CIA officers say drones are doing more harm than good.Numerous innocent Pakistani and Afghan people have been the victims of America’s drone planes. The UN has called these drone attacks illegal.While the CIA claims that these highly precise drones are used only to target enemies, it is a well established fact a great number of innocent civilians have been killed as well; for instance the 23 Afghan civilians killed in February. One estimate suggests that "approximately 30 per cent of the total reported fatalities" have been civilians.
But while concern over the drone attacks is growing, there is actually people that want to bring these vehicles of murder into home skies. "The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions" in the US, reports the Associated Press.
This just opens a can of worms in my mind. Surely it will be easier to hijack / hack an unmanned plane and fly it into a building. There's even concern, raised by other people, that the controller and the plane may lose contact and the planes plummet into buildings. Then there is the trouble with these pilotless planes flying in busy airspace, creating possible collisions with other planes, weather balloons, and the like. Not to mention that these planes -- some so small that they can enter a building through an open window -- will most definitely be used as an extension of CCTV spying on people.
This will be just one more, of the already ridiculously many, steps towards America becoming an Orwellian state. Welcome to the land of the free.
