{"id":16172,"date":"2012-10-09T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=16172"},"modified":"2012-10-09T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:33:33","slug":"homeland-security-to-use-small-drones-to-spy-on-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/homeland-security-to-use-small-drones-to-spy-on-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security to use small drones to spy on citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shepard Ambellas,\u00a0theintelhub.com<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n

<\/strong>With technology in overdrive, \u201cBig Brother\u201d has something in store for you and the rest of the American people.<\/p>\n

In the coming months the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to utilize smaller drones to spy on sporting events and other public events.<\/p>\n

These new drones will be durable, portable, and assemble on-the-fly within minutes giving DHS an upper hand in fighting terror (and simply spying on American citizens).<\/p>\n

Wired<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported;<\/p>\n

Like many in the military\u00a0experimenting with drone miniaturization<\/a>, DHS is thinking small. The drones it wants to bring to Fort Sill will ideally be launched by hand, like the Army and Marines\u2019\u00a0Raven<\/a>. They should weigh under 25 pounds.<\/p>\n

Assembly should take a matter of minutes, and training for their remote pilots and technician a matter of days. DHS isn\u2019t looking for drones that can loiter over an area for a long time: just 30 minutes to two hours, a hint that the department doesn\u2019t foresee drones becoming a primary surveillance tool.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement operations, search and rescue, and fire and hazardous material spill response\u201d are some of the potential drone missions the RAPS program envisions.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s something of a turnaround for DHS. Back in January 2011, Ruth Doherty, a DHS science & tech official, expressed skepticism about using drones to patrol for signs of terrorism or to protect big public events like the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

\u201cA case has to be made that they\u2019re economically feasible, not intrusive and acceptable to the public<\/a>,\u201d Doherty told Danger Room at a D.C. conference. In addition to the potential public outcry, drones have been a headache for DHS at times.<\/p>\n

A DHS ground station in 2010\u00a0lost communications<\/a>\u00a0with one of the first Predators it used to surveil the southern U.S. border, and the department has had trouble\u00a0finding enough pilots and technicians<\/a>\u00a0to operate its initial drone fleet.<\/p>\n

Police shops around the country have only\u00a0recently begun flying surveillance drones<\/a>, owing in part to cumbersome Federal Aviation Administration restrictions designed to prevent the robots from slamming into commercial passenger aircraft.<\/p>\n

That could be an issue for DHS as well. The RAPS drones need a threshold altitude of 1000 feet, well into helicopter territory \u2013 above the tops of most skyscrapers \u2013 and comparable to the heights reached by \u201cFlying Beer Keg<\/a>\u201d flown by the Miami-Dade police department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With most police department techies drooling over these gadgets, I\u2019m sure small spy drones will be on the rise.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0intelhub.com<\/a><\/em>\u00a0article points out;<\/p>\n

When you smack a fly and it hits against the wall, does it ping?<\/em><\/p>\n

Let the field tests begin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Field tests?\u2019 You say.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are now dealing with a new enemy in the surveillance class, something almost unfathomable to grasp the more you ponder\u00a0\u2013 something that will change the way you think and live.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you \u2018The Insect Drone\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The following tip was submitted via\u00a0tips@theintelhub.com<\/a><\/strong>;<\/p>\n

I\u00a0just read the tip report regarding\u00a0unmarked black helicopters posted attheintelhub.com<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and have witnessed\u00a0the same as\u00a0described in the report including the stated\u00a0timeline.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

CH-47 Chinook<\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n

I started seeing the black helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook<\/a><\/em>) last summer\u00a0as well\u00a0with\u00a0the most recent sighting\u00a0occurring January 8, 2012 (see attached photo).<\/p>\n

This one looked\u00a0similar to\u00a0the picture above (the only\u00a0difference being\u00a0it was\u00a0black in color and had no markings and at one point was flying fairly\u00a0low across the area).<\/p>\n

They have a different sound to them that is what drew everyone to step out, after seeing what it was\u00a0I ran inside to grab a camera couldn\u2019t find one so I grabbed my cell phone to take a picture,\u00a0it was headed southeast and\u00a0had flown away quite a distance by the time I made my way back outside. I included a cropped version of the original and added an arrow to indicate its location in the photo\u00a0(see photo below).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This has been happening frequently.<\/p>\n

In fact, they fly so low at times that\u00a0it\u00a0was possible to see\u00a0that the\u00a0pilots inside the chopper were\u00a0wearing\u00a0black military looking gear and what looked like\u00a0headsets\u00a0and dark glasses.<\/p>\n

However, black helicopters\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0the only\u00a0things flying around\u00a0lately there is\u00a0something else that\u00a0is so strange and\u00a0ominous.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0August 2010 I was sitting in my backyard when I\u00a0noticed a \u201cflock\u201d of\u00a0strange\u00a0looking large dragonfly fly over the privacy fence\u00a0from the north side of my property.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would approximate their number to\u00a0have been\u00a0around a\u00a0dozen as they approached the confines of my backyard, all but one scattered in different directions.<\/p>\n

I watched\u00a0the one that stayed as it\u00a0circled the parameter of my property twice\u00a0then I\u00a0lost\u00a0sight of it\u00a0when\u00a0suddenly it flew towards me.<\/p>\n

As I sat on the deck it started circling directly\u00a0over my head and it was at this point that I could hear a faint \u201cclicking\u201d sound emitting from this bug, it was\u00a0then that I stood up from my chair to get a better look at this thing\u00a0that was larger than any dragonfly I had ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Shepard Ambellas,\u00a0theintelhub.com\u00a0| With technology in overdrive, \u201cBig Brother\u201d has something in store for you and the rest of the American people. In the coming months the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to utilize smaller drones to spy on sporting events and other public events. These new drones will be durable, portable, and assemble on-the-fly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}