It may have taken more than a few hundred years but it seems that the French-backed terrorist junta of the Americas has finally resorted to type.
The free world was aghast yesterday when the United States decided that it is perfectly acceptable for Government agents to 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.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has decided that this does not violate the Fourth Amendment.
Robed but not wigged law lords came to the conclusion that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their own driveways. Nor is it reasonable not to expect that the government is tracking your movements.
The Ninth Circuit looks after California and eight other Western states so all the coppers in those regions will be buying GPS tracking gear to strap under the cars of anyone they think is a local criminal.
One of the dissenting judges warned that the move could turn America into a totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. Speaking of which, take a look at Place de George Orwell, Barcelona, here.
Not everyone will have a problem with spooks. The court suggested that rich people will have their driveways invaded and their cars tagged.
As Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from the decision, pointed out homes which are not open to strangers and have electric gates, fences and security booths are still protected from the change in the law. So much for all being equal before the law.
Although Kozinski was thinking of 1984 when he made the comments given the US' revolutionary upbringing Animal Farm would be most appropriate.
A Mafioso type who has heavy security cannot have a transmitter attached to his car, but the bloke who is suspected of delivering drugs can be.
Ordinary Americans who cannot afford barriers to keep spooks out have to put up with their every move monitored.
The court added that once a GPS device has been planted, the government is free to use it to track people without getting a warrant - until the batteries run down we guess.
Obviously the US is trying to save on spooks pensions.
After all, they all come from Scam Fagcrisco and Moron County, Califoricatia.
People over here are starting to notice how Stalinistic our federal government has become, and we're not liking it.
I like Tom's comment, though. True enough.
Nah, the work will be contracted out to corporations that hire illegal aliens who work for less than minimum wage, and would either get shot by drug lords back home, or in the American driveways of 2nd Amendment nutjobs.
The real spooks won't even leave their giant office blocks in Washington, where they monitor CNN and Faux news around the clock for the latest threats...
But I don't expect a drooling 'useful fool' as Lenin so famously said about the sell-outs among the so-called 'intelligensia' to understand reality.
I don't know why anyone would monitor CNN for threats, it would be like watching MSNBC for news; it don't play on that channel. Unless you wanna count Bathtub Boy as a wild-eyed radical Bolshevik revolutionary. Which he is, BTW.
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the solution for all of this is to: lower taxes, shrink the size of government, and to hire more law enforcement officers.
And if you don't want a police state with a Tea Party junta, then you may find yourself being persecuted by the strong arm of the plodded sod alls, when the snakes become the tempters for the forbidden-fruit-du-jour.
The "Real American" judicials are into flat usurpation and property seizure.
Oh_ And the fancying up will be for additional deficit-spending to "set up a national GPS monitoring system" for all pigs to use. Listen, people, any bobby who fancies you, can track your phone number, and acquire all sorts of information about you, your credit, etc., without expending little effort.
And_ Oh, they do it with your neighbor's blessing and full impunity, smug in the conceit.
It is: "bugger thy neighbor before thy neighbor buggers you"; This is what passes for the Right's philosophy.
For what do we owe the honour of this lack of civility? It is: "Where do you go, today? I think not."
Quote:
"For, the expectation of gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap." __Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't blame anyone else for the usurpation of your rights.