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| An armed unmanned US drone aircraft being serviced. (photo: AP) |
29 October 11
eaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have
their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon's plan is to give them
their own state as well.
Under this plan, 7 million acres (or 11,000 square
miles) of land in the southeast corner of Colorado, and 60 million acres
of air space (or 94,000 square miles) over Colorado and New Mexico
would be given over to special forces testing and training in the use of
remote-controlled flying murder machines.
The full state of Colorado is
itself 104,000 square miles. Rhode Island is 1,000 square miles.
Virginia, where I live, is 43,000 square miles.
The US military (including Army, Navy, Air Force, and
Marines) is proceeding with this plan in violation of the public will,
new state legislation on private property rights, an exceptionally
strong federal court order, and a funding ban passed by the United
States Congress, and in the absence of any approved Environmental Impact
Statement. Public pressure has successfully put the law on the right
side of this issue, and the military is disregarding the law.
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