Inventing while brown? Authorities caught wind of an inventor of Egyptian descent ground testing a drone at a Long Island airport and went off on a tangent investigating him as a potential terrorist.
WNBC:
Unmanned Drone On L.I. Sparks Terror Investigation
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In this case, police said there is no evidence any laws were broken as the drone was tested on the ground. Officials said if it had gone into the air without prior FAA approval, it could have been considered a crime.
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Nice rationalization of a wasted investigation!
There was no crime. Period.
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One investigator said the engineer, at best, had showed poor judgment in trying to do the project in a manner that raised so many alarms.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Last time I checked this was still a free country. How we as individual choose to do things is our business, not yours.
If the engineer had been a white guy from Peoria, I'll bet we never would have heard of this at all.
08-22-2008, 08:13 PM
Long Island, NY: Unmanned Drone On L.I. Sparks Terror Investigation
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