Comments on: Big Brother Wants to Know Where You’re Going, All the Time

By: R Schloemer

R Schloemer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:53:29 +0000

*sigh* You’re right. In a country of 300,000,000 people and growing, where a million illegal immigrants flow over the boarders each year, hundreds of billions go into the manufacture and sale of illegal drugs, terrorists trying to insert themselves into the country constantly, serial murderers, arsonists, rapists, child molesters, corrupt CEO’s and fraudulent companies, people who lie on their taxes, corrupt politicians, domestic abuse, gang violence, neo-Nazi paramilitaries, religious nuts and God only knows what else, the police have nothing better to do than stick a tracker on your car so they can watch you go to the work, hit the grocery store and then go home. You aren’t of any meaning anyway! Influential politicians, cultural icons and heads of business might be of interest to a “big brother” style government, but you’re frankly small potatoes. I’ll gladly gain a modicum of freedom for a small plastic dealio on my car.

By: tennisaddict

tennisaddict — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:17:17 +0000

Seriously though, I think if you want to make an argument against this, you’ll have to go down the wrongness of attaching a piece of equipment to your property and not the wrongness of cops tracking you in public route. I think most of us have at some time been followed by a cop for some period of time while he/she was waiting for us to mess up or to check our plates. So, don’t get all upset about a cop following you with gps. Get mad about a cop using devices on your person or property instead. That is the slippery slope, not whether a cop can use technology to follow your whereabouts more accurately. Of course, personally, I believe that without a warrant, this is an invasion of privacy and a violation of due process rights. I think these tactics should only be used with some probable cause and a warrant, which is not the most difficult thing to get. Of course, its only hard to get a warrant without probable cause; so, if trouble getting a warrant is the cops’ argument, then they obviously don’t have enough reason to want to track you in the first place. This is not complicated, probable cause and warrant necessary for any gps tracking. That is all; make it so.

By: tennisaddict

tennisaddict — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:05:53 +0000

that picture is photoshopped. I cant tell by the pixels.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:33:00 +0000

If I ever found one….I’d either Keep it…or sell it =) think how many folks would like to get their hands on a police tracker

By: Lucas H

Lucas H — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:47:02 +0000

“its the same thing as a policeman tailing and following a suspects car.”
So that makes everyone a suspect? If one of these is put on my car I’m suddenly the suspect of some crime? This isn’t defending and serving the people this is a violation of civil rights. It’s bad enough in Europe, I refuse to let it spread to the land of the free.

Or perhaps we should get a new name for our nation.

By: VINCE

VINCE — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:23:02 +0000

I THINK THAT GOVERMENT AS A WHOLE IS A BUNCH OF SHIT. I LIVE IN THE SOUTHEAST AND THERE IS NO GAS, THAY BLAME IT ON THE PIPELINE GOT DAMAGED DURING THE STORM THAT HIT TEXAS, BUT WHO CONTROLS THE GAS THE FUCKING GOVERMENT! THEY CONTROL EVERTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH BIG MONEY JUST LIKE WALL STREET THEY ALLREADY CONTROL IT. THEY GET TO LIVE FAT AND TELL US WHAT TO DO AND CONTROL EVERYTHING ASSPECT OF THE HARD WORKING TAXPAYERS LIVES WHILE WE ARE THE ONES WHO PAY THEIR WAGES SO THEY CAN LIVE FAT. AS FAR AS THIS ELECTION GOES THERE IS NOBODY TO VOTE FOR THAT IS WORTH A SHIT!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPEN TO GOD BLESS AMERCIA????????????

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:09:14 +0000

Why not surreptitiously place a GPS device on individuals police wish to keep tabs on? After all, that would be “no different” than a plain clothes cop tailing a person.

I think part of the difference is that we assume there is no problem with individual police tailing individuals because of the scarcity of police officers, relative to the population. That scarcity is the reality we deal with and the context in which we evaluate the legitimacy of police actions. With things as they are, we can assume the police must prioritize and surveil only those legitimately under suspicion.

A GPS tracking device on a vehicle (or person) changes everything. It is completely different than assigning a police officer to track an individual. Mass producing these would mean the reality we would be living with is all of us being tracked.

Analogies only work when the context is the same. The police’s argument for the gratuitous use of GPS trackers is completely fallacious — and ludicrous.

By: teh heckler

teh heckler — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:12:37 +0000

I think this is horseshit and goes to further press that proganda that giving up a little liberty for security is ok.

“Those who surrender a little liberty for a little security forfiet both and gain neither.”

-One of the founding fathers-

You may be only marginally unhappy with the US government now… but there will reach a point where it won’t matter and items like this will silence those who speak out. Mark my words. I’m sure the goverment pencil pushers are.

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By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:12:57 +0000

That’s why they’re putting toll booths all across America’s bridges and state boundaries, so they can track you from state to state.