Bypassing Posse Comitatus

[Gonz]

Civilian use of military equipment in the US. Would that violate the Posse Comitatus Act? Someting, short of armed military, is needed along our southern borders & this may be just the key. Hope it works & isn't misused.

Drones Tested to Patrol US-Mexico Border
Reuters Friday, October 10, 2003; 1:34 PM

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States is testing pilotless drone aircraft, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the U.S.-Mexico border where they might be deployed to detect drug traffickers and illegal immigrants, a government spokesman said on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security is conducting tests of the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, in remote areas of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Mario Villarreal, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, told Reuters.

They are being deployed from Fort Huachuca and Gila Bend, Arizona, for test flights in remote areas of the desert that have become well-known corridors for narcotics trafficking and immigrant smuggling.

Drone aircraft were used for aerial photography and spy missions during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Washington Post

 

[Squiggy]

Civilian use of military equipment in the US. Would that violate the Posse Comitatus Act? Someting, short of armed military, is needed along our southern borders & this may be just the key. Hope it works & isn't misused.



Washington Post

rather unneccessary when they could use a string of inexpensive tethered weather ballons equipped with IR.

 

[Professur]

rather unneccessary when they could use a string of inexpensive tethered weather ballons equipped with IR.

Now, Squiggy, get serious. You have to look at their markup. Given that they get to buy a $10 hammer for $7000. And a $15 toilet seat for $25,000. They can only get $10,000 for a $150 dollar weather ballon. But they've managed to wheedle millions for a $350 RC airplane.

You have to pay attention to lining your pockets in this business. After all, you've only got 4 years to make a lifetimes worth of money.

 

[dragonstar]

regarding all the shit you just wrote....
that's nice.
one in five people don't tie their shoelaces correctly. the correct way is, of course, the way i tie them.
and an even more staggering result....two in three people pick their nose with their pinky fingers when stuck in a traffic jam listening to morning radio, these very same people eat with their mouth shut. as we speak, or rather, as i dictate, the caterpillar is eating the leaf...was it five holes or two? i cant remember how many holes the caterpillar ate!
so what the fuck are we all complaining about?

 

[chcr]

You have to pay attention to lining your pockets in this business. After all, you've only got 4 years to make a lifetimes worth of money.

Why aren't you in American politics, Prof? You have such a clear understanding of how it works.

 

[ris]

imagine the markup on the next fad in pilotless drones - from the ground laser powering. they should stick the things on ebay...