If you support their use for a wide variety of purposes, here is how you can give your support oppose their use 00 you can tweet us we had about 30 people chiming in before the start of the program. You could also send us an e mail. It is the association of unmanned Vehicle Systems international. This story and convention is the featured story here on the front page of the walloptions and times ngton news talks about their use in the United States and reaction to them that is the opinion on the use of drones in the United States. The topic for first half hour. We want to get your thoughts on their use. Call on the line that best represents you and be prepared to tell us why. Use, 202t thethe us 585381. Out to how you can reach us. Facebook. Com available too. I see novans saying problems using them for military operations but do not think they should be used again surveillance civilians under any circumstances and they should not be allowed to be used for any individual to target another individual. Robert miller says this from thise comments mornings Facebook Page on the topic. If you support the use, we will hear from Law Enforcement officials as well. We will also hear from privacy advocates on this issue. Now is the chance to turn to you for the first halfhour and the discussion. On the supporto line. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I am an old retired military man. I do not know where we got this. I think what the governor just did, signing the voting thing i think [inaudible] host what specifically about the use of drones do you support . Rusty up next. Caller i oppose them. They are used to kill people overseas that we have not even declared war on. You bring them back here from the states and start using them against private citizens, it will get out of control fast. Thank you very much. For a wideare used variety of purposes. Are you concerned only about the surveillance aspect or think they can be used in other applications . Caller i think along the border they could be used to save money, but to actually target american citizens like a target the bad guys overseas definitely 100 percent opposed. D. C. , site ofon, convention featuring those in the industry. People that we will be talking to as the morning progresses. We go next to arthur. Arthur is on the support line in jacksonville, florida. Whyd you support the use of drones . If you are car, you do not want them. If you are a crook, you do not want them. If youre honest, you do. I support them. I definitely support them. We need them on the border, we need them everywhere. Them local police uses well, you are ok with that as well . Guest host yes definitely. You could stop a whole lot of crime. If you know you are being traffic i support the cameras. I support it all. I am 72yearsold and never seen so much crime in my whole life. Host no privacy concerns . Doing rightou are in life, you did not any problem with them. From that is our third jacksonville, fla. , for those that support them. Joseph adds technology cannot not be stopped. The use of drones depends on what they are used for. That is the issue. [inaudible] i am in support of the use of drones. [inaudible] the use has to stop. Thank you very much. That is my comment. If you support the use, if you oppose you may have seen on our network some of the conferences and forums that have been taking place at the convention. From the forum yesterday, want to show you the opinions expressed. You will hear from Pepperdine University law professor gregory neal arguing about privacy. E says it goes beyond drones and says Congress Needs to step in. Helicopter for the 23 officers killed on 9 11. It has a camera that can observe activity to miles away. Can see the details on peoples faces, read their name tags on peoples faces from up to 2 miles away. This is an advance of technology. I think the approach, if congress wanted to legislate, would be to look at the issue of surveillance. And then create lines based on the duration of surveillance that would maybe allow officers at their own discretion to observe individuals from any platform from any time. Once we get to the end of the sevenday time, maybe they need reasonable suspicion to continue surveillance for 48 hours. Anything longer than that might require a warrant. The times i have thrown out are just my best guess. Some might put it lower at 20 minutes. By doing that, were treating all technology the same. A camera trained on someones home persistently will be treated the same as a bit is a camera on a drone or someone standing on the rooftop using a camera. Issues whennd other it comes to technology can be found on our website at c span. Org. Good to the Video Library and type in the topic line. We will hear a lot of the opinions throughout the morning. Ohio on the opposed wind. Oppose line. Caller they are being used for domestic surveillance to protect us here from crime. To take used overseas on whomever. It is 7 10 and i can tell you the only thing that will prevent exposing cspan from being terrorists is he taking away my freedom of speech. I know what a terrorist is. I am 55 years old. I have watched this country be destroyed. The economic system, political system, education, infrastructure. Iraq, iran, or the was billionaires. Nd corporations you talk about terrorist on the show every single day. If you look at the jews in this country md. baltimore, caller has there been any on man drones and when whether there would make one legal versus the other . What is important to know about it . Caller i would think there would be more of a safety concern without the person behind a control. I can see where there would be more state regulation. Personally i am very supportive of them. We need to spend dollars on security and police and what ever. We will probably hear a lot about privacy as we go about the morning. Do you have concerns about that issue . Caller the use of the data is always there. A sign of the times. People are exploiting loopholes