This is nuts and when they mention "protesters" you really have to wonder. In recent protests the British government has been known to go well overboard and there's nothing that suggests this will be different. They're obsessed with creating a police state and monitoring everything. Another victory for democracy, huh?
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
