Big Brother Is Watching, Or .....There Is Flying Fascism on Your Doorstep

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Redux: Flying Fascism on Your Doorstep

 

By Al Martin - Al Martin Raw

 

~ Foreword ~

 

Every once in awhile, one of the 8600 columns archived at The

Federal Observer gains a new life of it's own as has this, which you

are about to read.

 

Originally published here on February 1, 2002, someone has

rediscovered this gem and it is now making it's way around the world

once more. Editor - 09.19.04.

 

New high-tech surveillance equipment revealed at the Redstone

Arsenal's Weekly Arms Bazaar promises a dismal future for

freedom-loving people of the world.

 

The Friendly Colonel has filed the latest report from the most recent

arms show at the Redstone Arsenal, which has been shut down and is

essentially used for storage. Housed in this facility are several

thousands of the new modified urban control Humvees, equipped with

14.5 mm cannons as well as many aerials and satellite dishes. Some are

camouflage in color, but most of them are dark matte gray. They looked

like they were painted with a sealer coat of paint (primer paint),

before the final coat is painted on depending on the theater of

operation in which they will be used.

 

Of greater significance was the introduction of the new DCHD (Domestic

Control Hover Drones), which were displayed and offered for sale.

They're about a meter in diameter and probably weigh about twenty

kilograms each. It looks like a life ring (life preserver) with a

motor in the middle of it.

 

The Chinese and Russian arms dealers were interested in them, and

evidently the British Government has been one of this device's primary

buyers. Evidently we're not selling them to a lot of foreign countries

at this time, but still building inventories for ourselves. Each of

these DCHDs costs $178,000 a copy.

 

He met with an Iranian colonel who is some sort of an engineer, who

was trying to explain to him what these things can do. The Friendly

Colonel admitted that he didn't even know such technology even existed.

 

Here are some specs. They can hover to a maximum ceiling of 500 feet,

although they're really meant to hover about 50 feet off the ground.

They not only hover, but they can go forward and back. Their maximum

speed is 50 miles an hour, and they can stay aloft for up to three

hours at a time.

 

There are counter-rotating rotors in the middle of the device with

what appears to be an engine on top. All of the internal components

appear to be made of some sort of super-advanced composite, like

boron-graphite composite material that is very, very light, but is

also very strong. The propellers are also made of this same material,

and they weigh practically nothing.

 

There are two counter-rotating propellers, two propellers that rotate

counter-synchronously, the way the Russians used to build turbo-prop

airplanes like the TU-95s. The reason they do it that way is because

it gives a much higher speed, lift and stability.

 

They're controlled electronically - either through satellites or

through what they call Fixed or Mobile Relay Command Centers, built

right into the Humvee. They showed how the two worked together.

 

The Friendly Colonel reports that inside this Humvee, which can

control a certain quad of these things, it looked like the inside of a

spaceship. The components and views screens, which appear to be

holographic, and the technology are simply amazing -- " It's like

nothing you ever saw. "

 

The surveillance drones come in different color schemes -- a very dark

black matte for night use or a two-tone matte white and sky blue top

-- so it's hard to see them during the day.

 

They started one of these hover drones up, and he said it virtually

makes no sound at all. Even if you're ten feet away, you couldn't hear

the thing. That's how quiet they are.

 

They are fitted with what is purported to be one of the most-advanced

micro-cameras ever invented by the US Government. Through satellites,

their transmission capability is virtually limitless. Satellites can

access its transmissions and give it directions, signals, codes, and

tell it what to do.

 

They can be pre-programmed for certain flight paths, but the computer

has the ability to think, so that if it acquires a target, it can

deviate from a flight path. It also has sensors so it can get out of

the way and not run into a tree or the side of a building. It also has

infrared cameras and high-resolution night cameras with multiple

neutral density filters.

 

They also have see-through capability -- with a thermal imaging sensor

camera, which can actually see inside of buildings and see through

walls. The device is meant to be used as a domestic control drone. It

not only has cameras, but the most sensitive audio receivers that have

ever been made. It can pick up a human conversation from five hundred

feet away -- one human conversation. Not only can they photograph and

relay still shots and real time video and transmit video, but they

also have a " non-lethal " weapons capability, some sort of stun gun

based on energy discharge technology. They're powered by what's known

as a fusion power cell, which looks like a square pack of film. The

power is produced through some sort of chemical reaction.

 

These drones can stop and detain people. Since they have a microphone,

they can hover right in your face, while you're looking into the

camera. It also has a transmitter, which can play pre-recorded

messages, or someone can actually talk to you even though they're a

thousand miles away.

 

During the demonstration, they hovered the thing around the room and

then it came down in front of this Air Force captain's face, and it

said, " Citizen, kindly present your national identification card. "

 

Then a little telescoping plate comes out of it, and you're supposed

to hold your national identification card in front of this plate. They

wouldn't reveal all of its abilities of the drone because some of it

was still classified. The manufacturer is the same company, located in

Indiana, which makes other equipment for the NSA.

 

Let's think about where this device could be used. How about South

Central Los Angeles street corners? Using these devices, only

Government-Authorized crack dealers would be able to sell their

product. Crack dealers, not approved by the Government, could then be

sanctioned -- or removed.

 

The exhibit hall had high-definition presentation screens around the

room, which showed how these things could be used. It showed them

moving down a darkened street at night, and then it showed what the

cameras were seeing, pictures of the people and how they looked

through an infra red camera and an ultra violet camera and how

different images looked through different camera receptors. It looked

like it was right out of Star Trek.

 

There was actually a computer generated voice simulator, which

announced, " Base price starts at just $178,543 for the Class IV

model. " Then it proceeded to announce the prices for all the options

and add-ons, which could bring the total price up to $350,000.

 

And who would be most interested in buying these items? As the

Friendly Colonel pointed out, as usual, there were a lot of Russian

and Chinese arms dealers there - but you never really know their

ultimate clients. And there were some military officers (they had

staff patches) who appeared to be from the Office of Homeland

Security, although they don't have military designation insignia yet.

 

These surveillance drones could be used in Small Town America -- to

cruise down the streets to seek out those who are potential threats to

the security of the State - those who are " disloyal, " those who are

" different, " and those who have already been deemed to be suspicious

by Neighborhood Watch Groups, following the new protocols and reported

to the newly created Civilian Defense Force.

 

At any rate, it was a very slick and very well done presentation. They

had the giant Australian prawns, lightly fried in a light batter and

served with an oriental plum sauce. The Friendly Colonel says they

were just out of this world -- and there was an open bar, of course.

He said there's nothing like having taxpayer-funded prime rib and shrimp.

 

Coming soon to your neighborhood - sci-fi fascism. People already

understand that this advanced technology exists, and the government

has not denied that they are using miniaturized fusion power cells.

The reason they're not making a big deal out of it is because people

would say, " let's replace the oil industry with fusion power. " And

that is something that even I understand could not be done - without

massive economic dislocation, of course.