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College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It
mngdih writes with this excerpt from Wired:
"A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do. It took just 48 hours to find out: The device was real, the student was being secretly tracked and the FBI wanted their expensive device back ... His discovery comes in the wake of a recent ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals saying it's legal for law enforcement to secretly place a tracking device on a suspect's car without getting a warrant, even if the car is parked in a private driveway. ... 'We have all the information we needed,' they told him. 'You don't need to call your lawyer. Don't worry, you're boring.'"
Not that I disagree with you, but there is a pretty wide gap between saying something like this on the Internet and actually following through with it in the real world.
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The fact that there is such a wide gap there is a large problem with our country right now. It used to be that words MEANT something real. Now it's just spouting off on a semi-anonymous website where you don't have to have any balls to go with your bark. And then you can go back to doing whatever the government tells you and giving them 30% or more of every single paycheck without any resistance at all.
Not all life is cyber. Extra Income
It’s the 9th Circuit Court... nothing that comes out of there could possibly be idiotic enough to surprise me.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Remind me how that worked for the Blacks and Natives?
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