Tasered and SWATted for six cows? Eye in the sky knows all.

<img src="http://politicaloutcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/who-watches-watch... align="right">First, our government used them on suspected terrorists half-way around the globe. Then, they used them on American citizens half-way around the globe. Now, they're using them on Americans right here on U.S. soil, and a North Dakota judge sees no reason to be alarmed. Just last year, for the first time in America, a predator drone was used to assist police in the arrest of farmer Rodney Brossart and his family in the small town of Lakota, North Dakota.

Lakota is a 1-square-mile town of about 780 people and not big enough to contain Mr. Brossart's 3,000-acre farm of corn and soybeans. A neighbor's six cows wandered onto his property, and Brossart refused to return them based on an interpretation of an "open range law" until the neighbor paid him for the feed which the cows consumed.

When police first showed up on the scene, they tasered and arrested Mr. Brossart after he refused to surrender the cows. His wife was also arrested for supposedly "misleading" the police as to where the "illegal weapons" were. Police arrived again the following day and were chased away by Brossart's armed, adult children.

That's when police reciprocated with a warrant, a SWAT team, a bomb squad and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, courtesy of Homeland Security. The spy drone was able to give the County Sheriff aerial footage of the property on his laptop and tell if any of the residents were armed. After a total of 16 hours of standoff, the SWAT team raided the house and arrested Brossart's sons on "terrorizing" and other charges.

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