Stories like this are rare in the US, where
laws for the civilian use of drones have yet to be worked out.
Not exact matches
Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by
law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available
for sale or purchase
for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.
No
civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted
for use by our military and
law enforcement only.
Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of
civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange
for hostages and money
for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to
use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people
for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans
for declaring a form of martial
law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.
That team conducted research studies that enable safe and reliable deployment of unmanned aircraft systems
for civilian,
law enforcement, military and other
uses.
To my great disappointment, these friends disagreed with me and criticized Israel
for its disproportionate
use of force and the killing of
civilians, both war crimes according to international
law.
There do not seem to be any general restrictions on
civilian use of the card,
for example there seems to be no
law prohibiting a person from requesting a copy of the card and not actually submitting the information to CIDR.