Thursday, August 26, 2010

Garbage In, Garbage Out


The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves

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.

But asking to see ID or proof of residency when stopped by police - as they want to do in Arizona - is somehow not constitutional?

And Tea Partiers are terrorists and it's OK for Islamists to build a victory mosque at Ground Zero.

We cannot offend one single Muslim but Islam can offend 60% of Americans and that's OK, too.

Our leaders are insane, and what does that say for the people who elect them? If we keep on this trajectory, pretty soon we won't have to elect them at all, they will just appoint themselves.

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