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Calgary Police Cellphone Surveillance Device Must Remain Top Secret, Judge Rules (www.cbc.ca)
Freshly Exhumed writes from a report via CBC.ca: To protect police investigative techniques that may or may not have been used in a Calgary Police Service investigation, their controversial cellphone surveillance device will remain so secretive not even the make and model can be released to the public, according to a court ruling released Monday. The MDI (Mobile Device Identifier) technology -- colloquially called a StingRay after Harris Corporation's IMSI device, which mimics cell towers and intercepts data from nearby phones -- is controversial in part because in at least one Canadian case, prosecutors have taken watered down plea deals rather than disclose information related to the device.
Reading a book rather than watching television with other potential jurors also used to work very well. In the Boston area court systems, enough jurors were called for jury duty to handle every case that day. Very, very few cases ever received a jury, they were almost all settled or continued. But if you wanted to avoid actually hearing a case, bringing a *book*, reading it, and not staring at the idiot box suspended on the wall was one of the best ways to avoid duty. The attorneys *always* found an excuse to visit the jury waiting area, just to get a look at the jury pool. The only way more certain to avoid jury duty was to mention that you knew about jry nullification, in which case the judge would seek an excuse to fine you for contempt of court and try to make sure you *never* did jury duty.
Oh how quaint that you think the Canadian Charter is somehow stronger than the US Constitution. First off, the Charter grants rights while the Constitution enumerates rights that already inherently exist for people. Second, the Charter can be changed by a simple majority in Parliament at a whim and the rulings of the supreme Court overruled by the "Notwithstanding clause" and "Limitations Clause"...
Here are the facts about Canada and your supposed "rights":
There is no first amendment right - not to assemble (Riot Act), not to freedom of speech (why the idiot handing out anti-gay pamphlets in Regina was forced to pay $15k for offending five gay families).
There is no second amendment right - not even to defend yourself in your home.
There is no third amendment right - the government could pass a law to quarter infantry and it is perfectly constitutional.
There is no fourth amendment or sixth amendment right as this article shows.
Your executive branch is a figurehead and symbolic. Your Senate is unelected and a rubber stamp. I can keep going on and on about Canada but your attempt to even compare the two systems of government is simply not going to work for anyone willing to look past the "nice Canadian" trope.
Texas is not remotely fascist, in fact it's pretty loose as far as laws are concerned. Basically, leave people the hell alone and you'll have a good time there. Californians are voting with their feet and leaving the workers' paradise. You simply don't know enough to criticize accurately, you've got some imaginary idea in your head and you criticize that. This happens a lot among leftists. Self-described leftists (or progressives) and conservatives were asked to describe how the other side would think of the issues. The conservatives proved to be pretty good at describing the left-liberals' positions, while the liberals were much worse at characterizing what their ideological opponents thought. http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
I also love the "they're like Texans, but they have cowboy hats and boots." Need I say more about the ignorance department?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Is there anyone left who doesn't realize that Cellphones at the hardware level are designed as surveillance and tracking devices? If you are doing anything you think the government might not like, you'd best rid yourself of these trackers. Put it in a lead box at the least.
A StingRay II System Kit with AmberJack-W, you say?
It would be unfortunate if people started mentioning that without considering how it might hurt the cops' feelings.
In that case they'd probably be heartbroken to learn that the complete manual set, schematic diagrams, and parts layout drawings and part # list has been up at various locations on the dark web for many months, along with several other models/makes of IMSI-catchers used by various governments and LEAs worldwide.
One very scary aspect of nearly all commercial IMSI-catchers is that they can 'impersonate' any cellphone it's captured to cellphone towers. They can cause the cell-provider's logs to show 'that phone' connected from wherever they like and transmitting whatever they wish, even CP.
"When 'Parallel Construction' just doesn't get the job done because he's totally innocent nor violates enough laws and civil rights..."
Funny thing is... every time I've been to Texas I've been amazed at how many regulations there are on personal behavior. Toll roads with tracking technology, red light cameras everywhere, dumbass laws on where you can't buy a drink that make the idiocy that is Florida look sane.
Now, if you want to under pay people, run a business with no worker protections, pollute the environment without consequence, have religious preferences turned into bullshit medical regulations, have religiously censored textbooks, and generally have the illusion of freedom while actually being pretty tightly controlled--Texas is absolutely your ideal place to live.