Posted on 05/22/2009 8:45:53 AM PDT by Clint Williams
mikesd81 writes
"Wired.com reports that you may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it. FCC spokesman David Fiske says 'Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference.' The FCC claims it derives its warrantless search power from the Communications Act of 1934, though the constitutionality of the claim has gone untested in the courts. 'It is a major stretch beyond case law to assert that authority with respect to a private home, which is at the heart of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure,' says Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Lee Tien. 'When it is a private home and when you are talking about an over-powered Wi-Fi antenna — the idea they could just go in is honestly quite bizarre.'"
I have the right to shoot anyone that was not invited.
They’ll have to look down the barrel of a .45 while they are snooping.... it’ll move them along faster.
The FCC needs to inspect the products at the companys that make them.....not the private homes.
LOLROF...Ill be sure to let my overprotective 83lb dog know that....lolrof!
FCC meet Castle Doctrine.
hope they like 000 Buck, and lots of it
I could just see it now....please step back sir, we have a warrant to search your home for illegal wireless....
Pop....pop pop....pop
Call: 911, what's your emergency?
Caller: uh yes mamm, there are two intruders laying in my living room.
Just felt it needed repeating...
we’ll find out when they reimpose the Fairness Doctrine and find themselves running around the country trying to shut down thousands of Rush Pirates....
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I don’t think this is anything new. The FCC has long had the ability to seek out and shut down illegal transmitters, or transmitters causing interference with other legit users.
That is fine as long as the FCC first notifies the homeowner that it is the suspected source of interference.
The FCC can then request the homeowner to voluntarily allow a search or the FCC can then get a warrant to search.
Warrantless searches at any time just lead to dead people on both sides. Just ask the Branch Davidian....oh, they're all dead.
FCC agent found dead he opened door to house that was wired to shot gun on table.
My thoughts exactly!!
BUT, they don’t have the right to enter your home without a warrant. No one does. Frickin’ apologists like you just chap my hide.
They can look at any of these devices they want at my home. They can tell me what they want to see and I’ll get it from my home and they can view it in my front yard, probably when it hits their car.
But they’re not coming in...
Homeowner: I came home and found this guy rumaging through my computer room.
Cop: (Pointing at second dead guy) And what happened to him?
Homeowner: Oh, he was trying to jimmy the garage opener.
I prefer to smack them unconscious (with my tire checker), tie them naked to a metal chair with one hand free, wire the chair to an appropriate power source, and force them to masturbate while staring at several large posters of Helen Thomas.
Oh, thanks.
There went dinner.
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