Fargo will no longer be famous just for its wood chippers. I was surprised to learn this morning that a Predator drone was in use in the US not just to survey borders but also by civil authorities against American citizens in a situation reminiscent of Ruby Ridge and Waco.
"A $154 million dollar MQ-9 Predator B drone was brought in from Grand Forks Air Force Base" where authorities wanted to know what was going on at the Brosart farm in North Dakota after a Nelson County sheriff checking up on six cows that had apparently strayed onto the ranch was confronted by two armed Brosart siblings.
I knew that their use overseas had been globalized by the Obama administration after the groundwork was laid for their use by predecessors going back to the nineties in Serbia and expanded in covert actions from the Philippines to Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Afghanistan.