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According to the Free Press, Homeland Security is dispatching a Predator Drone to watch USA/Canada border.
These are military air craft. They cost 10.5 Million dollars. They are a freaking weapons platform. And I know what you're thinking to yourselves, you're thinking that Zifferent has truly gone off the deep-end with his paranoid BS this time. But consider this, how many pilots flying Cessna's along the border constantly would 10.5 million buckaroos spend? Consider that the Predator drone's maintenance doesn't come cheap or at least not as cheap as a Cessna mechanic. Is it still a good idea?
I don't know, and I'm not even certain what they are looking for. A Canadian invasion? Seniors crossing the border for cheap pharmaceuticals? Yoopers smuggling contraband Molson and Sleeman into Michigan? Mexicans going the long way around?
Frankly, I can only see a few valid and yet not equally sane reasons for this kind of surveillance. (In order of decreasing sanity) One is the 'War on Drugs.' Another is the 'War on Terror.' And the other is to keep US citizens in the country. Ok maybe that last one one does reek of bat-shit, but after reading The Handmaid's Tale (great book btw) by Margaret Atwood (one of those rascally Canadians) it's hard to see these things and not scream "SEE!"
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