Caught on the reef… “The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:…But, what do we do when government sees the people as the potential enemy. Governments are no more than people aligned by ideology. They see enemies behind every action, every protest, and every statement in controversy to the government’s actions. These are individual’s actions, but they’re still violations of a common trust developed and espoused in the Constitution of the United States of America and its Bill of Rights.”

Caught on the reef

Canada Free Press ^ | June 11, 2013 | Sarge

Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:37:53 AM by EXCH54FE

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The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Obama White House spying on half of America… “Shortly after the Constitutional Convention completed its work in Philadelphia in 1787, legend has it that a vagrant approached Benjamin Franklin and asked him what the Convention produced. He reportedly answered “A republic, Sir, if you can keep it.” Thursday morning we learned that the Republic has been lost. It is now a dictatorship.”… Judge Napolitano…

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“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, quoted in full above, was written to guarantee what the Framers called “the right to be let alone,” and what we have come to call “the right to privacy.”

The Supreme Court has ruled consistently and repeatedly that its contemporary purposes are to prevent dragnets and fishing expeditions, lest the rights of the innocent be assaulted along with those of the guilty.

Rand Paul to Introduce Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013

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Rand Paul to Introduce Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013

 

Reason ^ | Jun. 6, 2013 | Mike Riggs

 

 

 

Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 9:57:21 AM by Qbert

 

 

In the wake of reports that the NSA has collected millions of phone records from Verizon customers, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced today that he will introduce the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013 tomorrow, Friday, June 7. Here’s the release from Paul’s office:

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul today announced he will introduce the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013, which ensures the Constitutional protections of the Fourth Amendment are not violated by any government entity.

 

 

 

Hundreds of Gunowners Show up in Temple, TX with Loaded Guns At the “Come and Take it” March | Alternative… ““While out hiking with my son through backcountry roads to help him earn his Eagle Scout rank, I was illegally arrested and disarmed without cause. I was thrown in jail and my lawfully owned weapons were confiscated without receipt or notice,” -Grisham”

(Before It’s News)

This past weekend Hundreds of Gunowners staged a successful armed march in Temple, TX with Loaded Weapons At the “Come and Take it March”.

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Intellihub.com

June 4, 2013

A week ago this notice was posted by concerned gun owners in the state of Texas:

 

 

 

 

We will be gathering for a legal armed open carry march to raise public awareness of gun laws in Texas.

 

It is partially in response to the Temple Police Department violating the Second and Fourth Amendment rights of Active Duty MSGT Christopher J. Grisham HERE. Please join us all. We will be exercising our rights as free men and women. Be part of the solution. All permits and armed march route has been approved and coordinated with the city and local authorities. Come out for music, great speakers, food and a march around the police station and town square.

When: June 1st

Judge Napolitano on Obama’s War Against the Fourth Amendment – Hit & Run : Reason.com

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Judge Napolitano on Obama’s War Against the Fourth Amendment

 

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The Obama administration wants legislation enacted that will punish Internet service providers who fail to cooperate with FBI requests and court orders.

 

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The FBI has revealed that its agents often “lack the time” to obtain search warrants, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano, and so they have gotten into the bad habit of asking Internet service providers to let them in without warrants.View this article.

 

 

 

The Most Unconstitutional Law in American History…..

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…..Your smartphone’s GPS will even share your exact location so the government will know whether you’ve joined one of those “domestic terrorist” groups.

 

 

 

And on top of that, the bill furnishes these private companies with immunity from lawsuits. CISPA typifies a disturbing form of corporatism, where companies surrender all obligations to protect your privacy in exchange for litigation protection.

 

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Companies can now be held harmless, irrespective of the hurt caused by divulging information to the government.

 

 

 

DHS Dry run? Choppers Low Fly Over Bourbon Street

DHS Dry run? Choppers Low Fly Over Bourbon Street

 

Youtube ^ | 4/15/2013 | Youtube

 

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Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:26:24 AM by chemicalman

 

Chopper flying low over Burbon Street in New Orleans caught on video. See link @ Youtube.

 

DHS dry run?

 

 

 

Judge Napolitano And Shep Smith Take On IRS E-Mail Snooping Without Warrants: ‘Stay Out Of Our Stuff!’ | Mediaite

With Tax Day less than a week away, Fox News reported this afternoon on the American Civil Liberties Union obtaining IRS documents via the Freedom of Information Act that show the federal tax collection agency routinely searches Americans’ emails, possibly in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable search and seizures.

