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North Dakota Nothing says police state quite like unmanned aerial vehicles patrolling the sky ready to deploy 80,000 volts to the nearest protester or dose entire crowds with chemical weapons.
The idea of weaponized drones has long been a dystopian, yet fictional idea. However, thanks to House Bill 1328, in North Dakota, this police state hell from above is now a horrid reality.
Thanks to a police union lobbyist, the idea of police using drones for less than lethal weapons is now written into North Dakota law.
According to the Daily Beast,
The bills stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of Rep. Rick Beckers bill would have banned all weapons on police drones.
Then Bruce Burkett of North Dakota Peace Officers Association was allowed by the state house committee to amend HB 1328 and limit the prohibition only to lethal weapons. Less than lethal weapons like rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers are therefore permitted on police drones.
The term less than lethal is thrown around to make tasers, which have been responsible for hundreds of deaths since 2001, seem like they are okay to be deployed on infants.
The reality is that less than lethal weapons are only slightly less lethal than the real thing. Now that these weapons will be put on drones, entire new safety concerns arise, such as accuracy and the simple issue of a drone falling into a crowd.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/longer-conspiracy-theory-state-legalizes-weaponized-drones-cops/#e18GGy497BX4xLrA.99
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Anti-Skynet guerrillas, take note: Snake River Shooting Products of Emmett, Idaho is now shipping a shotgun shell its marketing as a special Drone Munition.
According to a press release on AmmoLand.com, the rounds are a 12 gauge 3? shot shell solution aimed at defending against drone-based privacy concerns and terror! The shells will be available in a #2 shot and BB variety via LuckyGunner.com, with a number of distributors forthcoming.
http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/08/18/idaho-company-offering-anti-drone-shotgun-shells/
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Any net with a weighted edge would be pretty effective.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)That's why shooting at them's no good. Copdrone would eye the shooter before being taken down and those reviewing the video later could follow up.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)In this near-future story, areas are set aside as anarchy zones. Police use a special kind of remote surveillance drone to ensure that there is no physical violence, but are otherwise uninvolved.
Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots against blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each a television eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters, they were there to enforce the law of the Park...
Within King's Free Park was an orderly approximation of anarchy. People were searched at the entrances. There were no weapons inside. The copseyes, floating overhead and out of reach were the next best thing to no law at all.
There was only one law to enforce. All acts of attempted violence carried the same penalty for attacker and victim. Let anyone raise his hand against his neighbor, and one of the golden basketballs would stun them both.
They would wake separately, with copseyes watching. It was usually enough. No violence.
From Cloak of Anarchy, by Larry Niven.
Published by Analog in 1972
Additional resources -
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=309
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)It was one of the stories in All The Myriad Ways.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)We must resist before Skynet rises up.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I've never had much inclination to own a shotgun before, but I may have to reconsider that.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)with silly-string?
Logical
(22,457 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)if designed by a human it can be reverse designed ,hacked and used for spare parts for the next device .etc...etc...etc.....some day the only way to make a living will be making a killing .