Drone Program Aims To 'Accelerate' Use Of Unmanned Aircraft By Police

[Solly Mack]

23. That's just it...they wouldn't come for everyone's phone/cars

just those the government (federal/state/local) labels 'bad'...and in that way people can feel good about it. It's easier to accept bad things happening to bad people. They become accustomed to it. I recall how one of the excuses for torture being OK was because it was being done to "bad" people. I know of people who think rape only happens to "bad girls". That everyone in prison is guilty or they wouldn't have been convicted. It's all the same kind of thinking - there is just no way they'll end up in that kind of situation because they are just so good and bad things never happen to good people.

If the list of 'bad' people expands and increases over time, people are less likely to notice...or care.

Technology will continue to produce more and more ways of collecting information - and privacy concerns, along with Constitutional concerns, will grow. There's no stopping it.

That said, our liberty and our rights outweigh those advances. Where there is the potential for abuse, one can say with almost 100% certainty that such things will be abused.

Sadly, it's going to take abuses for a lot of people to see the danger in just blindly trusting in authority to not abuse its power.

Even more sad is - even with all the evidence over the course of history of authority abusing its power, people still want to believe it can't happen. ('here' or to them)

I don't know what the answer is but I do believe it has to start with protecting our rights first, last, and always.