If my home is protected by a digital lock on the front door, does Fedgov have the right to make the lock maker open it?
Does Fedgov have the right to activate the microphone on my cell phone, or the camera on my private computer?
If my car has OnStar, can Fedgov access it to listen in on me or disable its engine?
The answer to all should be NO, not without the owner's permission.
Have we gone back to “general warrants”, like the ones that helped cause the american revolution. Warrants have to be specific in describing where to search and specifically what they are looking for. It shouldn’t just be, we want to look in your house for anything illegal. If the person is accused of trespassing on jan 6, how is anything in a gunsafe germane to that?
If my home is protected by a digital lock on the front door, does Fedgov have the right to make the lock maker open it? Does Fedgov have the right to activate the microphone on my cell phone, or the camera on my private computer? If my car has OnStar, can Fedgov access it to listen in on me or disable its engine?
The answer to all should be NO, not without the owner's permission.
I'm afraid that even this misses the "bigger issue." Why are you on about whether or not the feds have the "right" to do something? The bigger issue, it seems to me, is whether the feds have the power to do something.
When all is said and done, what is the purpose of Amendment II anyway? The vindication of some abstract "right" or something a bit more concrete? When all is said and done, what are people prepared actually to do, hmm?