Cool…

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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      And now the DEA’s got a chopper in the air,

      I wake up screamin’ like I’m back over there,

      I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’t you know?

      You better stay away from Copperhead Road.

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      Someone I know is a military pilot. The green lasers were especially rough, because the light would get spread through the entire cockpit getting split up by the windshield, and even worse when he was flying with nightvision.

      … do with this information what you will.

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      Federal offense and highly illegal. They take this extremely serious. Whatever target you were before, expect and multiple time increase in tracking doing this. They will make an example of you.

      Source. Local police chases and FAA raids/reporting. Do not do this. You’d be better off finding another method.

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        you know what else is illegal?

        • sending 500 Marines to quell a civil protest
        • deputizing police as ICE agents
        • yanking American citizens out of their homes because they aren’t white enough
        • sending Americans to a foreign prison system without trial

        I don’t give a flying fuck what they think is illegal anymore since none of them give a shit about the rule of law anymore.

        fuck em

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        Well there’s open source open hardware anti-air missiles.

        Also it sounds innocuous and green laser diodes cost 2$ so if everyone has them they won’t be able to single out anyone.

        Also when tghe copters are down, how are they going to track you? Drones, but that’s the real purpose of the laser CCDs fry much much easier than eyes.

        The surveillance state will not stop by beingpolitely ask but by being physically dismantled. The alternative is perpetual subjugation, the end of history, as far as you are concerned you become as useful and helpless as any other farm animal once this power becomes consolidated.

        Our democracy is fake because of first past the post, ranked choice is a red herring. Proportionnal representation or your children will live in work farms. Like every fight before, this is an existential crisis for your perpetual subjugation.

        They chose to make the sky a weapon, take the sky away from them.

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    What’s wrong is that officers of the law are allowed to lie like that, yet still want to be respected.

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          No, even in 1776, there were contemporaries who mocked a bunch of rich slave owners talking about freedom while stealing land from native americans. American freedom had always been the freedom for the ruling class to exploit the underclass.

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          correct, see for example the reactions to the US’s decision to invade and seize territory from Mexico, which was largely seen as a betrayal of liberal values that the country was supposedly founded on. Don’t worry, the US isn’t the only country to justify their revolution with promises of liberal ideals like freedom and equality only to expose their true priorities later (namely giving local colonial elites more power than those ruling monarchs in Europe). I recommend reading the chapter on Bolivarian revolutions from the history book Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America for more about the disappointments and failures of liberal revolutions to live up to their promises.

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          To ad to others that already commented:
          Brutal colonialism and imperialism, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines to name only a few.

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      Is it plausible this might cause the helicopter to crash somehow? I wouldn’t want to risk that.

      Edit: can’t believe people be downvoting this. Y’all have no idea how catastrophic a helicopter crash could be. But if you’re downvoting because you think the answer is obvious and I’m stupid, I respect that.

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        But they won’t have copters to track you down and green lasers take out CCDs like nothing else. If they wanted to fly they shouldn’t have weaponized the sky and flight.

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    Can you imagine 6 dudes with AR-15s, nothing fancy, responding that that threat? One wonders what might happen.

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        Even armored helicopters are very vulnerable, flying things cannot afford to be sturdy.

        Flying oppressors beware, you live on borrowed time. Tail section, fuel tank, tangling hazards (steel wire spool, fast unspooling from above)

        They made tge sky a weapon, take away the sky from everyone. Same with radios.

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    One wonders just how viable the Ukranian strategy would be to take out LAPD choppers (when landed, of course).

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        Sure, they can work with the Hong Kong protesters, Lamas, and Cuban patriots. Maybe some Free Syra Army guys can help too.