Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 24, 2012

For a decade, the Pentagon and the CIA have been using remote-piloted drones to conduct lethal operations overseas. The Obama administration has escalated this robotic aerial war and expanded it to include the summary execution of U.S. citizens designated as terrorists by presidential order.

Last year, two drones operated by the Department of Homeland Security were deployed to help a rural sheriff arrest several members of a North Dakota family involved in a dispute over wandering cattle. Several major municipal law enforcement departments have begun to use drones as surveillance vehicles. Most of this hardware is paid for through grants issued by the Department of Homeland Security.

The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 50 companies, eager for a share of this subsidized bounty, are developing 150 different models of remote-piloted drones. The Texas-based Vanguard Defense Industries offers the ShadowHawk drone. The company?s promotional literature boasts that the vehicle can ?provide complete surveillance of an area and engage suspects with buckshot, tear gas, grenades and less-lethal capabilities.? It can also be upgraded to serve as a fully realized weapons platform.

Obviously, we wouldn?t permit a foreign invader to deploy such weapons in our country. Why should we allow anyone to do so?

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