The SF-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a libertarian-oriented group that defends civil liberties in cyberspace recently published information they obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration as a result of their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Here is the EFF's article about it:
And here is the FAA's nationwide list of drone permit applicants as published on the EFF's website:
https://www.eff.org/document/2012-faa-list-drone-applicants
The use of drones within the United States is a troubling new front in the U.S. government's war on civil liberties that we as Libertarians should strongly oppose and try to nip in the bud. Is an institution in your community seeking to obtain and use drone aircraft? At the local level in San Francisco, I inquired about this with a member of the SF Board of Supervisors -- who I am pleased to report is introducing, as a result of a request by our own LPSF chair Aubrey Freedman, a resolution opposing the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act!
For those who may be interested in trying to get anti-NDAA resolutions adopted by politicians where you live, I have included our correspondence below, including the language Aubrey submitted for consideration. Note that the resolution as introduced by David Chiu (attached as an MS Word document) differs in various ways from what Aubrey submitted (I think it's actually improved in some respects, not quite as good in others).
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
On Feb 13, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Starchild wrote [to San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu]: