http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46499162/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T0rHqcz-Cc8
Excerpts from MSNBC 2/23 story:
After more than 40 years of development and extensive use by the military, the United States has set the date when the nation’s airspace will be open for drones.
Legislation passed by Congress last week gives the Federal Aviation Administration until Sept. 30, 2015, to open the nation’s skies to drones.
By May 2013, the next class of drones, those weighing less than 55 pounds, can fly the nation’s skies, according to provisions of the FAA bill passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama last week.
“Some of the privacy issues that we see with drones are very different than the sort of surveillance that can be conducted with a helicopter. Drones can quietly watch an entire town without refueling. It can conduct a pervasive and secret surveillance that helicopters cannot match,”
“You can’t avoid it if you’re outside unless you take cover. People don’t want to be on YouTube whenever they go outside,” he added.
This news story reminded me of a scripture, I think you’ll see why.
29 For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’[a] 31 For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?” Luke 23:29-31
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