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Yesterday, Forbes ran a breaking story headlined, “Trump Suggests Government Should Shoot Down Unidentified Drones On East Coast.” After all, the new Trump brand is common sense. If people won’t claim their own drones, well, maybe it should be fair game.
Shoot them down seems to be the consensus among most New Jerseyans, who are frankly getting sick and tired of all the nightly drama. They can’t get a moment’s peace. Every ten minutes, right as the game starts getting interesting, it’s “Alfred! Get out here! There’s two more!” or “Get the camera again! There’s a new one shaped like a pineapple!”
Frustrated New Jersey husbands rankle under their wives’ withering criticism. “Well? Is that all you’re planning to do? Just stand there looking at them?”
Yesterday, Trump posted an official message on Truth Social, helpfully suggesting the government should either fess up and claim its drones (if they are drones) — otherwise, let’s just shoot the damned things down for being a public nuisance:
Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be
happening without our government's knowledge. I don't think so!
Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!! DJT
Floridians have been bragging that the drones are too scared to come down here, and there may be something to that, since the firearm-to-citizen ratio here is 11.3-to-1. But one can spare some sympathy for New Jersey husbands and harried local Mayors, who’ve probably received so many complaints they feel like the proverbial toad ‘neath the harrow.
Just as husbands in New Jersey were getting fired up enough to start firing wildly into the sky, news from the Sunshine State landed with a thud. After all, it was a Florida man who produced this sobering headline, right as the New Jersey mystery drone story really got off the ground this week. From Florida First Coast News, Wednesday:
Florida man who shot down Walmart drone ordered to pay $5,000 to chain
Police said there were children playing nearby at the time.
He was also arrested. They soaked him on that fine but it could have been worse. At least he’s not doing time. In some ways, five grand feels like a small price to pay. It’s a good bet Walmart won’t fly anymore drones over his house.
As a lawyer, ethically speaking, I cannot encourage anyone to commit crimes like shooting down mystery drones inside city limits. But I bet if someone did, well, GoFundMe.
Actually, I find the constant media coverage fascinating and in some ways, contrary to the most likely explanation that the flyers belong to one government agency or another. If the mystery drone swarms were related to military or intelligence, I’d expect less coverage.
On the other hand, I found something missing from all the drone coverage: interviews with drone experts. The stories quote resident witnesses, local officials, state officials, and federal officials. But I’d expect a lot more discussion from drone designers and manufacturers — who could probably add a lot to the discussion — but there is almost none. Radio silence.
Could corporate media’s disinterest in drone builders betray a fake-news “mystery drone” narrative? Think we’ll ever find out who owns the annoying devices?
I say these are holograms.
Nothing worse than a shot down hologram landing on your house.
Why doesn't the NJ State Police grab one or find operators around where they are flying?
Hell local PD could do it. It's not like every tiny township doesn't have 200 police officers writing tickets left and right. Maybe take a little break and go send them to where the drones are flying.
This whole thing is stupid.
Another variation on the scheme?
Because they can't? It takes special equipment to sniff out where the operators sit. If they are on the US soil, that is. The authorities need to contact Ukies and ask for knowledge/tech transfer. They now have anti-drone FPV drones. This is perfect for situations like that.
The theory I lean toward is the notion that “Joe Biden” (meaning the DC blob) is desperately seeking some way to obstruct or fend-off the January 20th inauguration of Mr. Trump. Because, well, to put it bluntly, a whole lot of blobistas are worried about going to jail when the likes of Kash Patel, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi-G, and Pam Bondi get their mitts on the levers of power and start opening up the files. They’ve got thirty-five days to. . . to do something! (Somebody, please do something!!!)
A reporter asked Trump what he thought about the New Jersey mystery drones. Trump said he thinks the government is lying:
"The government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where
they took off from; if it's garage, they can go right into that garage. They
know where it came from and where it went," Trump told reporters in his
most extensive comments to date on the topic.
"And for some reason, they don't want to comment. I think they'd be better
off saying what it is," he continued. "Our military knows, and our president
knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense."
... The much more interesting development is the clear consensus that nobody believes the government. Over and over, federal officials have downplayed the drones, trotting out the tired old UFO playbook and claiming people are just seeing commercial aircraft flying out of normal traffic routes, weather balloons decorated for Christmas, flocks of birds carrying landing lights, and other perfectly innocent explanations.
It’s you, not us.
But nobody, not the local police, the state officials, or even corporate media reporters, seems to believe the federal explanation. That signals a massive loss of trust in general, which is a big problem for government. Governments not trusted by the majority of their citizens don’t last.
We wondered what their false flag Trump delaying tactic was going to be, so now we know? Will they zap some gas stations with DEWs to get the martial law party going?
Drones weighting more than 0.55 lbs are already regulated and registered by FAA. If flown for hire they must have a transponder. If flown as a hobby, no transponder required (but most of newish ones already have it anyway). The hobby pilots are required to pass so-called TRUST cert exam (easy and costs something like $5), commercial must pass FAA Part 107 cert (kinda hard and almost $200). Both are required to post their lic# on the aircraft.
Can't go higher than 400 ft AGL (with few exceptions), can't go beyond line of sight and farther than 3 miles.
I don't see this angle, honestly: the shit is already regulated AF.
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...Eat your heart out, Orsen Welles!