Tuesday, April 9, 2013

PETA and Drones

The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA has called for the deployment of drones to catch hunters, article. While their intentions may be good, how far are they willing to go to catch the "hunters" in question? If they can't be found through normal means, would they invade my home to find these "hunters" or so they're calling them? At this point when is being a vigilante (those that don't work for law enforcement but do the dirty work to hand-over the perpetrator) legal? It's called obstruction of justice if it's at all logical, but what am I saying, why would it be logical? This is all entirely subjective, but there are multiple solutions. Developing some sort of paperwork to explicitly state what they can and cannot do with the drones, given there are very steep measures when they are violated. Strictly prohibit the use of drones within residential air space and/or the movement in or around those areas.

PETA has long been an advocate of the free animal and the good treatment of those animals wild or domesticated. They've become quite a large animal themselves, their many advertisements, political activists and high paid celebrity campaigns. I've always been keen on their activities and positive on their outcomes, but as of late they seem to hold the animals higher than their contributors and sponsors. What would we do without PETA? We have the Humane Societies throughout the globe and they take a much lesser aggressive approach to animal cruelty. If PETA really wanted to reverse the cruelty paid to animals, they need to educate people not belittle them and hold protests against law, it's heartless and irrelevant. How do they not know this already?

PETA fights a completely different battle like most organizations we apply bandages to stop the bleeding instead of mending the wound. The root of the problem is not the government or whatever organization conspires to animal cruelty, it's their mentality toward livestock and animals alike. How the drones are going to solve this only PETA could know, but whatever spin they plan to put on it is only going to anger PETA followers with a free mind, like myself.

On that same note, drones are popping up all over the place in different states and unlikely cities. Law enforcement is finding their decreased prices and increased investigative capacity to be quite enticing during these "troubling" times. Apparently, according to their own reports, there is more crime than there has ever been, it's just plain lies. They want to deploy drones to catch kidnappers in particular, while I applaud them, I'm also disgusted. If there are no leads, will they spy on every home in the city until the person is found? There are already street cameras everywhere, GPS on every device and satellite shots of my home, now you want maneuverability to watch inside my home? When will it stop? Never, but I will say this, they went through the proper means to procure and operate the drones, all while knowing that it would soon be public knowledge.

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