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Drug-Sniffing Drones Take Flight Over Bolivia
pigrabbitbear writes "Anti-drug squads are now using Brazilian spy drones to sniff out drug labs that dot Bolivia in increasing numbers. Felipe Caceras, Bolivia's top anti-drug official, claims that some 240 drug labs have been busted in Santa Cruz, an eastern lowlands state bordering Brazil, this month alone, all thanks to Brazil's drones."
would like to welcome our olfactory overlords!
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.
Of course, the USA could just DO THE RIGHT THING and legalise drugs and remove the profit from the drug cartel system, but then a bunch of congressmen won't get campaign funds to keep it all illegal.
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Seriously we are using drug sniffing drones?
The drones are more dangerous than the drugs in this situation!
Keith Richards strapped to a glider.
Done.
Is this the new way to fight crime or the new way to fill up the private prisons?
Drone manufacturers in bed with private prison owners in bed with law enforcement to create a militarized prison industrial complex?
I think drones and private prisons are worse than drugs an drug dealers. I support the drug dealers over the drone operators and private prisoner owners. What side are you on?
I hear pigs can smell truffles underground, some flying pigs should do much better than the drones.
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Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
They'd do what they did to Iraq: Take over the Andes mountains & Bolivia, Peru, Columbia (etc./et al - wherever coke comes from).
Do they WANT it STOPPED? Hell no!
Why not? Well - That'd put MILLIONS of "law enforcement personnel" (the strong-arm cronies of those in power) out of a job (stopping a large part of their "raison d'etre"). Instead you saw the CIA get caught importing dope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US ... wtf!
APK
P.S.=> People, face 1 fact, if you haven't already: We're in the GRIP OF THE BIGGEST CRIMINALS OF ALL TIME, as our governments (who are run by those with wealth & corporate bodies) & we HAVE BEEN, for roughly 65++ yrs. I figure!
See - I've lived nearly 50 yrs. now in this life, & what I am seeing almost daily the past 1/2 decade now is TRULY making me ASHAMED to be a human being (because 1/2 of what we hear & see is 3/4 bullshit - mere "masks" & twisted statements to further the agenda of those in power... Since the greatest FEAR OF THOSE IN POWER, is losing that power!)... apk
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How bad does it have to smell for flying drones to pick it up?
I had a temporary warehouse job where I worked with drug sniffing drones; generally a bunch of tedious mother&*@#*s.
I think he meant that most of the hard users will eventually overdose, as they likely would anyway.
They are looking for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid !
...there won't be any left over for the street. Problem solved.
Today Bolivia, tomorrow Los Angeles on the drug sniffing over your PERSONAL airspace.
OBTW Bolivians are Americans too. :)
I can't help but remember the towed methane sensors used by the US in Vietnam... "sniffing" for "charlie's farts" above the jungle...
Anti-drug squads are now using Brazilian spy drones to sniff out drug labs that dot Bolivia in increasing numbers
Brazillian?!? That's a lot of drones!!! That's like a thousand times a gazillion!
It's about time those countries that export the drugs to America are taking some initiative. I keep hearing about how America is losing the war on drugs, but the truth is, we are the only ones seriously invested in keep drugs a pharmaceutical, medical and well-regulated affair, whereas our population seriously demands street drugs that foreign countries are all too happy to supply. More and more areas in those countries' entire economies can be based on drug production, making the authorities there reluctant to end it. So the burden is left to America who can't really do shit about it other than stopping domestic trade of it (which isn't as big a problem as the importation of it).
Now before someone gets preachy and suggests we ought to legalize it, just be rational and put down the pipe/pills/straw or whatever it is you're into for a second. Those areas in foreign countries like Mexico where narcotic production and exportation have become the most significant economic contribution, the authorities there really do live and let live. It's legalized narco by policy if not even law. But drug related crime there has become toxic. The murder rates are staggering. Thus legalizing the drug has not been shown to diminish various related types of wrongs our government is mandated to address. I would rather have a hard time acquiring marijuana than adopt an unnecessary risk of violence and death as cartels battle it out on OUR streets.
In the U.S. legalizing the narco, if we want to keep gang related crimes down due to increased competetive opportunities, we would have to regulate the production, distribution, sales, and access to narco. Which would cost taxpayers (and I certainly DO NOT want to subsidize your heroin addiction) and would still leave plenty of room for underground, illicit narco trade, and I don't think it would feel a lot less oppressive or restrictive than it does now to the recreational user. It really does make the very most sense to control the substances like we've been doing.
And if other countries play their part we should give them incentives so their economies won't suffer as they begin to eradicate the drug problem. After all, if we have less drug addicts, it follows we have a better available work force, a better economy, and therefore better means to affect international trade. It would also be helpful if countries' authorities would "seed" narco with radio tagged chemicals (like AMerica often does with its marijuana - they sometimes sanction the growing and distribution of cannabis which have been secretly tagged, then when it is picked up again later down the line, they can identify its place of origin and hopefully understand how it was moved and whatever other helpful statistics can be learned by this method.) Then they could notify us about trade routes and we could learn about cartel connections, quality control of the narc on the street (some sets cut it with this, some with that, etc.). We could develop a lot of intel this way and feed that back to the foreign countries who could take down entire organizations without much effort.
*shrugs* I know it's a long rant and unusual for slashdot but I had an energy drink at work that hasn't worn off yet. DOn't worry I'm not flaming, flamebaiting, or trolling.
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Time for some anti-drone rockets...
Drug drones discover the smell of coca leaves is present in all of bolivia.
The first image that popped into my head was a German Shepherd with aviator glases in a Predator drone painted like the Red Baron's plane, flying over the jungle and barking into a radio when it smelled some pot. Then I thought, "why not just make a flying Rat Thing with the nose intact?"
I should really patent this idea so I can sue the first company who actually makes one!
- "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
That's the comeback for any over-exciting conservative who thinks this is a great idea and should be done immediately in American skies without a warrant.
Just say the magic words: "EPA Pollution Enforcement Drones" and watch the conservative's eyes bulge before they suddenly re-discover due process and civil rights in a hurry.