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Unmanned drones on border pure security theater

Here's another foolish, wasteful, big-brotherish idea brought to you by federal lawmakers and heartily, regrettably endorsed by the El Paso Times in a May 5 editorial uruging the feds to:Fast-track the paperwork and get drones up and scanning the Texas-Mexico border. It's a modern way to identify drug-smuggling operations.There seems to be total agreement that drones can be just as successful in providing high-resolution views of ground activities here as they are in Iraq and Afghanistan.The call here, with bipartisan political support, is for unarmed drones. The holdup is the Federal Aviation Administration, which requires a paperwork process before authorizing operation of unmanned aerial systems.Drones are now in operation over the Arizona-Mexico border, and to some extent along the New Mexico-Mexico border...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).