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Comment Re:But they only snoop on terrorists (Score 1) 254

I remember as a kid reading about the FBI and them wanting the RICO act...they swore it would only be used against organized crime...of course, over time, it slowly got applied to drug kingpins...then drug dealers...to the point that RICO is now applied to anything and everything they can get away with because of all the generous powers it gives to the FBI. You see the same thing happening here all over again...

Comment Re:I'm sure they're (Score 1) 608

Then it may surprise you to learn that during WWII there were unmanned B-17 bombers filled with explosives flown via remote control from other bombers which were intended to fly into their large value targets... As I recall, they tried it a couple of times and from what I remember didn't have a whole lot of success so I would not dismiss the idea out of hand...

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