For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government's use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if -- had drones existed at the time -- King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom windows of Monticello. I suspect that Jefferson and his household would have trained their muskets on the drones and taken them down. I offer this historical anachronism as a hypothetical only, not as one who is urging the use of violence against the government.
Since he won't go past the hypothetical, I will:
I strongly urge anyone and everyone with the desire and wherewithal to do whatever it takes to make it impossible -- or at least hellaciously expensive -- to keep military or police drone aircraft in flight over any US city.
Given reports of e.g. Pakistani Taliban insurgents wiretapping drone video feeds, the Iranian military downing and capturing a drone without shooting it down, etc., I have to suspect that relatively simple (as such things go) solutions, utilizing off-the-shelf technology, are available and either already documented or awaiting discovery. I suspect Anonymous/LulzSec/AntiSec/whatever they're calling themselves lately can help out on the informational end.
Jam or spoof their signals. Lase or flare their optics. Heck, maybe even fly radio-controlled "toy" aircraft -- carrying payloads of black powder and ball-bearings, perhaps -- into them.
Whatever it takes.
This one should be a hard "do not cross or we will fuck you up" line.
Hmmm ... wait ... in my Zemanta "related articles" feed, I see that Napolitano himself has already said as much. Huzzah!
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