You know President Obama, one of the main reasons I voted for you was the fact you were a constitutional scholar. For many years, the Bush Administration had trampled over our civil liberties in the name of security. We all know the well-worn quote from Ben Franklin concerning that matter, so why, why of why, are you allowing your Department of Justice to appeal a gross shredding of the Fourth Amendment?
Gov't asks high court to take GPS tracking case
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Mark Sherman, Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/...
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up an important privacy case for the digital age, whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements.
The administration is appealing a lower court ruling that reversed a criminal conviction because the police did not obtain a warrant for the GPS device they secretly installed on a man's car.
The federal appeals court in Washington said that officers violated the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches. Other appeals courts have ruled that search warrants aren't necessary for GPS tracking.
This is a very unreasonable search because while one cannot expect privacy on a public road, one also cannot be expected to never enter private property over the course of an investigation. This is just covering up sloppy police work when they failed to get the proper warrants based on probable cause.
When this goes to the Supreme Court, and the jokers who currently sit there, the next thing we know all our GPS data will become a tool to constantly track us with utter disregard to the Fourth Amendment and expectations of privacy.
Oh what a slippery slope you have placed this republic on President Obama. Now we are in the hands of the kangaroo court to protect us from constant tracking without any probably cause.
If SCOTUS does back your DOJ's desire to have all Americans under the watchful constant eye of Big Brother, I wonder how you will square that away with your studies of the expectations of privacy as discussed in the Federalist Papers.
Or how you will act shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, when you find out this tool you have created for the police state is used against citizens in very nefarious ways.
Least we forget Big Brother was illegally watching the daily activities of anti-war activists in the Bush Administration, among other groups that the administration found politically unhelpful.
Of course, you are trying legalize the worse transgressions of the Bush Era, and I am just wondering why.
Why are you trying to go Big Brother on us? Or do you not have control of your DOJ anymore?