"Liberal" politicians don't look at George Orwell's "1984" as a warning, they look at it as an instruction manual. ---- Jim Quinn
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"Liberal" politicians don't look at George Orwell's "1984" as a warning, they look at it as an instruction manual. ---- Jim Quinn
I’m grateful that FR is one place I won’t see “If it prevents one crime/saves one life/stops the spread of a disease it’s worth it” posts when it comes to these sort of high jinks.
To the extent these are used in war zones ... sounds like a good idea.
To the extent they are used in the United States, you’d better have a warrant or probable cause. This isn’t the same thing as law enforcement looking in a car window (which is legal). This is an invasive search.
SnakeDoc
Besides the obvious invasion of privacy issue here, what is the potential health threat to the public if this is happening?
About a month ago I was on highway 52 just south of St. Paul MN, when I saw two brand new vehicles parked in the median parallel to traffic. One was a small truck and the other was a Suburban. Both had Department of Homeland Security markings on them. I wandered why homeland security vehicles were parked in the median of a major highway. After reading this article, I wander if it was one of these X-ray vehicles.
All your privacy are belong to us.
The old saw applies, “if you don’t have anything to hide, why fret”.
Sounds very useful near border areas, high crime districts, and undercover surveillance operations......
Not to mention a little peekaboo inside someone’s domicile.
The Surveillance State advances a little more.
HOA’s and certain communities could even enforce diktats and ordnances on the use of certain materials like alcohol and tobacco inside one’s not so private property.
The Nannyists smile.
Airport Scanner Technology Mounted On US Gov't Vans To Scan What's In Nearby Vehicles
On the border crossings this sort of thing would be fantastic. At the border there is no 4th amendment. But of course using this sort of thing anywhere else should require a warrant, or some other sort of court order.
Where this would also save a lot of time and stress is on those occasions when there’s some “suspicious vehicle” left parked somewhere it shouldn’t be, like a big Ryder truck left parked in front of a Federal building. Send in one of these trucks to immediately, and non-invasively, find out whether the truck is full of office supplies, or drums of ANFO.