If you were to ask the question, why is a drone the size of a car flying over New Jersey? You might think someone in the government might know.
Alas, this is the era of the “deep state” (from Russian collusion New coronavirus laboratory leak (on Hunter Biden’s laptop), the Fed is either lying or incompetent. If this is a high-tech reenactment of China’s balloon debacle, you have to wonder what Xi Jinping has in mind for the Biden family.
Well, that’s not true.
Either way, drone sightings have spread throughout the Northeast, near sensitive areas, and even led to temporary closures of facilities. local airport — Still, federal officials insist there is no security threat. But how would we know that unless they installed it?
By the way, this is one of the so-called conspiracy theories that the Fed is looking for something nefarious that it doesn’t want the public to know about. The bottom line is that no one is being told what’s going on, but a growing number of people know exactly what they want to do about it.
Shoot the damn thing down.
Predictably, enthusiastic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (who said,No public safety risk,”) quickly reminded voters no authority Shoot down an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).
Indeed, shooting at aircraft within the National Airspace System (NAS) is illegal under federal law. If we’re talking about protecting the lives of those involved in military, commercial, and personal air traffic, there’s a good reason for that.
However, as we are witnessing, centralization of power has its limits. This is especially true when it interferes with the performance of national civil servants’ duties. Relying on Washington bureaucrats to handle local emergencies remains a fool’s errand.
The main obstacles to giving local governments more freedom are the largest and most powerful commercial (and hobbyist) interests. Amazon and google I wasn’t shy about bending over. their lobbying activities muscular support for The federal government’s preemption of state laws could potentially interfere with delivery drones constantly flying over your home on their way to your neighbor’s home.
Privacy violations can be even worse. Imagine your perverted neighbor with a camera-equipped drone hovering outside your bathroom window.
So who should I call? The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), of course. they will contact you soon.
Beyond bureaucratic inertia, homeowners are left to count on the FAA, which fast-tracked Alphabet’s Wing Aviation. drone Delivery of consumer goods?It was 2019, about a year and a half After I introduced of Drone Innovation Act Prevents the Fed from authorizing UAS domestically “Reaching directly onto someone’s property without the owner’s permission.
Although navigable airspace above 400 feet remained in Washington’s hands, the law extended the traditional “police powers” of state and local governments to protect common-law rights to privacy from air interference and trespass. It was approved to do so.
Not surprisingly, special interest groups mobilized forces to try to block the bill. reasonable limits Preemption of state and local laws by federal law is particularly prevalent in areas “impacting commercial UAS operators.”
Jeff Bezos must be smiling somewhere right now.
Former Rep. Jason Lewis (R-Minnesota) wrote: Jason Lewis.Substack.com He is the author of Party Animal, The Truth About President Trump, Power Politics & the Partisan Press, now available in paperback.
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