Dronepocolypse, Or, The Reason I Surrendered More Liberty To The State
Channel: The iState Channel
Date: 10/08/2017

They Can Take Our Drones, But They Can't Take Our....Wait, Take Our Freedom Too
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Benjamin Franklin

Aggressive force is like water.  It travels the path of least resistance.  The less resistance aggressive force faces, the greater the tendency of aggressive force to rush in.  The government, the state, the coercive enterprise, applies aggressive force often to influence the action of others, even influencing the action of others who have done no harm to anyone else.

A friend of mine, one who identifies himself as being in the Libertarian range of political views, recently shared a link to a story about an “Isis Fanatic” that had planned on using a drone to crash into a US Air Force plane.

Turkish police arrested Renad Bakiev, a Russian national, and self-identified (according to Turkish Police) ISIS member, right before he was about to use a drone to



attack a US Jet coming out of Incirlik Air Force Base.

According to the Turkish Independent News Agency, Dogan, Turkish police made the decision to arrest Bakiev after surveillance showed him apparently scouting the area around the base in preparation for his attack.  He also planned drone assaults against a nearby community of people called Alevis, whom ISIS has identified as heretics.

The story itself brought up some concerns by my friend about the current state of affairs of US law regarding drones.  My friend stated, in regard to this story, “This is a bigger problem that we realize. Incredible drone technology products are now sold virtually everywhere to anyone, are inexpensive and only going lower in price with better features. HD camera's to record, spy, track and able to deliver weapons and bombs. They should be BANNED and not available past a certain technology threshold to the public and limited to use on personal property only.”

I’m not picking on my friend.  But his response to drones and the potential threats they represent is not unique.  It’s a sentiment I have seen from a number of people, a sentiment that seems to cross the boundaries from the progressive side of the American political spectrum to the Libertarian side of the American political spectrum.

I have no doubt, knowing my friend as I do, that he believes he is taking a pragmatic approach to a problem within the framework of the reality of power around him.  He is weighing out the need for security with the need for individual liberty.  And here, he is deciding that security needs are more pressing than liberty needs.

One of the sources of his frustration lies in the fact that the FAA will not “allow” you to shoot down a drone if you feel that drone is threatening you, even if you know for a fact that drone is being used to film you on your property.
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