“While poets and psychologists talk about soldiers bringing the battlefield home with them, in fact, the U.S. is doing just that. More and more, weapons, tactics, techniques and procedures that have been used abroad in war are coming home, this time employed against American Citizens. Today’s front-page article in the Washington Postconfirms that wartime surveillance blimps– aerostats– used in Iraq and Afghanistan will now monitor most of the Northeast United States. The aerostats will be able to track individual cars and trucks as they move about their business. The Army confirmed that by summer 2014 at least two of these aerostats will be permanently over the Washington DC area.”
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/01/23/a-government-turning-the-tools-of-war-on-its-citizens/