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Yeah, where exactly did our rights as citizens go? Last I heard, law enforcement was supposed to have just cause etc. As much as I am glad a drug dealer is in jail, it still rankles that we are behaving in a way that doesn't match up to our overall doctrine - America, land of the free - so what part of freedom says police should be able to put a tracking device on ANYBODY'S vehicle, with no JUST CAUSE, no comeback on them, no oversight. The problem with the judge saying it's OK is that it WILL be abused by the police - maybe not by the good cops, but the bad cops will use it to their advantage.]]>Aug 31st 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/That DA should be held accountable for bugging that car.
Slowly our rights are being taken away and its time for Americans to take control.
In Massachusetts a few years ago a DA sent a guy to jail. Well later when that DA was on his way home he got off the train and someone shot and killed him. To Bad :-)
The goverment has lost the war on drugs. Make them legal...
]]>Aug 31st 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Soon we'll be putting chips in newborns for their" own good" and no one will think any thing is wrong with it.
]]>Aug 31st 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/to late my friend,hositals are taking da from babies now and keeping it .most don't know they are doing it.]]>Sep 1st 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/
Otherwise known as "fruit of a poisonous tree".]]>Aug 31st 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 7:52PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Something to hide? Listen. The fact is the Constitution applies to all of us. If the guy is a suspect criminal, then it is up to law enforcement to do their job according to the law. Just because they suspect him of criminal activity, that does not give them the right to plant a device on his auto. Just as it does not give them to right to do the same to you or me. Love morons like you that feel that the Constitution applies only to a certain people and no one else. Read the Fourth Amendment. Never mind. You probably believe that the words: "life, liberty and the pursiut of happiness" are in the Constitution. (hint: they aint)]]>Aug 31st 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 11:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://autos.aol.com/article/police-can-track-car-via-gps/

here is more of the story, they did have reason to track him.]]>Aug 31st 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/I suppose that the rest of us American citizens can trespass onto other peoples property, alter their vehicles and track them too, including the police vehicles? What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Although I believe in supporting the police 100% this is wrong on so many levels, and the abuse that could occur is a very slippery slope. ]]>Aug 31st 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/Aug 31st 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/28/cops-dont-need-warrants-to-plant-gps-on-cars-federal-court-say/
How many Cops/Sherifffs/Deputies etc are little more than power mad bullies living out dreams of authority behind a badge?

I wouldn't say a lot - but everyone has heard a story or two. I knew of one in the town near where I grew up. He wound up being dismissed from the force for planting an illegal wiretap on his ex-wife's phone (she had filed a restraining order against him after some threats) . You're telling me that it should be LEGAL for him to plant a GPS on her car to know everywhere she went?

There is a reason for warrants. They are there to prove that there is a valid reason - a just cause - for police actions. It's NOT that hard to get a warrant for those cases that need them.]]>Aug 31st 2010 1:57PM