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Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
pickens writes "Forbes reports that the same technology used at airport check points, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on US streets where law enforcement agencies have deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs. 'It's no surprise that governments and vendors are very enthusiastic about [the vans],' says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. 'But from a privacy perspective, it's one of the most intrusive technologies conceivable.' Rotenberg adds that the scans, like those in the airport, potentially violate the fourth amendment. 'Without a warrant, the government doesn't have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause,' Rotenberg says. 'If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.'"
Why do these people think that they can irradiate people just because they want to?
Quite simple really... It's because we let them. The ones that resist are a tiny minority, and doing so only raises the question of, "what are you trying to hide?" amongst the rest.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
"Like what?"
States hiring private companies to use spy vans? Cause government surely can't interfere with States. And after all, market will sort out anything.
Are you serious? I mean, he might say that he's an "unwavering supporter of the constitution," but that's likely a publicity stunt so that he can appear better than he really is.
"To suggest that Ron Paul would allow states to do anything they like, in violation of the constitution, is so stupid it's almost hard to believe you're not intentionally trolling."
Where's your evidence that he wouldn't? I'm not saying he would, I can't know the future, but judging from everything we've seen from politicians, it's likely he's just spouting off and trying to get a positive reputation.
Politicians are merely driven by their desire for money (mostly from corporations) and their lust for power. I haven't seen an exception to that, and until a system where the people *actually* get to vote on *everything* (especially actions that go against the constitution) the government does is put into place, this blatant disregard for the rights of the people are going to continue.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Ron Paul made it pretty clear that if he had been president instead of Lincoln, he would have let the slave states do what they want. Ron Paul isn't about constitutional government, he's a libertarian, which mainly means he's about the rich keeping their money and fuck everyone else.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The tea partiers? Noam Chomsky? I think W was a moderate, just not the kind of moderate that you wanted.