 

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Reporter Jonathan Hunt noted to host Shepard Smith that the controversy over the Internal Revenue Service’s practices largely stems from the fact that the agency uses an “administrative summons” to decide to search an email without a search warrant or any form of court order.

 

 

 

IRS: We can read emails without warrant (Where’s the American Outrage?)

IRS: We can read emails without warrant (Where’s the American Outrage?)

 

 

 

The Hill ^ | 04/11/2013 | Brendan Sasso

 

 

 

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Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:24:02 PM by SeekAndFind

 

 

 

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people’s emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.

 

 

 

 

 

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday.

 

 

 

(Gunny G: Please, Read Reader Responses, Folks!) ~ IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant [Obama Treats 4th Amendment Like Toilet Paper]

IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant [Obama Treats 4th Amendment Like Toilet Paper]

 

CNET ^ | 4/10/13

 

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Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:47:49 AM by SoFloFreeper

 

The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications.

 

 

 

The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t believe it needs a search warrant to read your e-mail.

 

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Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers say that Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and similar online communications — meaning that they can be perused without obtaining a search warrant signed by a judge.

 

 

 

(The GubMint Does Not Give Us Free Speech!) ~No More Asking for Permission To Speak… by Andrew P. Napolitano

In 1798, when John Adams was president of the United States, the feds enacted four pieces of legislation called the Alien and Sedition Acts. One of these laws made it a federal crime to publish any false, scandalous or malicious writing – even if true – about the president or the federal government, notwithstanding the guarantee of free speech in the First Amendment.

 

 

 

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The feds used these laws to torment their adversaries in the press and even successfully prosecuted a congressman who heavily criticized the president. Then-Vice President Thomas Jefferson vowed that if he became president, these abominable laws would expire. He did, and they did, but this became a lesson for future generations: The guarantees of personal freedom in the Constitution are only as valuable and reliable as is the fidelity to the Constitution of those to whom we have entrusted it for safekeeping.

 

 

 

The Constitution Repealed in Ten States

The Constitution Repealed in Ten Stateshttp://www.christianpost.com/ ^ | February 11, 2013 | Judson PhillipsPosted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:23:25 PM by B4RanchYour constitutional rights have been repealed in ten states. No, this isn’t a joke. It is not exaggeration or hyperbole. If you are in ten states in the United States, your some of your rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights have been made null and void.

 

And it is not just those ten states. Those are just the states where everyone who lives in those states has lost some of their constitutional rights. The sad truth is that there are only fourteen states where this stripping of the rights of American citizens has not happened.What is going on?The government has declared a one hundred mile zone around the United States borders to be a part of the border zone exception from the Fourth Amendment’s freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.The Fourth Amendment states:

 

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.Historically there has always been an exemption from the Fourth Amendment requirement at the nation’s borders.

 

This Is How We Resist *Video*

This Is How We Resist *Video*

 

SHTF Plan ^ | Mac Slavo

 

Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:16:31 PM by blam

 

This Is How We Resist *Video*

 

Mac Slavo

 

February 28th, 2013

 

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It should be clear by now that the Federal government, through various agencies like the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, is rapidly moving towards a legal model that aims to strip fundamental rights traditionally protected by the Constitution of the United States.

 

The Second Amendment is and has been under fire for quite some time, but what many Americans fail to realize is that the attack on our right to bear arms is only part of a much broader plan, one that aims to quietly kill any semblance of liberty we have left.

 

 

 

 

 

The Fourth Amendment, which protects an individual’s right to be secure in their own person and home is as important as the right to speak freely and defend one’s self, yet it is being eroded without respite.

 

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At some point in the last couple of decades there was a shift in how the justice system deals with average citizens. No longer is there a presumption of innocence on the part of police or prosecutors. In the eyes of the government, we’re all guilty of something, a position that has left countless Americans imprisoned or dead for no other reason than the arresting officer or government attorney wanting to stroke their ego or increase their conviction rate.

 

The Right To Be Left Alone, Etc…… « AMERICAN BLOGGER: GUNNY.G ~ WEBLOG & EMAIL

The Right to Be Left Alone

 

by Mark Skousen

 

http://www.mskousen.com/Books/Articles/0205alone.html

 

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“The makers of the Constitution conferred the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by all civilized men—the right to be let alone.”

