Early Saturday morning Falcon UAV was heading up to Lyons to complete a damage assessment mapping flight when we received a call from our Boulder EOC point of contact who notified us that FEMA had taken over operations and our request to fly drones was not only denied but more specifically we were told by FEMA that anyone flying drones would be arrested. Not being one to bow to federal bureaucrats we still went up to Lyons to do a site survey for how we can conduct a mission in the near future to provide an adequate damage assessment to this storm ravaged community.
While we were up there we noticed that Civil Air Patrol and private aircraft were authorized to fly over the small town tucked into the base of Rockies. Unfortunately due to the high terrain around Lyons and large turn radius of manned aircraft they were flying well out of a useful visual range and didn’t employ cameras or live video feed to support the recovery effort. Meanwhile we were grounded on the Lyons high school football field with two Falcons that could have mapped the entire town in less than 30 minutes with another few hours to process the data providing a near real time map of the entire town.
[…] We are very disappointed in FEMAs response to actively prevent the use of UAVs and drone technology when these services were offered for free and at a time when manned helicopters could be used for more critical missions such as evacuations and high mountain search and rescues in inaccessible communities.
Sure, you can understand why federal officials would be initially careful about what was happening, but Falcon UAV had already been working with local Boulder County officials to do this effort, and it was clear that what its drones were doing was helpful. Shutting it down with no explanation and threatening to arrest the operators just seems like FEMA shoving people around because it can.
Source: techdirt
preventing detailed evidence of their geo-engineered storm disasters. a lot of people blaming the haarp boogeyman for all these horrible storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. so theyre trying to crack down and prevent more from seeing that this truly is the case.
Falcon should consider selling the usable drones to a third party possibly to a foreign government under UN control and do the surveys via that world wide humanitarian agency. And Colorado’s governor needs to tell Fema to go punt.
This article and apparently FEMA did not mention what law the team from Falcon UAV allegedly violated and what authroity FEMA has to arrest them. Barack Obama & John Kerry are both threatening to launch a missile attack against Syria. Only wars of self defense or wars authorized by the UN Security Council are legal under international law. Also, the War Powers Act does not permit any president to attack another country without condition. The point here being that the entire government is running out of control and making irrational threats of illegal actions against other countries and law abiding American citizens.
Hmmm
What is that old saw about if you have nothing to hide then why are you trying so hard to hide it? Clearly like the Gulf Oil spill and numerous nuclear power plant “events” FEMA is hiding the truth to protect the guilty. This almost certainly includes corporations (oil and gas in particular) and of course the government itself.