The White House - above the law and Constitution
America - Screwed without Impeachment and Conviction
Posted on 02/12/2010 4:03:45 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
CNET was the first to report on prospective tracking of American citizens using cell phone technology, but this week Barack Obama becomes the Dark Knight himself, seizing the opportunity to spy on every American through unfettered access to their cell phone records, physical locations and internet use.
In the movie the Dark Knight, Batman uses cell phone technology to spy on the citizens of Gotham, following their every move in his quest to locate his nemesis. On Friday, the Obama administration will argue in federal court for the right, without a court-ordered warrant, to gain access to cellular provider records documenting the time and location American citizens place cell phone calls. I know you’re thinking, “But what about my Constitutional rights against search and seizure?” Those rights will no longer exist. The Obama administration is advocating that,
“Warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that ‘a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records’ that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
But cellular providers record more information than just when and where a call is placed. All cell phones “ping” the closest cell phone towers when not in use, alerting the tower it is within its transmission range, even when it’s turned off. The only way to disconnect a cell phone’s ability to contact the towers is to remove its battery.
Despite the Obama administration’s assertion, I somehow doubt the signers of the Constitution would have agreed there is “no reasonable expectation of privacy.”
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Release your long form birth certificate and college records.
And John Kerry can release his long form SF 180 in full.
Cheers!
It’s true we have rights to privacy with no reasonable expectation they will be protected by our gov’t.
LLS
As always, it is the law-abiding people who are screwed the most.
I’m sure the same liberal groups that screamed about George W. Bush and The Patriot Act will also scream about this invasion of privacy by Hussein. sarc/
What’s that I hear from the left? The sound of crickets?
Letting the Leftwingtards focus on beating down "privacy rights" allows further undercutting of their right to kill babies.
They face a dilemma ~ do they want the dead bodies more than they want to know how you use your cellphone.
If Obama believes that Americans have not reasonable right to privacy, then when will he allow access to his college records, birth records and everything else?
I.e., do as I say, not as I do.
Obama did not support warrantless wiretaps of terrorists yet asserts unfettered tracking, tapping, and internet snooping of all Americans. Democrat bureaucrats can be trusted with private records, NOT! Expect leaked embarrassing information and political harassment.
Hey Barry, give us the password to your Blackberry, you hypocrite.
So under ObamaCare, there will be no expectation of the privacy of medical records either?
Peons and subjects to tyranny have no rights. This was what the Founding Fathers warned us about. They chip away at our rights daily. They want to rule over us. One way to avoid cellular detection is to take out the batteries to your cell phone until it is needed, otherwise it is a tracking device and sometimes a listening device to be used by the government in any way they see fit.
These same idiots had a problem that under Bush’s Administration after 9/11 having international incoming calls wiretapped from prospective terrorists. We’re doomed until we can turn things around in 2012.
That is what I thought. They howled about the wiretaps of overseas terrorists under the Bush Admin.
well if W had said this...... he would have been summoned to the congress for an explanation and the press would do it job and fry him... so why not O
The White House - above the law and Constitution
America - Screwed without Impeachment and Conviction
“No reasonable expectation of privacy”????
Pardon my French, but....
BULL-F***ING S**T, YOU KENYAN JERKOFF!!!!!!!
No, they’ll get it both ways. They’re interested in power and control. This feeds the Leviathan.
Roe v. Wade is bad law and bad legal thinking. Blackmun is a fool, but conservatives were even more foolish to argue against a right to privacy as the attack on Roe. Better to attack Blackmun’s assertion that science cannot tell us when life begins so we’ll side with death.
Americans believe in innocent until proven guilty. This would have been an effective tack to take against an abhorrent and poorly founded ruling.
This (expectation of privacy) is what derailed the Bork SC nomination. Interesting position for the obama supporters now -
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