the privileged dare defy."

Now then, each of the novels listed above were REQUIRED reading in one or more HIGH SCHOOL class I took in Mountain Home in 1965-1967.

One of the teachers was a known member of the John Birch Society. One of the other teachers was a decorated World War Two veteran.

BIG BROTHER is what I have been since June 16, 1951 when my little sister was born. BIG at 6'2 and somewhere around 225.

I have never conspired against her or the government, but I continue to believe that those who are REACTIVE as opposed to PROACTIVE are part of the PROBLEM, not part of the SOLUTION.

Voting is one necessary obligation. Notifying your elected officials of your DIS-SATISFACTION rather than preaching to the chior on blogs like this is preferable to loaded guns or slashing fishing poles.

BTW, I cannot concieve a hummingbird sized drone being detected by sight or sound flying at 500 feet AGL. I doubt that any garden hose could hit it to short it out. But a 60 power, night vision camera the size of a button, now that's interesting technology.

Zook my freind, it's called SOCIAL NETWORKING and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with political OR religious beliefs.

Social networking is a phenomenon of the WORLD's current generation. And they USE it CONSTANTLY, anytime, anywhere, anyplace that has wireless access.

And they use it to communicate in a language which changes from day to day. And they are open tor anything THEY find to be worthwhile.

There are TRILLIONS of TRILLIONS of little packets of X's and 0's (zero's not letter O's). moving AT near light speed each and every second in hundreds of thousands of little beams between earth and satellites....

The simple truth I FIND is that this may be the ultimate freedom