Happy New Year, Big Brother Is Watching You…

Another one of my gifts from Chocolate Snowflake was the All Terrain Scout Transport from Star Wars Eps.5 and 6. The AT-ST was featured heavily in the battle for Endor during Ep.6 when we got to see what the inside of the vehicle’s cockpit looked like.
The AT-ST looks like the NYPD’s ‘SkyWatch’ system which has been deployed in poor neighborhood’s throughout the city. The devices are ominously aggressive looking even though they are touted as surveillance equipment in the neighborhoods they have been deployed.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine the SkyWatch devices being outfitted with a traction chasis, possibly from a tank or some other military industrial vehicle and of course some kind of cannon.
I wonder if the NYPD SkyWatch seats two(2) operators like the AT-ST?

Or will the Galactic Empire make the SkyWatch a single-operator vehicle like the T.I.E. fighters?

I got my eyes on this company ICx Technology Tactical Systems.
They definitely have their eyes on me.

January 1st, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Those things are awful…I would HATE to have one on my block, and I don’t think they protect against shit but the smash n’ grab.
January 2nd, 2011 at 12:40 am
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither (c)
January 2nd, 2011 at 6:41 pm
@johnny all those things are for when the crowd is big. you doing something stupid they can just arest you later. you will deny all the way until you get to station and then they show you the tape.
January 2nd, 2011 at 6:42 pm
yeah van but i would like to get on a plane without it blowing up
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:50 am
love the parallel Don Dallas, u killed it, that is fun… respect the law or they’ll catch u! Happy merry nu year tho, 2011 is gon be charged of police wackness, we’d better get ready…
January 3rd, 2011 at 3:08 pm
That big Bro pic is spooky as shit