Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge.
And there’s ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war.
“The use of FPV drones in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the use of drones by terrorist groups such as ISIS, and the use of drones by violent criminal groups, such as drug cartels, give examples that domestic extremists may seek to emulate or learn from,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a professional analyst who has tracked far-right extremists of every ilk, for close to a decade.
“Groups or individuals could potentially use commercial or home-made drones for reconnaissance purposes or in an offensive capacity.”
I’m honestly more concerned about bio-weapons than explosives, considering the ease and availability of DIY gene editing in your kitchen. Not all NAZIs are stupid and evil. Some of them are smart and evil. How long until some loon manages to make, for example, an aerosol spread version of rabies and flies it over minority and/or liberal areas?
Yes, I read too much science fiction, but it seems to me that this scenario is 100% possible with our current technology.
I mean, any day now Bobby brain worms is going to come out of the cdc vault covered in every virus and disease they have to be the ultimate patient zero.
Well, he does like to go swimming in raw sewage with his grand-kids, full immersion too. He’s probably in the vaults now tasting everything to see if it’s the cause of autism.