Bloomberg: “Security” drones over NYC are scary but inevitable

Bloomberg: “Security” drones over NYC are scary but inevitable. Idiot busybody politicians are more scary and the latter is what gives us the former. Please Santa, all we want for Christmas is to stop giving power to people like him.

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  • I can see a drone being used for hot pursuit of a criminal, in much the role of the helicopter. But this is going way over the top, this is totalitarianism.

  • Just more nanny from the nanny man. There is not a single reason to have drones over US Cities unless that city is under some type of attack.

  • You can't keep ocean tides from coming in, but you can keep political tides from overtaking... it's a process called elections and when those become a sham, and that is fast becoming the truth, then overtaking becomes a revolution.

    • Interesting turn of phrase. Reminds me of the one "When the winds of change blow, the wise man builds windmills." Now WHO was it who said that . . . ?