Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies

bprime writes "The BBC reports that officials in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, have bought three airship UAVs to keep tabs on the local populace. From the article: 'The 15 metre (49 foot) long air ships are emblazoned with government slogans. Written in bright red are the words, We watch over you for your security.' They're not exactly black helicopters, but how long do you think until we see similar measures in high-crime American cities?"

Comments

Already happening in the U.S.

[SpaceLifeForm]

There have been reports of this already,
and I'm fairly certain that the domestic airlines
have already been outfitted with underbelly cameras
for that purpose. If you are near a major airport,
watch the patterns of the planes when they arrive
for landing. I believe that you will observe that
successive planes do not follow the same flight path,
but actually have slightly overlapping flight paths,
even when they are all going to land on the same runway.

Re:Damn!

[IgnoramusMaximus]

No, it only counts when it's real democracy and not a dog and pony show

I take it then that you are including most of the Western "democracies" in the "dog and pony show" category as their systems are equally or more broken then that of Venezuela.

1984

[Nom du Keyboard]

I see that 1984 is alive and well in Venezuela. Next we'll remove your right to vote, because going to the polls is both dangerous, and unnecessary. We know what you want. We know what you need. And we're about to give you everything you deserve for electing us in the first place.