Droning On

INTRODUCING AMERICA'S LATEST FAD: drones. that's right, American's by the million are falling in love with remotely controlled flying robots. How terribly unsurprising, in a country where hula hoops and pet rocks made it big. Drones are not just top secret for the military and the military industrial complex anymore. The free market is speaking, loud and clear, and the American people, as usual, will get what they want. It is rumored that the skies over New York City are a non stop free for all shooting match of drones everywhere, already. Pizza deliveries, peeping Toms, police surveillance.....how many applications are there? As many as there are people remote control-ingly flying drones? Five'll get ya ten that within two years a debate will be raging over whether to outlaw the damned things, at least throughout the general population. the military will never give them up, we know that, nor will America's innumerable spy agencies and police departments. Its also hard to imagine corporate America going down without a fight; after all, it never does, and seldom does it go down at all. Seemingly, those in greatest danger of losing their drone privileges are John and Jane Q public, your ordinary civilian citizens, and their teen age children. Which might, if you really think abut it, be for the best, ultimately. I fear for my country when I think of drones in the hands of tens of millions of ordinary American citizens, and when I reflect that God is just, to paraphrase Jefferson. Good heavens, can you imagine our inner cities? Would they become perpetual aerial battlegrounds, just as they are on the ground? The best advice is to start paying considerably more attention to the skies over America, and knock on wood.