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Brown Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants for Drone Surveillance
WSJ ^ | 09/29/14 | Zusha Elinson

Posted on 09/30/2014 6:30:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have required police to obtain warrants for surveillance by drone, making California the latest state to weigh on an issue that is dividing lawmakers across the country.

Mr. Brown's decision comes as the nation grapples with how to balance concerns over privacy and civil liberties with a technology that police departments say can serve as a powerful law-enforcement tool.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; brown; california; drones; eastgermany; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; pinac; stasi; warrants
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I guess Californians think it's okay for the police to violate their rights?
1 posted on 09/30/2014 6:30:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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californians......actually voted to return moonbeam to the state house....

its the water


2 posted on 09/30/2014 6:34:27 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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Californian politicians certainly have destroyed a beautiful state.


3 posted on 09/30/2014 6:36:05 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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I thought Jerry Brown was supposed to be a for-the-people kind of guy.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 6:37:51 AM PDT by grania
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visited cali once in the 80s, it certainly is a beautiful state................some of the people however...


5 posted on 09/30/2014 6:40:07 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Enlightened1

No, the electorate did that. They had a choice who to vote for and either didn’t show up or voted for destruction. The pols did what they said they’d do....


6 posted on 09/30/2014 6:40:47 AM PDT by 556x45
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I dont see how they could make it much worse...


7 posted on 09/30/2014 6:44:51 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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It’s very tempting for myself, a conservative, not to vote in California elections, but I pray someday there will be enough voters voting for a change to the insanity. Our elected officials have recently allocated 30 million dollars to pay for the relocation of birds on the old Bay bridge to the new Bay bridge.


8 posted on 09/30/2014 6:47:30 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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It seems to me that Californians have destroyed a beautiful state by choosing to elect California Politicians. We might survive the idiots in office, but only if America quits electing them.


9 posted on 09/30/2014 6:59:30 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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I wonder what the framers would have thought about some state clown flying by their windows in a hot air baloon spying upon their doings without so much as a warrant? My sense is not so much.

We have gone full circle now, rather than the state being open to the voters, it is not closed for anything except what it dains to let out while the citizens are free to be spied upon at whim. Sad times.


10 posted on 09/30/2014 7:11:04 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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“it’s the water”

No, we don’t have any water, must be something else!


11 posted on 09/30/2014 7:12:43 AM PDT by vette6387
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We are told daily that liberals are the only ones who will protect our civil liberties.


12 posted on 09/30/2014 7:15:09 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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Has the WSJ now put all of its content behind a paywall?


13 posted on 09/30/2014 7:22:29 AM PDT by Bob
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dehydration...has been known to lead to some very fuzzy thinking......


14 posted on 09/30/2014 7:28:18 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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I thought Jerry Brown was supposed to be a for-the-people kind of guy.

This pric@ never was. He is a typical communists anti freedom jackass and the jackass communists democratic voters love him. California is finished and has been the magnetic for the insane and illegals.

15 posted on 09/30/2014 7:30:32 AM PDT by Logical me
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Is OK for the chumps in CA - but here in TX we still have shotguns, and while we’re not the best shots, we have lots of ammo.


16 posted on 09/30/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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As if we don’t?

I guarandamntee you that if I see one of those buzzing around my house it’s going down...


17 posted on 09/30/2014 7:49:18 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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:)

PULL!


18 posted on 09/30/2014 8:25:31 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Enlightened1

Weirldy enough, I agree with Governor Brown on this one. If police are required to have warrants to use RC helicopters that are equipped with cameras then that law would be misused to say that everyone has to get permission to use RC helicopters equipped with cameras.

That would not be in the best interests of freedom and liberty. I’d rather let the police use these things as they see fit than to let the police start regulating whether or not private citizens can use these things to keep an eye on the police.


19 posted on 09/30/2014 8:26:37 AM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: grobdriver

Damn straight...I’m way past sick and tired of this idiocy.

Liberal scum just keep pushing and sheeple just go along with it...baaa.

I have lots of birdshot rounds, lots...one could almost say it’s an “arsenal”.

I shoot all kinds of birds; the clay type, the feathered type and in this case, I will add the motorized type.


20 posted on 09/30/2014 8:31:36 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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