Chopper alert
The Levy Project Blog suggests a move is afoot to put a "remote control" chopper in the sky over Dogtown and that the ACLU is poised to stop the surveillance bird before it lifts off. First I've heard of this, but I know the Levy Project boys mark the sparrow's fall on the North Shore and I tend to take them seriously.
You'd think the mayor has enough going on what with draining a fine wetland and passing out buckets of taxpayer subsidies to real estate developers who can afford to build strip centers without taxpayer help.
Here, from the Times of North Little Rock, is the story on the unmanned eyes in the sky that the cops want to buy. Message to Argenta: Better buy curtains.



Comments
Are they black???
Where is Dogtown?
Where is Levy?
Posted by: jazzy
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December 13, 2007 09:44 PM
My advice is for all residents of North Little Rock to go out in their front yard, strip naked and lay on the ground making snow-less angels. If the MFs want to watch you....let them watch you buck naked.
I never thought I was a very interesting person...but after being spied on in all conceivable ways these last miserable 7 years of the Bush reign....I am fully expecting an anal probe every time I go to the bathroom. I'm FK'ing sick of it!
Osama must be laughing his sandy ass off at us. Whatever 9-11 cost him, it was worth 10 thousand times the price. He's got everything he ever wanted and more and we keep giving him more. And everyday more shit leaks out that shows that there is a slight possibility that we just might be the Great Satan he accuses of being.
The Empire of America has no clothes, no morals, no ethics, no honesty, no decency, no brains, and no heart. At this rate, when the beheadings start at War Memorial, I'm going to cut in line so I can go first and avoid having to watch my wife and kids and friends meet the ax.
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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December 13, 2007 09:52 PM
It doesn't much matter jazzy if they are black, grey or razorback red.
Dogtown is the euphemism given to North Little Rock. Levy is a No.L.R. community
The point is that such crafts are for use by a POLICE STATE.
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Posted by: eLwood
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December 14, 2007 12:26 AM
Are all the people over at LPIM really boys? I think some of the girls might take offense at that.
ARK. BLOG: Good point. Make that boys and girls.
Posted by: Al B
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December 14, 2007 11:46 AM
I watched a hearing of the House Intel committee on cspan in Oct. they were all up in arms over a recent article in the WAPO which exposed a department of Homeland Security program scheduled to begin Nov. 1 '07. The program allowed DHS on down to local barney Fifes to use these tactics along with sattellite surveillance of all of us in our homes and business.. WIth out so much as a warrant. The technology available in these little planes is secret but all suggestions show it is very powerful. Nobody's behavior in their own home is private anymore.. All police now listen and watch without a warrant.. and to make things worse we cannot be told even when we ask if they have done it and or what they did with the data. The number of people now subject to blackmail from countless law enforcement officials is now 300 million. All of us.
The committee was upset I think because they were caught off guard, not because of the privacy issues. They seemed to be far more interested in assuring that the program continued.. so I assume it has and this blog post reveals the beginning. They are not lookijng at snow angels..they are looking through your home and business walls or roof.
This, to put it mildly, is an OUTRAGE!
Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR
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December 14, 2007 12:56 PM
With all of the air traffic around here (Adams field, LRAFB, Camp Robinson & NLR Municipal) the scary thing is not the spy element but the likely probability of a mid-air collision. These 35lb radio-controlled copper-choppers are unmanned, there is nobody on board to watch out for other aircraft in the area and due to their small size will be near invisible to pilots flying real airplanes carrying real passengers. How would you like to have a 35 pound speck in the sky come through your windshield at 120 knots? What would happen when one gets sucked into the engine of a SW 737 inbound to Adams field or a Bizjet carrying the Benny Hinn entourage or Stephens Inc. personnel returning from a business trip?
Posted by: MysteryShopper
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December 14, 2007 01:54 PM
Couldn't find the article in the NLR Weekly Wiper. Is this a spoof? Did the Homeland Security hack into the Times website and remove the expose? I got one of those remote control choppers from local electronics store but it only cost me $19. It doesn't have a camera but I dont think the camera option should have added more than $100 grand.
Posted by: Sanford
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December 14, 2007 08:19 PM