 

-JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS

 

According to Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, one of the “repeated injuries and usurpations” committed against the American people by the King of England was the erecting of “a multitude of New Offices, and . . . swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

 

Today, following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the American people face another troublesome threat—swarms of security agents harassing us at airports, borders, buildings, and highways. Like many of you who travel frequently, my wife, Jo Ann, and I have been subjected to these often overzealous security guards who ask inane questions; force us to remove our shoes, jackets, and belt buckles; and meticulously go through our carry-on bags. I’ve had my fingernail clippers confiscated twice. Jo Ann was frisked three times in one day. Others have fared far worse. My friend and IOL fellow columnist Walter Williams was almost arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, after he refused to be patted down. A congressman was required to disrobe. After these security encounters, I always feel my privacy, indeed my dignity, has been violated.

 

President George W. Bush has urged citizens to return to normal life, but business and domestic affairs are never the same when a war is on, and this war on terrorism is no exception.1 Bush’s proposed federal budget jumped 9 percent from last year, pushing the United States into a deficit again. Private enterprise has been forced to spend billions on security measures, a real burden on a recessionary economy. (Imagine, intelligent employees spending the rest of their lives trying to catch some nut out there, representing 1/1000 of 1 percent of travelers.) Airport security has now become federalized. And we have become, in the words of Sheldon Richman, “tethered citizens.”

 

In revolutionary times, colonists were so incensed by the invasions of privacy and other personal abuses by British officers that Congress’s first act was to pass a Bill of Rights, including Amendment III, “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law,” and Amendment IV, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

 

TV Stations May Start Using Military Drones Like ‘Any Other Type of News-Gathering Equipment’ :

 

The Camcopter, a drone developed for military use by Austria’s Schiebel Corporation, could very well be used by television stationsand other journalists to gather news in the very near future.

 

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Considering the rise of the use of military drones in concert with law enforcement, the undeniable increase in domestic drone operations and pending explosive growth of drone use in the United States, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised to see drones being used in news gathering as well.

 

According to a recent article by TV News Check, drones could be used in the newsgathering process as early as 2015 thanks to the legislation accelerating the integration of drones into the U.S. national airspacepassed earlier this year.

 

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The Schiebel Corporation has partnered with Brain Farm and Snaproll Media, both U.S. companies, in order to turn the Camcopter into a platform capable of capturing high-definition, broadcast-qualityfootage.

 

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Some clearly see a bright future for the use of drones in various commercial applications and especially in the field of journalism.

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism professor Matt Waite was given a $50,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to start up the “Drone Journalism Lab” last November.

 

The Deadly Drone Attached on your House

 

Once a week I check with bated breath my conventional meter attached to the side of my house.

 

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I want to make sure no smart meter had been installed in my absence and without my permission. I have written to my utility companythat I do not wish to have a smart meter installed, I mailed the letter return receipt requested to make sure that they cannot claim non-receipt.

 

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Senator Rand Paul’s Bill to Protect Citizens From Drone Surveillance

When Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced his bill in June, he was responding to growing concerns over privacy by

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American citizens. The purpose of his bill is elegantly simple: “To protect individual privacy against unwarranted governmental intrusion through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles commonly called drones.” Paul’s bill is very specific:

[A] person or entity acting under the authority [of], or funded in whole or in part by, the Government of the United States shall not use a drone to gather evidence or other information pertaining to criminal conduct or conduct in violation of a statute or regulation except to the extent authorized in a warrant that satisfies the requirements of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Paul explained that “Americans going about their everyday lives should not be treated like criminals or terrorists and have their rights infringed upon by military tactics.”

Prison Planet.com » Video: Man Refuses To Comply With Internal Checkpoints

Score one for the Fourth Amendment

Paul Joseph Watson

Using the excuse of attempting to apprehend illegal immigrants, Border Patrol agents have set up a network of unconstitutional checkpoints inside the United States. In this video clip, informed citizen Steven Anderson provides a sterling example of how to stand up for your rights and prove that such checkpoints are unenforceable because they violate the 4th amendment.

Traveling through California, Anderson encountered numerous internal checkpoints. When Border Patrol agents attempted to detain him for questioning, Anderson refused, citing his right as an American citizen to “go free on my way.”

