Sipsey Street Irregulars: Your tax dollars at work. DHS continues preps for civil war.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Your tax dollars at work. DHS continues preps for civil war.

DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.

The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department's unmanned Predator B drones, which are primarily used to patrol the United States' northern and southern borders but have been pressed into service on behalf of a growing number of law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Secret Service, the Texas Rangers, and local police.

Homeland Security's specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, say they "shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not," meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify "signals interception" technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones, and "direction finding" technology that can identify the locations of mobile devices or two-way radios.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained a partially redacted copy of Homeland Security's requirements for its drone fleet through the Freedom of Information Act and published it this week. CNET unearthed an unredacted copy of the requirements that provides additional information about the aircraft's surveillance capabilities.

4 comments:

WarriorClass III said...: General Atomics near San Diego, CA
1
General Atomics
3483 Dunhill St, San Diego, CA (858) 455-4142
Directions
2
General Atomics
6995 Flanders Dr, San Diego, CA (858) 526-8500
Directions
3
General Atomics
5660 Eastgate Dr # A, San Diego, CA (858) 642-9170
Directions
4
General Atomics
3550 General Atomics Ct, San Diego, CA (858) 455-3000
WebsiteDirections
5
General Atomics Aeronautical
13322 Evening Creek Dr N, San Diego, CA (858) 964-6700
WebsiteDirections
6
General Atomics Elctro Systs
4949 Greencraig Ln, San Diego, CA (858) 522-8360
WebsiteDirections
7
General Atomics Energy Products
4949 Greencraig Ln, San Diego, CA (858) 522-8400
Directions
8
General Atomics Aeronautical
14200 Kirkham Way, Poway, CA (858) 455-2810
WebsiteDirections
9
General Atomics Aeronautical
14115 Stowe Dr, Poway, CA (858) 312-2543
Directions
10
General Atomics Aeronautical
12889 Gregg Ct, Poway, CA (858) 455-4754
Directions
General Atomics near San Diego, CA
11
General Atomics Cafeteria
14170 Kirkham Way, Poway, CA
Directions

http://www.bing.com/local/getmap.ashx?w=300&h=250&ppl=55,1,32.9027746617794,-117.230113819242_55,2,32.9021873474121,-117.172378540039_55,3,32.8833618164063,-117.198013305664_55,4,32.8941748291254,-117.237630039454_55,5,32.9595680236816,-117.096008300781_55,6,32.8267784118652,-117.123901367188_55,7,32.8267784118652,-117.123901367188_55,8,32.936784401536,-117.021201252937_55,9,32.9374683648348,-117.029143944383_55,10,32.9371147155762,-117.048080444336&b=r,stl.h,mkt.en-us&dcl=0&logo=combined; March 3, 2013 at 7:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Cover and concealment, for one capability, and saturation for the other - imagine if every tree had a prepaid cellphone strapped to it - makes the signal to noise ratio quite unfavorable eh? :); March 3, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...: So we dig in at night with overhead cover,and stop useing cellphones.So what? They have to land the bitch some place for fuel. And how long will the drone "pilots" last off base?; March 3, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Anonymous said...: I say we ALL wear "glasses and nose" when we leave the house.
Or, better YET...a Bath-House Barry mask.; March 3, 2013 at 9:33 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Your tax dollars at work. DHS continues preps for civil war.

4 comments:

Blog Archive

Followers