What is happening to America?
Valley Morning Star – by Raul Garcia
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Next time you look up in the sky at the beach it might not be a seagull that’s flying by.
Police have added two drones to the public safety department to help monitor the beach from the sky.
With the onslaught of spring breakers onto the Island throughout March, the department decided to incorporate new technology to keep an eye out on areas not normally reached easily.
More than 25,000 college students are expected to visit the Island during Spring Break.
The two drones that will watch are equipped with high-optical lenses with the ability to capture a clear view of the Island from above.
“It’s going to give us a bird’s eye view when we need it,” said Gary Ainsworth, the city of South Padre Island’s public information officer. “It’s a 4K camera, so it’s crystal clear.”
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“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”
Who’s to say what might be considered “wrong” next week?
The Bill of Rights used to be right, but now that’s wrong, too.
*** “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” ***
Whenever some idiot parrots that line, my reply is along the lines of:
“Yes, I do. I have to worry about the police/government doing something wrong.
“Do you think people who work for governments are automatically angels? Tens of millions of people who were murdered by their own governments in the 20th Century alone might disagree with you. That’s what happens when people blindly trust government with more power than necessary, as you are doing now.”
Personally, I’d refuse to go to any vacation spot that used these obnoxious and intrusive toys, and I’d encourage others to also look elsewhere.
What gets me isn’t so much the drones themselves, but the attitude of the pigs that everyone should be constantly watched, even when there’s no suspicion of a crime. It would be just as bad, if not worse, if the pigs were doing the same monitoring with a telescope from an elevated platform. (When a drone is flying around, you’ll usually notice it much more quickly than you’d detect someone off in the distance with a telescope.)
if we started watching them like they are watching us , the cops would freak out, and I bet we would be able to solve at least half the crimes in that given area .. because the guilty would be the badges were watching