How Many Checkpoints in One Morning?! Welcome to the Police State!

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How Many Checkpoints in One Morning?! Welcome to the Police State!

You Tube ^ | July 9, 2012 | sanderson1611

Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:48:12 PM by Errant

Must See Video – Expect this to go viral!

Prison Planet.com » The TSA & Military Declare War on American Liberties

On the Friday, July 6 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers the latest police state antics by the Transportation Security Administration, including testing drinks and an insane policy that will require travelers to “freeze” upon command, a control freak plan once again revealing that the nation’s airports have indeed become Gestapo zones where the Fourth Amendment is dead and mean-spirited sadists rule.

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Rand Paul Tries To Shoot Down Drone Surveillance

National Security: The junior senator from Kentucky seeks to protect the Fourth Amendment from the advance of technology and require that all forms of surveillance by law enforcement require a warrant from a judge.

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Does the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures include aerial surveillance of your house and property? Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., thinks so.

Prison Planet.com » Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Highway Checkpoints Illegal

Warrantless checkpoints in the city of Liberty, Kentucky that were used by authorities to interrogate drivers who refused to display a sticker in their vehicle have been ruled unconstitutional by the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Prison Planet.com » Supreme Court Rules Strip Searches OK for Minor Offenses

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Supreme Court Rules Strip Searches OK for Minor Offenses

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April 2, 2012

In a 5 to 4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it is permissible for jailers to strip search people arrested and jailed on minor offenses, even if they have not violated the law.

Supreme Court Rules Strip Searches OK for Minor Offenses 57060066.Image21Justice Kennedy wrote for the majority when he said that when an arrested person is to be put into the general jail population, “courts must defer to the judgment of correctional officials unless the record contains substantial evidence showing their policies are an unnecessary or unjustified response to problems of jail security.”

Justice Stephen Breyer dissented. He said strip searches improperly “subject those arrested for minor offenses to serious invasions of their personal privacy.”

Is the CIA in Your Kitchen? by Andrew P. Napolitano

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If this question had been asked by a fictional character in a spy thriller, it might intrigue you, but you wouldn’t imagine that it could be true in reality. If the Constitution means what it says, you wouldn’t even consider the plausibility of an affirmative answer. After all, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution was written to prevent the government from violating on a whim or a hunch or a vendetta that uniquely American right: the right to be left alone.

Slip-Sliding Into Tyranny: The New American Way by Charles Goyette

Pay close attention. This is how it happens…

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President Obama found a moment of reduced visibility, in an unwatched hour on New Year’s Eve, to sign the latest assault on the Fifth Amendment. In signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 on New Year’s Eve, Obama knew the nation’s attention would be elsewhere, diverted by revelry, football, New Year’s Day, and a Monday national holiday.

In case you haven’t heard, the National Defense Authorization Act allows the government to detain people indefinitely – yes, it includes American citizens who can be taken even on our native soil and imprisoned – merely on the basis of accusations.

The measure is “so radical,” says Human Rights Watch, “that it would have been considered crazy had it been pushed by the Bush administration.” And although Obama appended a signing statement as he put his name to the act, solemnly assuring the nation that the power he insisted on having won’t be used recklessly, it is a political gesture that has no more force of a law than attaching a little yellow sticky note to the bill. If the clear language of the Constitution itself cannot bind the governing classes, it is hard to imagine a post-it note having much effect on the current or future presidents now that the indefinite detention of Americans without trial has been legislatively countenanced.

There you have it in a nutshell, the new American way: Guilty until proven innocent.

This is how once-free people slip into state tyranny and slide into martial law.

Political figures are always careful to paper over their power grabs with spurious legalities and midnight measures, granting themselves the rights they are appropriating. No matter how flimsy the pretext, no matter how forbidden the act, everything must be formalized and enabled. Overturned rights and the pretext of legality.

That is how the Fourth Amendment was trashed… marginalized by a document called the Patriot Act.

And now the Fifth Amendment is under attack.

Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul Is The Only Presidential Candidate Who Gets It

The recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the reaction–or better, lack of reaction–by the GOP’s Presidential candidates is a perfect example of how it will not matter to a Tinker’s Dam which Republican candidate wins the nomination, unless that candidate is Congressman Ron Paul.