in the law and we need to observe and protect and keep people safe. Give up aans we little bit of Walking Around and picking your nose and someone sees it, that is what happens. The this is from Financial Times domestic use of drones and your thoughts on them. Caller i was here from before. The morning. To it. I am opposed big and tooing too powerful. They arent getting involved in everything. They did not have a good reason to do it. They keep doing it and reaching further and for their. For there. Ian, virginia. Company use drones during the war. I think during wartime it should be allowed. For civilian use, i think it needs to be severely regulated and possibly put into private Companies Rather than the federal government. Host why leave the control to the private company bursas government . Caller privatesector has a lot more regulations. Federal government can put their hands on it without the government and we made a mistake and nothing happens to them. Host what are some of the issues you have to consider . What should be considered . Caller i think the actual use of the drones and what they will be used for whether it is agriculture or Border Patrol for things like that. It should be more of a constitutional issue and there should be strict regulations on what happens to people and organizations of the break those rules. As bishop says a drone is a tool in cannot stop technology. Marcus says. Curby in orlando, florida. I believe this surveillance that drones allow is a good thing. It will take relief off of the agencies that go about protecting citizens. We have satellites already doing surveillance, but the only thing about satellites, we have to wait until they are in position. We have a faster and more secure from thetting relief socalled agencies that are here. Just support it. It is a good thing. It is good in emergencies. That is it. Jerseyast nights new democratic primary. The new york mayor, cory booker, the winner. He will face a special election october 16. Darent from butler, pa. On the opposing line. I do not believe this is good at all. I was watching the show earlier when the guy from Pepperdine University was on and talk about how they put these things in orbit and have them record 25 mile area and they could get a mind that information, just like they are doing with the tax records and everything else. It is just another way for them to take away our freedoms one at a time. They do that, and the next thing is the cars that are speeding, you will get a ticket. One thing at a time. I think of Benjamin Franklin were alive, they would be really upset. Benjamin franklin said those that would give up freedom for temporary safety do not deserve it. Host many stories talking about the Justice Department stopping the merger between u. S. Airlines today takes a look at some of the issues and the money section there are other issues as well, as highlighted in the papers this morning. Jeff is next in charlottesville, north carolina. Opposedi am completely to it. Thomas jefferson would be rolling in his grave is. Is approach to survey domestic. Same reason cia is not about to operate in the United States because it is too dangerous and too much of an invasion of liberty and privacy. I want to echo the consent of the last calller. It is dangerous. It would just get worse if we allow this to be allowed. Domestic use should be banned. And domestically they can operate overseas. As a weapon should be allowed like they are now. They should not be used in any setting whatsoever for domestic use, because it is a flagrant invasion of liberty. Not ancient Benjamin Franklin so much, but Thomas Jefferson would be rolling in his great because it is dangerous. Section ofolitick session Washington Times sean on the line for those that support the use of drums domestically. Hello. Caller i am close to the university of nebraska, and they have basically space law. Spaceex uses groans. Google new cars are part of this. We should up conversations that include major corporations. Im not fearful of the use of these. Mention specific companies. What are the values as far as using this technology . Sure myself. Not im not fearful of it. Autonomousking about light system. You were not talking about hellfire missiles. You are not talking about that. I am tired of the fear being put off by the conservatives of every other subject you think about. Think you could use the hybrid Aircraft Systems, the new types of blimps. They could be used for coastguard. They could be used for Border Patrol. Host you said autonomous, but there are people obviously behind it. Misnomer foris a the public. You think of a drawnout strike, you have 70 people behind that. Surveillance, 60 people behind it. A lot of people and support behind the systems. Cape stephen of next from coral, fla. Oppose line. Caller good morning. I was privy to a launch of a very honest looking vehicle on the beach in fort myers. Interesting vehicle sitting on the pavement. They launched it, and it went out over the beach, over the water. Helicoptertype thing. Got to talking to the fellow about it and said they mainly ,sed it for real estate viewing which is possible i guess. Back over the beach and landed in the parking lot, there is a berm separating it so they could not see where it landed. There were probably 30 people that came up over the beach to look at this thing and were scared to death. People were frightened. It was very interested in. They did not know what the heck it was. It looked like a ufo. It was black. Were onof video cameras edge. I was sitting watching the individual with the screen on his chest with a very complicated box to operate this thing. It was very informative. The price of the vehicle is about 50,000. It was quiet. Could not be heard, but it literally scared everybody to death. They came running over. At that point we did not know what use was. Ive think he was just showing the Police Officers what the capabilities were. Think the opinion it would change if the public