…a JFK speech very much worth hearing. It is relevant to toady’s scandals and political head fakes.
Posts Tagged ‘Fourth Amendment’
Video: The Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy…
Posted: 21 Jun 2013 in Constitution, Control, Democrats, Failure, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Freedom, Government, History, Liberty, Politics, Truth, VideoTags: Constitution, Democrats, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Freedom, Liberty, Politics, Republicans, Second Amendment, Truth
More Fourth Amendment Erosion…
Posted: 1 Nov 2012 in Activist Judges, Constitution, DEA, Fourth Amendment, Police Officer/Sheriff, Police StateTags: Constitution, DEA, Fourth Amendment, Judge, Police State, Surveillance, technology
…this time from a judge that says warrantless use of concealed surveillance cameras on private property is OK.
Just keep ignoring it America.
Your rights keep dwindling away on a daily basis.
Court OKs warrantless use of hidden surveillance cameras
By Declan McCullagh
In latest case to test how technological developments alter Americans’ privacy, federal court sides with Justice Department on police use of concealed surveillance cameras on private property.
Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday.
CNET has learned that U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ruled that it was reasonable for Drug Enforcement Administration agents to enter rural property without permission — and without a warrant — to install multiple “covert digital surveillance cameras” in hopes of uncovering evidence that 30 to 40 marijuana plants were being grown.
This is the latest case to highlight how advances in technology are causing the legal system to rethink how Americans’ privacy rights are protected by law. In January, the Supreme Court rejected warrantless GPS tracking after previously rejecting warrantless thermal imaging, but it has not yet ruled on warrantless cell phone tracking or warrantless use of surveillance cameras placed on private property without permission.
Yesterday Griesbach adopted a recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan dated October 9. That recommendation said that the DEA’s warrantless surveillance did not violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and requires that warrants describe the place that’s being searched.
“The Supreme Court has upheld the use of technology as a substitute for ordinary police surveillance,” Callahan wrote.
Government Grabs More…
Posted: 13 Sep 2012 in ATF, Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Constitution, Democrats, Failure, Fourth Amendment, Government, Guns, Obama, Police State, Politics, SCOAMF, Second Amendment, Stupid People, WTF FilesTags: ATF, Axis of Idiots, Comrade Obama, Daily Reading List, Democrats, Due Process, Fourth Amendment, Guns, Idiots, Liberal, Liberalism is a mental disorder, Second Amendment
…power.
This time it’s the ATF. They can now seize guns without due process making it so that the defendant must prove their innocence, rather than the government having to prove guilt.
Step by step, inch by inch. The government keeps taking away our rights. More and more Americans think this shit is the norm and nothing is done about it.
It’s time to push back.
First, get rid of Obama and the Democrats in Congress.
Second, get rid of the RINOs in Congress.
Third institute term limits for Congress.
Fourth, force Congress to be subject to the laws they pass on us. That would stop a lot of the BS they pass as legislation right there.
Fifth, enforce our borders, language and culture. Make English the official language. No official government paperwork in any other language. That would save millions alone.
Obama has expanded civil-forfeiture rules making it permissible for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to seize weapons from citizens without the hassle of due process.
This effectively gives Attorney General Eric Holder, of Fast and Furious fame, extended power over guns and gun-related property.
The rules were broadened under the guise of giving the ATF authority “to seize and administatively forfeit property involved in controlled substance abuses.” And if that doesn’t strike you as extreme on first glance, consider the fact that this expansion of civil-forfeiture allows the ATF to forego almost all “due process” in making their seizures — in effect, placing the burden of proof on the citizen instead of federal agents.
What Happened to the 4th Amendment?
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Communism, Constitution, Department of Homeland Stupidity, Fourth Amendment, Government, Neo-Marxists, Obama, Police State, Politics, SCOAMF, Stupid People, TSA, WTF FilesTags: 4th Amendment, Axis of Idiots, Communists, Comrade Obama, Constitution, Democrats, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homland Stupidity, DHS, Fourth Amendment, Liberalism is a mental disorder, Neo-Marxist, TSA
This country is turning into the Soviet Union more and more every day. Our freedoms are being continually eroded in the name of ‘security’ and the public safety.
The TSA has moved beyond the airports and are now in bus terminals, train stations, and are now expanding into areas that are not even related to transportation.
Now they are moving into the streets of America.
When will it end?
When will the assholes in Congress step in and stop the DHS’ takeover of America?
This is starting to look more and more like a Soviet style police state.
