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Remember the 4th Amendment? How does a remote controlled drone knock on your door and present a search warrant?

The answer is that it can’t.

In the name of security our government at the federal, state and local level, has launched another assault on oiur 4th Amendment rights by authorizing the use of military style drones to monitor the activities of civilians with no warrants and no due process of law. With penetrating scanning technology these drones can watch you and listen to your conversations through the walls of your house and even read your email remotely without you even being aware that you are under surveillance, all of this without any kind of Constitutionally required due process of law – no hearing, no charges, no search warrant. Under the PATRIOT Act that drone might as well be sitting in your living room or bedroom, invading every private aspect of your life.

Senator Rand Paul has introduced the Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act (S. 3287) which would require a legal warrant issued by a judge before drones were used for any purpose other than patrolling the borders or pursuing known terrorism suspects. It would keep drones from engaging in preemptive surveillance or broadly tasked data gathering missions as proposed in the PATRIOT Act. It would protect you and other law abiding citizens from being monitored by drones for nothing more than the convenience and curiosity of the NSA or local law enforcement.

Read more about the bill in The Hill and please use our convenient tool below to write your Senators today and ask them to join on as sponsors.

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect official positions of the RLC.

4 Comments to “Stop the Drones!”

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  1. Bob Green said:

    My letter has been sent. On this subject, I agree completely Dave. Let’s hope this message gets wide distribution, and that a lot of people take a few minutes to send a personal message to our Senators. BTW, Dave, what’s the daily bag limit on these drones? Heh, heh, heh!

  2. Gayle Macdonald said:

    Please stop the Drone program. It is illegal search of US citizens and is an open door for misuse at the minimum and marxist corupt behavior in the extreme. There is no good explanation for this program. Please take an active role in stopping and/preventing this Program

  3. Jennifer said:

    Stop the drones! We have a right to privacy and it is not the government’s job to micro-rule us! Do your job!

  4. Vince said:

    I sent my e-mails off using this tool to my two non-representative US Senators from Michigan. Thanks to Darrell J. for posting a link to this on Facebook. I added to the baseline note that I am also concerned that these unmanned drones pose a threat to safety of our existing aircraft. This additional concern has been raised by general aviation advocacy groups EAA and AOPA.