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This is what so many people within the so-called Religious Right and establishment GOP just do not understand: they do not understand the fact that America is in the throes of a burgeoning police state. They have buried their heads in the sand for so long that they wouldn’t know what tyranny looked like if it came up and bit them on their blessed assurance! They have totally drunk the propaganda Kool Aid that purports that the biggest threat to our liberties comes from the Sand People. Our Founding Fathers were a much wiser lot, of course. They understood perfectly that the biggest threat to our liberties comes from Washington, D.C., not Baghdad, or Tehran, or any other foreign entity.

Rep. Paul says defense bill assures ‘descent into totalitarianism’

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul warned that the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by Congress this month, will accelerate the country’s “slip into tyranny” and virtually assures “our descent into totalitarianism.”

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“The founders wanted to set a high bar for the government to overcome in order to deprive an individual of life or liberty,” Paul, the libertarian congressman, said Monday in a weekly phone message to supporters. “To lower that bar is to endanger everyone. When the bar is low enough to include political enemies, our descent into totalitarianism is virtually assured. The Patriot Act, as bad as its violations against the Fourth Amendment was, was just one step down the slippery slope. The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act continues that slip into tyranny, and in fact, accelerates it significantly.”

What Will We Say? by Eric Peters ~ “Coming? The Warrantless ‘Security Check’ of “

Coming? The Warrantless ‘Security Check’ of Your Home
That’s not far-fetched or paranoid, says Eric Peters. Indeed, it’s already begun.

 

…It is a serious question, not (as I will be accused of purveying) exaggerated or paranoiac. After all, we are already told specifically that we have no legal expectation of privacy when we’re out in public and it’s been implicit for years now that we have very little left in the way of Fourth Amendment rights anywhere – even in our own homes. See, for example, the recent Indiana Supreme Court decision that a homeowner has no right to resist even an illegal, warrantless and probable cause-free entry by cops. A cop, possibly psychotic, without doubt armed and packing the state’s authority to administer lethal violence – can literally kick in your door, for absolutely no lawful reason whatsoever – and if the homeowner resists, it is the homeowner who is in violation of The Law. If, say, you are asleep in bed and are awakened suddenly by the sound of your door being kicked in and you – fearing for your life – grab the pistol you keep by your bed and shoot the unknown berserker, it’s you who will go to prison!

Massachusetts Case Will Set Precedent Regarding Videotaping Of Cops

Massachusetts Case Will Set Precedent Regarding Videotaping Of Cops

06-30-2011 • http://www.pixiq.com

Four years ago, Boston police officers arrested a man for videotaping them making an arrest in a public park.

They charged Simon Glik with felony wiretapping, disturbing the peace and aiding the escape of a prisoner – even though all he did was hold up a video camera – and the man they were arresting did not escape.

The charges were quickly dropped and Glik eventually filed a lawsuit for false arrest, claiming his First and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated.

The police officers filed a motion to dismiss his complaint on the basis on “qualified immunity,” which is their way of claiming they had no idea videotaping cops in public was completely legal.

A judge denied that motion and they appealed, which brought the issue back to court last week.

Now another judge will decide whether the cops will be granted qualified immunity, which would set a legal precedent that cops can basically make unlawful arrests of citizens who videotape them without fear of repercussions.

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Protecting Fourth Amendment Wireless Rights

Protecting Fourth Amendment Wireless Rights

Protecting Fourth Amendment Wireless Rights: “…Primarily, the GPS Act would require that government agencies demonstrate probable cause and obtain a warrant before being allowed access to an individual’s geolocation information. It also defines exceptions for requiring a warrant, including in national emergencies (mirroring existing wiretapping law), the monitoring of children by their parents, and emergency calling systems (e.g., 9-1-1).

The GPS Act is vitally important not only to protect 4th Amendment rights, but also to provide clear, consistent, and understandable standards for law enforcement and wireless carriers. Without it, the government will maintain its vague and near limitless authority over the wireless data of American citizens. It’s introduction follows a similar bill introduced by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that expands ECPA law to cover online cloud computing services, where personal data is stored on systems owned by third parties…

via BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984(+): Protecting Fourth Amendment Wireless Rights.

Pulling plug on privacy; How technology helped make the 4th Amendment obsolete

Pulling plug on privacy; How technology helped make the 4th Amendment obsolete

Pulling plug on privacy; How technology helped make the 4th Amendment obsolete:

“So why haven’t you heard about it?

