Via wnd.com:
Farah: ‘Spy drone’ buzzed my home
‘They will be at war, we will be hunted down’
by Chelsea Schilling
His private property was scouted by a drone that sounded “like a lawnmower buzzing over my head,” WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah revealed on the July 5 Alex Jones Show.
“I’m taking my dog for a walk and guess what I see right over the tree line right above my head is a drone,” he said. “I don’t live in the city, I don’t live in a populated area, I live in one of the most rural places you could possibly live in Northern Virginia and there could only be one thing that this drone was spying on and that would be me, that would be my property because there’s just nothing else around except woods and deer.”
Farah joked that the drone might have been spying on him because he qualifies as a “terrorist” in a new Department of Homeland Security report that defines “extreme right-wing” terrorists as Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty.”
“We’ve got our work cut out for us. More and more, I realize that the liberty lovers out there really have to stick together,” he urged. “Fundamentally, we’ve got to stick together, or we’re going to hang together, as our founders said.
“Look – this is the first term – if he’s re-elected it’s going to be war – they will be at war – we will be hunted down like dogs, keep that in mind, that’s what the stakes are,” warned Farah.
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This is not merely chilling, but downright terrifying when you consider the capabilities these drones provide the government, and I am not referring to just surveillance, either.
Joseph Farah is a private citizen, and as such has the exact same constitutional rights and protections all Americans have enjoyed for well over 200 years.
His startling revelation should have every conservative and libertarian in congress screaming from the rooftops, as what makes them so confident they themselves are exempt from the reach of Big Sis and her shiny new bin of toys?
I fear we have all but lost the America we all grew up in, as what we have now is no-longer recognizable to me.
-Dave
(h/t: my buddy Earl)
I propose a skeet shooting tournament.
I think they said stick together or hang separately, but in our case there may be mass hangings if they win. Stock up on ammo. We love a good fight.
Along with Charles Krauthammer, I’m waiting for that folk hero who’ll be the first to shoot down one of these drones.
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/first-american-to-shoot-down-a-drone-will-be-a-folk-hero/
Heck, I’ll chip in for a gold-plated trophy!
I’m in…
You can see the Trog Obamabots are following this post
Eowyn–I guarantee you that if one is spotted in these mountains where I live, the folks here WILL shoot it down!
I suppose we have to accept that new technology is going to be used, no matter what we think of it.
But the ONLY way they should be able to use it is with one OLD bit of technology: a Warrant.
Grouchy,they keep it up and I’ll bet they find one. Or should I say the other way around. LOL.
Napoleonitano, heehee…good one!
and for those who need a new hobby…
http://diydrones.com/
i’m waiting to see how long it will take for some geek to build one of these gadgets and go peeking in the windows at the white house.
(no, it won’t be me, i don’t have the skills, or desire. i’ll deal with him at the ballot box in november, and hopefully see him put out to pasture.)
While I appreciate your sentiments, the fact is that if voting changed anything, it would be made illegal. Stalin famously remarked that he cared not about voting, as long as he got to count the ballots. Thus our electronic voting machines, which effectively and invisibly now control the votes. So it goes.
Wow, I thought our “Lovely” Govenor skyrocketed us to be first on the drone us please list. Too bad Mary Fallin, guess you will have to think of something else to get another gold star from the MIC (Muslim in charge)
Reblogged this on Tea Party Train.
It’s usually dangerous to read into your opponent’s motives beyond the obvious, but here goes!
Jim Morrison said, “We’re all voyeurs. Not in any criminal or clinical sense, but insofar as we’re all staring into the lives of others.” The lead singer of The Doors was complaining of the level our culture had descended to.
You don’t have to care for WND or the views of Mr. Farah to understand that, for the government to send a drone to spy on him like this, they have descended to the level Morrison was talking about. If Joe Farah had been involved, or even been suspected of, any criminal activity, the Feds easily could have issued a warrant and raided his home. But no. They sent a drone to get a visual on him.
Which leads me to believe that the Feds—or whoever sent the drone—are getting desperate. Not legally desperate, for Mr. Farah had nothing he could be nailed on, but psychologically desperate: They descended to the level of the merely curious, which leads me to believe they want something Mr. Farah has that they don’t, namely a psychological state of recollection, of being at peace with oneself.
Orwell wrote of thoughtcrime, and this is an example of the subterranean world of the motives of men. When the State waxes curiously over the lives or the motives of men, especially without just cause or provocation, you can rest assured that they are getting desperate. There is a crack in their armor that, if we of the citizenry could only exploit, we could win our war with the State.
But, in the words of Scarlett O’Hara, “Tomorrow is another day.”: