They were always sacrificial pawns. The administration has been salivating over one of them getting killed so that they can invoke Artical 2 and call for martial law.

Based on previous non GOP administrations I doubt that ICE or the current administration will see meaningful prosecution.

The system needs to break down completely so we can rebuild if we want something like that.

Huh... Sounds like the National Socialist German Workers' Party Right before the Nuremberg trials.

The administration would just love to find some american of chinese extraction to accuse of spying. It doesn't matter if it's demonstrably false, look at Pretti and Good. We had irrefutable evidence and they still called them terrorists, and never admitted they were wrong, even as they backed down for the time being. They didn't charge the agents that murdered them in bad faith either, as the States didn't either abdicating their duty and surrendering the 10th amendment, but that's another story.

The administration doesn't care how demonstrably false the accusation is, their segment of the population believes them, or pretends to, and it includes most of the judges and prosecutors. Last term we saw a bunch of bad faith prosecutions as I recall of academics. Spying by China does happen, but a lot of these weren't that, the administration, and the party, doesn't care about truth or justice, they will use and abuse anyone, they believe in nothing.

It should work both ways donnit?

That's easy to say, but that information is not super easy to come by, in my experience. Someone has to build that shit, even if it is "simple." It's still expensive and there's a huge learning curve most of us haven't even touched.

But I agree with you.

The government has a shitload of them all ready to roll out. The NJ thing in 2024 was a test project, that was clearly homeland security fuckery given the US denied knowledge but also insisted they weren't a threat. SUV sized drones with flashing lights and whatever else.

We need to think about defenses against drones. Perhaps kamikazee drones, with thermite ramming heads even. It's an uphill battle but the sooner we think about it, the more we will be able to protect ourselves when the social order breaks down. Although I would advise biding your time until that happens and not giving yourselves away during the reign of terror that will precede the social collapse.

Yeah that pretty much sums it up right there...

Maybe it was already o the US on that before Dec 22, new ones could be hard to import into the US.

It applies to UASs, which applies to aircraft’s. Aircraft’s are quite broad by legal definition I think…

Can we spam register foam gliders as drones?

Consumer drones don't have a very large payload.

Also, carrying anything that's on fire would probably ruin the drone pretty quickly.