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Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance
Penurious Penguin writes "Your curtilage may be your castle, but 'open fields' are open game for law-enforcement and surveillance technology. Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant. What the police cannot do, their cameras can — without warrant or court oversight. An article at CNET recounts a case involving the DEA, a federal judge, and two defendants (since charged) who were subjected to video surveillance on private property without a warrant. Presumably, the 4th Amendment suffers an obscure form of agoraphobia further elucidated in the article."
I used to admire you guys for your Constitutional protections and strict rules on what the government can and can't do.
Now you're a bunch of pussies who accept this level of government intrusion. At every step, you're leading the charge into a surveillance society and Big Brother.
Now the rest of us are fucked.
Start using some of those guns you're so famous for. Your decline into a police state is appalling.
Life in prison for growing plants, fuck our legal system.
No, life in prison for knowingly and deliberately breaking the law. The stupidity of the law doesn't change the illegality of breaking it. If you don't like the law, "fuck our legal" system is just a juvenile way of whining about it. If more people dislike the law than like the law, the law will change. If it doesn't, well, your opinion is in the minority and them's the breaks.