Sponsor Of Legalizing Armed Drones In North Dakota Is Having Second Thoughts
Joe Wright
ActivistPost.com
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
The drone wars continue to heat up on both the global stage and at the domestic level.
North Dakota recently made international news as the first U.S. state to legalize weaponized drones for use on its own citizens. This concept previously sparked outrage when India – a supposedly constitutional republic – said they would begin applying non-lethal weapons to drones for crowd control.
Now, the very sponsor of the legislation that enables the potential use of weaponized drones on American soil claims he was hoodwinked by how this came to pass.
In a classic case of unintended consequences, the original sponsor, Republican state representative Rick Becker said he was unhappy with the way legislation turned out.
His original intention was to prevent law enforcement officials from using the unmanned aerial vehicles from conducting surveillance on private property without a warrant.
“In my opinion there should be a nice, red line: Drones should not be weaponised,” he said.
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