When a lot of people think of a “drone,” they think of a flying craft the size of a small airplane with no pilot and bad intentions… But the drones that people should really be worried about are the ones no larger than a flying insect. Surely you wonder, what harm could come from such a small drone? With the stinger of a wasp and the venom of a deadly cobra mixed into one tiny flying mechanical device… It simply lands on you, administers its bad medicine and that’s it – You’re done… As in dead.

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The above picture has the important parts of this flying nuisance highlighted.

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Just in case you’re wondering if you will ever get 86ed by one of these tiny killing machines, the answer is, who knows? Most conspiracy types are convinced this is kind of machine that killed Andrew Breitbart. And you don’t have to be controversial, the government apparently thinks anybody is fair game in the drone killing department… If you don’t believe me just read this official government document setting down the conditions…

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“A lawful killing in self-defense is not an assassination,” the white paper reads. “In the Department’s view, a lethal operation conducted against a U.S. citizen whose conduct poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States would be a legitimate act of national self-defense that would not violate the assassination ban. Similarly, the use of lethal force, consistent with the laws of war, against an individual who is a legitimate military target would be lawful and would not violate the assassination ban.”

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Early version: This is what the tiny drone looked like sometime before they figured out how to implement the watch battery that now effectively powers the beast…
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