I’m fucking tired of it and our douche bags in Congress need to be tossed out on their collective asses if they don’t stop this in its tracks. Defund TSA, fire Napolitano’s ass. fire Obama, fire them all.
TSA Rifles Through Bags, Conducts Pat Downs At Paul Ryan Event
Government agents moving out of airports and into the streets
Steve Watson
For some time we have been warning that the TSA is systematically moving beyond the nation’s airports and conducting operations on the streets of America.
The latest example of this kind of activity occurred at an event organized by Mitt Romney’s GOP running mate Paul Ryan this past weekend in The Villages, Florida.
The Shark Tank blog reports that TSA officers showed up alongside Secret Service and the local Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, and proceeded to do what they do like no one else does.
“A big WTF is in order here.” the blog notes, adding “We heard that the TSA was going to expand its ummm, ‘reach,’ but to assist in political campaigns is quite the jump in broadening their ‘transportation security horizons.’”
Iraq Vet Brutalized Over Guns in D.C…
Posted: 15 Jun 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Constitution, Fourth Amendment, Guns, Military, Police Officer/Sheriff, Police State, Second Amendment, US Army, Veterans, WTF FilesTags: Army, Axis of Idiots, DC Polce, Fourth Amendment, Guns, Illegal Search and Seizure, Iraq Veteran, Police, Police State, Second Amendment, Veteran
This is travesty. A nation that treats it’s Soldiers in this manner doesn’t deserve to be a nation. There are a couple things wrong with this in regards to the Constitution alone, never mind simple common sense.
First there’s the issue of the Second Amendment. It is constantly being violated by the District of Columbia, in that they do everything in their illegal power to confiscate, or prevent gun ownership. And I thought California was bad.
Then there’s the issue of the Fourth Amendment. Yeah, the one that states: “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.”
The MPD violated this one straight up.
If it were me they did this to, they’d put my name over the MPD HQ when I was done with them.
This is a series of articles on this by Emily Miller, here’s the first:
MILLER: Iraq vet brutalized over guns in D.C.
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) seems to have it out for our military. The department is using the city’s pointless firearm registration mandate to harass, arrest and jail servicemen.
Army 1st Sergeant Matthew Corrigan was woken in the middle of the night, forced out of his home, arrested, had his home ransacked, had his guns seized and was thrown in jail — where he was lost in the prison system for two weeks — all because the District refuses to recognize the meaning of the Second Amendment. This week, the city dropped all charges against Sgt. Corrigan, but the damage done to this reservist cannot be so easily erased.
This story will describe how Sgt. Corrigan went from sleeping at home at night to arrested. Subsequent installments of the series will cover the home raid without a warrant, the long-term imprisonment and the coverup by MPD.
There’s a link to the next one in the series. There are three at the moment.
Big Brother’s All-Seeing Eye…
Posted: 8 Jun 2012 in Constitution, Department of Homeland Stupidity, Fourth Amendment, PoliticsTags: Big Brother, Drones, Fourth Amendment, Surveillance, UAV
The government is spying on you and violating your rights. It will only get worse.
NAPOLITANO: Big Brother’s all-seeing eye
By Andrew P. Napolitano
Use of military surveillance drones overhead would be un-American
For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government’s use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel, where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if – had they existed at the time – King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom windows of Monticello. I suspect Jefferson and his household would have trained their muskets on the drones and taken them down. I offer this historical anachronism as a hypothetical only, not as someone who is urging the use of violence against the government.
Nevertheless, what Jeffersonians are among us today? When drones take pictures of us on our private property and in our homes and the government uses the photos as it wishes, what will we do about it? Jefferson understood that when the government assaults our privacy and dignity, it is the moral equivalent of violence against us. Folks who hear about this, who either laugh or groan, cannot find it humorous or boring that their every move will be monitored and photographed by the government.
Don’t believe me that this is coming? The photos that the drones will take may be retained and used or even distributed to others in the government so long as the “recipient is reasonably perceived to have a specific, lawful governmental function” in requiring them. And for the first time since the Civil War, the federal government will deploy military personnel insidetheUnitedStates and publicly acknowledge that it is deploying them “to collect information about U.S. persons.”
It gets worse. If the military personnel see something of interest from a drone, they may apply to a military judge or “military commander” for permission to conduct a physical search of the private property that intrigues them. Any “incidentally acquired information” can be retained or turned over to local law enforcement. What’s next? Prosecutions before military tribunals in the United States?
via NAPOLITANO: Big Brother’s all-seeing eye – Washington Times.