Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 10, 2007

During a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s, the U.S. Military unveiled a remarkable new unmanned aircraft called the Predator. Its mission was to locate Serb artillery units and target them for laser-guided bombs.

Beginning in 2002, a version of the same drone was outfitted with lethal Hellfire missiles and used by the CIA to conduct airstrikes against various suspected al-Qaeda leaders. By 2005, the Predator had become part of the arsenal of the Department of Homeland Security, particularly for surveillance missions along the southern border.

According to the Sacramento Bee, ?a wave of law enforcement agencies across the country [are] hoping to use ... aerial drones similar to those used by the military.? Thus the same unmanned aerial vehicles developed for battlefield use and remote CIA assassinations will soon be deployed in the skies of American cities. This cannot possibly be a good idea.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.