Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg
The anti-surveillance state movement is gaining traction and following Charlottesville, Virginia becoming the first city to pass anti-drone legislation, the engaged citizenry of Seattle have now succeeded in killing their city’s own drone program earlier this month.
In a written response, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn wrote: “Today I spoke with Seattle Police Chief John Diaz and we agreed that it was time to end the unmanned aerial vehicle program so that SPD can focus its resources on public safety and the community building work that is the department’s priority. The vehicles will be returned to the vendor.”
Read the rest here.
You could fit 64 million BetaBatt Inc. micro-battery cells into a cubic millimeter. The oil industry use them to power micro-sensors that are pumped down oil wells. Oil is captured in porous rock, and these tiny gizmos have to flow freely through the rock. AND last 20 to 30 years!
Don’t worry about the gigantic drones, be more concerned about micro-quadcopters no bigger than a full stop/period dot of small print. One word of comfort, they are perfectly safe, even if you accidentally ingest them. They are little marvels of micro-technology. We live in a world where privacy no longer exists. Whoever thought terrorism was a good idea, BLAME THEM!
Haha. Good article posting. This quote is directly related to Stacy’s surveilance thread…
““Today I spoke with Seattle Police Chief John Diaz and we agreed that it was time to end the unmanned aerial vehicle program so that SPD can focus its resources on public safety and the community building work that is the department’s priority. The vehicles will be returned to the vendor.”
The highlighted part shows that even at the lower levels of the state they know that surveilance has nothing to do with public safety. This Mayor has just admitted it, i.e. if the drone initiative was not about public safety what the heck IS IT FOR THEN?
The otganizers of this movement will put on Obama’s kill list. 100% certainty about that.
Welcome to Nazi Germany. How is it you dont invite someone that could to us about Obama’s kill list of US citizens and his National Defense Authorization Act that allows the President to assasinate and exterminate ANY US citizen even on the US territory. No questions asked. No trial. Total freedom to kill ANYBODY. How degenerate can you be as democracy to tolerate this type of shit ! Americans are total assholes and so are we to go along with these fascists murderers pretending to defend us from ”terrorists”.
Way to go Seattle! Here is a novel idea?
No quorum of council or membership.
A majority vote is no less than 75% of its membership.
In every case.
Guess where I got this from?
Then they go full retard with this: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
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Iceland does not have the money to do this…
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Iceland Might Ban Internet Porn
http://gawker.com/5984883/iceland-might-ban-internet-porn
Iceland could (but probably won’t) become the first Western democracy to censor Internet porn. Halla Gunnarsdóttir, an adviser to the interior minister, explains the country’s anti-smut rationale to The Guardian:
“We are a progressive, liberal society when it comes to nudity, to sexual relations, so our approach is not anti-sex but anti-violence. This is about children and gender equality, not about limiting free speech…”
This is Iceland, after all. Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir is the first openly lesbian government head in the world. It’s already illegal to print and distribute porn within the country, and since 2010, strip clubs have been prohibited as well.
Research indicates that, on average, Icelanders first see online porn at age 11, including sexual content of an “increasingly violent” nature. In the U.S.—where the online porn industry makes nearly $3 billion annually—children can now enjoy access to RedTube from within the womb.
I’m telling ya’ll, Washington is a deep red state except for the cities on the west slope of the Cascades… and if you chart by precinct, many of them are far from being solid blue.
(‘Deep red’ because it’s my experience (in the ranch and farming areas) that they know rinos, neocons and ‘republican’ globalists really despise the Constitution and are convenient meat puppets for the banksters.)
— Michael Krieger —
Great name!!!
In time, some of those drones flying all over the US with their interesting armamament may well have crossed the Pacific or the Atlantic to “unload” in inconvenient places.
!!! What collective karma for ‘them Yanks’ to so frigg up the world for decades !!!
Cheers yall…
SLA-mdunk in Oz
There are cameras on every street corner. Who cares about drones when you’re being recorded anyway?
@Popo,
Because street cameras, so far, don’t have hard-points and don’t shoot and scoot like drones can.