knew more about the use of the vehicles into his behind them . Definitely education is necessary. On aas an autonomous mess looking vehicle. All black carbon fiber. Super hightech. Driven by gps. It was just a remarkable piece of technology. I could see where people would be scared if they did not see a launch like i did and saw it out over the beach. Probably oppose it to some degree. The guy said it had a lot of flights on it. Probably looked like a year ago and was the exterior. I think i was lucky to be able to see Something Like that. And host not too far from c span, a weeklong convention takes place. A look at those that represent the industry. There is a shot of the floor where vendors will put out their wares. We will talk to several people throughout the course of the morning about the vehicle. He will hear from Law Enforcement and how they use the technology and we will hear from privacy advocates. And we will continue taking calls on the topic. David from el paso. Caller i support this. I live 5 miles from the border of mexico. I think these grounds can be used for surveillance. Be used forhese can surveillance. What about if they are away from the border hovering other parts of all possible . Of el paso . Caller i agree with police. The park shooting of the young girl in chicago. I think if a drowned had been overhead recording everything they would be able to get the tower who shot her. It is surveillance. On thed his house, not door and locked him up for the rest of his life. He will be off the streets. Joy off of twitter says on the oppose line. This is john. Caller good morning. I understand there are privacy issues, but can we talk about the practical problems. The faa has various rules about what you can and cannot do and where you can not like and how much range you have to have between aircraft around you. Flighte to of temporary restrictions to make the area safe for the drone to operate. Storyof these agencies using the drones, suddenly you are shutting down huge areas of down to to aviation ground level. Is cutting off the entire city to Civil Aviation or potential commercial aviation. Can i add also that the Safety Record for these is not as good as people would like to think. People are people. There are tendencies to judge shut down the computer when youre done for the day. That has caused problems with these things landing in the middle of the streets. Yes, there are privacy problems, but also a mountain of practical problems with operating these things and populated areas. Agl for you use the term during your talking. What is that . Caller above ground level. I was a pilot for a while. I also have known air force people who have flown the plane themselves. That is arizona. Jim on the support line. Caller hello . I am in favor of using the drones. All you have to do is go to texas and see the illegal aliens coming across the border. And anything that can stop that, i am in support of it. If you are not doing anything illegal, you do not have to worry about drones flying around. Concernivacy is not a as far as what is taken informationwise and who is being looked at . Doing if you are not anything illegal, why did you need to worry about it . The illegal aliens are destroying my state. It needs to stop. It is known as a corridor for drugs, and i do not like that. If it can stop that, i am not worried about it a bit. Host the event we have been showing is sponsored by the physician for unmanned vehicles international. The president of the Association Joins us. The president joining us serves as the ceo. Thank you for joining us. I suppose that is what you prefer, but talk about language first. Why express it one way over another . They are called Unmanned Aircraft systems. That is the term that congress and the faa uses as the official as thelogy pure official terminology. So the key word in both of those acronyms is the word system. That is one of the misnomers that most people have when you talked about Unmanned Aircraft or Unmanned Aircraft system. Most people think of something very large in military, something hostile. That is not what these systems are. Fly only up to 400 feet. Two hours andeen theyuse that sign of usually work during the day. Theyre used in operations there where it is very safe. Basically what you have is a thing that flies. 30 percent of the overall system. A communication link. And you have a ground station. Most importantly, a human being. There is a human being involved. Host when you hear someone refer to them as ground, what goes through your mind . Guest i understand the difference, but most people do not. That is why i did not use that term. Host a lot of people this morning talk about technology and privacy issues and concerns. What are the other issues besides surveillance . Excellent point. Most of the applications when we get into the National Airspace is precision agriculture. More than 80 percent will be in agriculture. It will help farmers, ranchers, people of that type to be able to do what they do best in a more efficient and effective manner. When you understand that lettuce or corn that does not mind if you are watching it, the privacy issue goes away. There are not a whole lot of human beings that will be involved in it as well. It is not have the privacy concerns. Have the privacy concerns. Our if you want to ask the numbers are on the screen for republicans. You can also send us tweets about this. Ofre are three types operators of the system. One is known as the private recreation operator. There is also the public operator who operate four things for the federal state and local agencies. Could you break down what groups or industries represent these three groups . The terminology goes back to operations. We have had military being the dominant use. Were transitioning to civil and commercial applications. You mentioned recreational use. The American Modelers Association has been around for more than 80 years. People have been flying remotelycontrolled systems for ma