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Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These
jamie writes "A comment posted to a website got its author's *friend's* car an unwanted aftermarket addon. The Orion Guardian ST820, a GPS tracking device, was attached to the underside of the car by the FBI. No warrant required. The bugged friend, a college student studying marketing, was apparently under suspicion because he's half-Egyptian. As Bruce Schneier says, 'If they're doing this to someone so tangentially connected to a vaguely bothersome post on an obscure blog, just how many of us have tracking devices on our cars right now ...' The ACLU is investigating." This follows up on our earlier mention of the same student, who turned the tracking device over to the FBI.
But then there's always the possibility that he actually IS a terrorist. We only have his word that he's a law-abiding citizen, and no evidence at all that his friend's post is related to the tracking device.
Try this on my property, you WILL get shot. No warrant, not invited, attempting to tamper with something of mine means risking lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.
Ignore the Constitution by taking some judge's opinion over the written law at your own risk.
I think the phrase your looking for is "accidentally shooting them for trespassing".
"All religious extremism has this same type of stupidity." You have a typo...'religious extremism' should be 'religion'. Thanks MGMT
A real terrorist doesn't need to see what a 747 looks like when it lands, so all this is is some government idiot who's decided it'll be fun to harass innocent people.
Apparently the word "reconnaissance" is completely foreign to you. (pun kinda intended)
Now I'm wondering if such comments haven't gotten a tracking device installed on *my* car ;)
No, we did not place any tracking devices on your car. Whatever you do, do NOT disassemble your transmission in order to look for a tracking device, because it will not be there. Also, there are no, I repeat NO listening or observation devices of any kind in your TV, computer monitor, water heater, and beneath the floor-boards of every room. Rest assured good citizen: nobody is watching you.
So let's say I reasonably believe someone tampering with my car was doing something to damage my life or body by tampering with a complex system which involves several hundred parts dedicated explicitly to safety features by the manufacturer. Am I allowed to protect my life from you disabling my brakes, putting an explosive under my seat, putting fragile spark-throwing devices in my fuel tank, or removing the recall-fix shim from my accelerator?
You really think a fucking lawsuit is going to help here?
Jeez, nigga, you DUMB.