Helicopter ID

[TomK]

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1 Green Harvest
A. The overflights aren't really that frequent or annoying and their benefit
of erradicating illegal grows far outweighs the small annoyance caused by the
overflights. Those leading the outcry against them are mostly growers,
wannabe growers and pot smoking sympathizers with an underlying, unsavory
vested interest in stopping them.

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B. The overflights are truly annoying and oppressive, but the PD, the DEA and
the County government in general, consider the Puna area (and possibly others)
to be primarily populated by illegal growers, wanabe growers, potheads,
sympathizers or other undesirables for which the afore-mentioned government
organizations have little respect or use. Officials don't consider residents of
the area will ever have enough political clout to be of much concern.
Therefore, as they consider the residents of the area to be primairily
composed of undesirables, many engaged in illegal activity, they have little
concern the overflights are annoying the populace, and may in fact consider
annoying and harrassing the populace to be a legitimate activity akin to
parking a patrol car in front of a drug dealer's house.

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You're not far off the mark but there's no way I can accept that a patrol car in front of a dealer's house is comparable to having your home and yard inspected by helicopter. I don't grow anything illegal, as far as I'm aware I'm not someone the police wish to target. I do nothing illegal in my house or yard yet I have helicopters fly over my property and checking if I'm in compliance in the law.

You can't compare this to a patrol car sitting at the side of a street, a public place, to having your own yard inspected by air.

This is the sort of thing I thought the US was against. I'd expect this in the old communist USSR and perhaps some other European countries, in fact I saw it in the UK 20 years ago - military helicopters buzzing everyone in Belfast but it was OK then because they were looking for terrorists with bombs. Not that they were very successful but that's another story.

Here it's just an invasion of privacy and in my own case they are not allowing me to enjoy my own property. That's something I thought the US constitution was supposed to protect.

Tom
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