“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ” —Fourth Amendment to the Constitution
“Fourth Amendment? Never heard of it.”–The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
The Circus has ruled that the gov’t has a right to track you anywhere you go with GPS (planted by them) without a warrant. I am not making this up.
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway – and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.
That is the bizarre – and scary – rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants – with no need for a search warrant.
It is a dangerous decision – one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich.
No reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements? Are we that far gone?
In Maryland they are trying to put a man in jail for videotaping a policeman while he was being arrested. Cops have a reasonable expectation of privacy while performing their public duty but you have none no matter where you go and what you do? This is crazy.
Every week I ask my brother Matthew “Is it time to get the guns and ammo yet?” And every week he says no. At this rate, how much longer will he be able to say that?
August 30, 2010 at 12:27 am
Lavatea – the government has been "tracking" people since the revolutionary war. There are just better/more technologically sophisticated ways of doing so now. There is no difference in planting a GPS system on someone's car and assigning a 24/7 surveilance team to track/follow that person, save the fact that the former can be accomplished with less man-hours involved. That's it. No difference. And this has been going on for a LONG TIME without us becoming a police state. Ridiculous.
Anyway, back to your other comment, in the post which begins "I most certainly have not checked my brains out", you end by giving the analogy to Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40's. That whole post was dedicated to your diatribe against "trampling" the religious freedom of the poor Mohammedan. There was no mention about GPS or tracking in it. So, do us both a favor and don't try and cower now saying "what you really meant" and try and apologize for some perceived misunderstanding, as there was none. If you care to retract what you wrote, that's a different matter.
Either way, I think I've made a valid assessment of the situation here. Let me dumb it down for you:
tracking = good/useful
government = democratic/not Nazis Mohammedanism = bad/dangerous
crack-pot = comparing GPS tracking to big-brother/calling Catholics to stockpile weapons
August 30, 2010 at 12:40 am
In every one of my posts I've tackled two separate issues. I'm not cowering or covering my tracks now. Obviously, the post I mentioned where I should have separated the two sentences IS the reason you've mixed my two points since it's the exact same post you refer to as my "diatribe against 'trampling' the religious freedom of the poor Mohammedan".
I don't need you to dumb anything down for me, but since you feel the need to have the last word and convince everyone of my limited brain power, I'll let you reply to this post without the concern of me responding or in anyway defending myself. Feel free to call me stupid or some other such nonsense. I think my posts speak for themselves.
August 30, 2010 at 8:51 pm
You mean you haven't stockpiled your guns and ammo yet?
August 31, 2010 at 4:24 am
Some types of ammo are so in-demand that they fly off the shelves and are hard to keep stocked. Buy it whenever you can find it. Use cash to pay.