Posted on 01/24/2013 5:26:22 PM PST by haffast
NYPD places full body scanners on the streets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58icxdTpkSg
The way to defeat this is for everyone to carry a wooden pistol.
So DoD is taking part in law enforcement... How is that legal?
Wrap it in aluminum foil and you might have something there... but the subjects of NYC will never do it.
Or a big belt buckle. False positives is the way to get the devices rmoved. Someone else just looking to make billions selling the device to police departments all across the country. It’s not about protecting “the people” anymore than Oprah being serious about losing weight...lol
> Use of thermal imagers to detect grow operations was thrown out by the Supreme Court. I would expect the same here.
You forget O has “files” on all of the supreme ourt judges and will blackmail them in a New York minute.
If that were the case then a camera could be implanted in every house w/o the owner's consent because the camera only detects light emissions [and reflections] from other sources.
Well, if we can get 3d printing down fine enough we could have the links be (a) without seam, (b) made of interesting alloys, and possibly (c) constructed in such a way as to be fairly bullet proof/resistant.
To the people of a couple hundred years ago, it would be magic chainmail.
“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.”
BUMP
“If that were the case then a camera could be implanted in every house w/o the owner’s consent because the camera only detects light emissions [and reflections] from other sources.”
No, absolutely not.
Because the act of physically placing the camera would become “the intrusion”. Same as the police secretly placing GPS devices on some cars to track the location of the owners without a court order. Good chance that it will be invalidated later on.
Are there not cases of the police using infrared sensors to identify homes where marijuana is being grown under high-intensity lighting? No “active device” is being used here (i.e., something that sends a signal into the house, then reads the result), just “passive monitoring” of energy being generated from within the dwellings.
BIG difference legally.
Take this a step further with the “terahertz detector”, which passively monitors energy being radiated by one’s person.
I’m not any happier about this than you are.
But this is the future that’s coming...
“...carrying a pair of vice grips in a jacket pocket?...”
I’m liking that too. ANY heavy metal tool. Plus, it’s a hell of a striking weapon if you need it.
No one EVER has to be totally disarmed...we’re Americans... Ingenuity is one of our best assets.
Any way you can fight back, you should.
It’s a moral imperative.
“...Chainmail...”
Still, to this day, looks absolutely badass, especially when worn by a buxom lady...[don’t ask me how I know this... :^)]
Let me get this straight. The Dept of Defense, in other words, “the military”, is providing “weapons” to be used against civilians. It’s becoming all too common.
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