Big brother just got his powers expanded. Since the Bush administration, top government officials like former Vice President Dick Cheney wanted the authority to utilize some of the same tools here at home used overseas to track and kill terrorists. Since the Obama admin moved in, drones armed with deadly hellfire missiles have become a key weapon in the U.S. military and and CIA arsenal. President Obama is so serious and pleased with the robotic planes that he's authorized the construction of secret drone bases all over the world giving him the ability to strike targets even quicker without the potential of loss of American life. Well it looks like we are about to get a little bit of that or something close to it here at home.
An article published Tuesday in the Los Angeles Times reveals that new drone planes could be coming domestically quite soon, as both law enforcement and the agricultural sector are seeing benefits in keeping an arsenal of unmanned planes ready to patrol the skies. For farmers, drones could bring a new method of pumping pesticides into fields of crops from above; for the cops, the aircraft could conduct surveillance over suspected criminals (think police chopper but remote controlled). The Times reports that utility companies see a benefit in drones as well, giving them a new set of eyes to monitor oil, gas and water pipelines.[RT]
