It's a sad day in America. The US Navy launched the first carrier-based drone off its deck the other day, off the coast of Virginia. It's an even sadder day for us in San Diego, as the drone was manufactured - in part, at least - by plants and engineers right here in our own city.
The launching of the drone off that deck demonstrates clearly that as drones become more and more integrated into becoming the armament of the nation's military, they are becoming more and more accepted - here domestically, back in the good ol' US of A.
And as drones become more and more prevalently utilized, not just by our armed forces overseas, but by law enforcement, border patrol, and local police departments here within our very own borders, American citizens are more and more subjected to a high-tech surveillance that is quite unlike anything we've known in the past - a surveillance that is becoming so pervasive, that it challenges our basic civil rights, freedoms and privacies.
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