Because you’re the murderer. We all are. Our weapon of choice? Most recently, the smartphone, which, with our collective blessing, allows law enforcement to monitor our real-time geographic location. Although a bill recently proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would require police to obtain a warrant before turning our cellphones into tracking devices, such legislation may come too late to save the Fourth Amendment from this fatal blow.

It started with the supermarket loyalty programs

via BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984(+): Pulling plug on privacy; How technology helped make the 4th Amendment obsolete.

Debate Over: The United States has official entered the annuls of history as a Soviet-style police state/While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment

Debate Over: The United States has official entered the annuls of history as a Soviet-style police state/While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment

While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment

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Debate Over: The United States has official entered the annuls of history as a Soviet-style police state

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet.com

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Two recent Supreme Court cases have served to virtually abolish the Fourth Amendment in the United States of America, with citizens no longer being “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

In a precedent described by dissenting justices as “breathtaking” and “unnecessarily broad,” the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week in a 3-2 vote that doing anything to resist police busting down your door and conducting an illegal search is now a criminal act.

“[We] hold that the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law,” the court ruled in the case of Richard L. Barnes v. Indiana.

Dissenting Justices Brent E. Dickson and Robert D. Rucker made it clear that the ruling represented a total rejection of rights enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.

“In my view, the wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad,” Dickson wrote.

“In my view it is breathtaking that the majority deems it appropriate or even necessary to erode this constitutional protection based on a rationale addressing much different policy considerations,” added Rucker. “There is simply no reason to abrogate the common law right of a citizen to resist the unlawful police entry into his or her home.”

The ruling was made under the justification that resisting a police officer had the potential to escalate and cause violence against the officer, meaning that the God-like status bestowed upon police officers now trumps both the 220-year-old Fourth Amendment and the 796-year-old Magna Carta on which it is based.

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COPS TO HIJACK CITIZENS’ CELL PHONE DATA

COPS TO HIJACK CITIZENS’ CELL PHONE DATA

COPS TO HIJACK CITIZENS’ CELL PHONE DATA

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri

Posted 1:00 AM Eastern

April 23, 2011

© 2011 NewsWithViews.com

Imagine driving in your automobile with your family on a bright, summer day and you hear a police cruiser‘s siren and the officer motions for you to pull over. The police officer walks up to your car and says hello using your full name without seeing your license.

Not only that, he requests your cellular phone, and within seconds knows your home address, workplace, work-related telephone numbers, pictures and personal Internet information. Welcome to the 21st Century.

If what’s happening in Michigan becomes the model for the rest of the country, Americans are in for a big surprise when they discover their secrets aren’t so secret anymore thanks to modern technology, say national security and civil rights professionals.

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WHAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANS…”That’s what “keep and bear” means – own and carry.””

Free RepublicBrowse · Search Pings · Mail News/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments.WHAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANSboblonsberry.com ^ | 01/30/11 | Bob LonsberryPosted on Monday, January 31, 2011 8:51:21 AM by shortstopI believe in the Second Amendment.I believe that when it says “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” that it means exactly that.I believe it is an individual right – just like the rights listed through most of the Bill of Rights – and that it specifically means Americans have a constitutional right to own and carry guns.That’s what “keep and bear” means – own and carry.I believe it as absolute and important a right as the freedom of speech or religion or the press. It stands next to the right to a jury trial and the protection against cruel and unusual punishment. It is as precious as our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure and our Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and uncompensated government taking of our property.The Constitution isn’t a buffet. Government can’t pick and choose which parts it wants to follow. It is, every bit of it, our founding and defining document, and governmental disregard for it is a fundamental act of tyranny.I believe the Second Amendment is a civil right and the effort to protect the right to keep and bear arms is a civil rights movement.But not everyone feels that way.Snide politicians and professors and pontificators claim that the Second Amendment is about the National Guard, that it is a right given to states, not individuals. They claim that somehow the Founding Fathers thought slipping a states rights issue into a listing of individual rights was a good idea. They claim that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant that states were authorized to have maintain armies.I think that’s a bunch of crap.I think it’s typically a purposeful distortion of the historic record and common sense in an effort to advance a political agenda. I think people put forward that twisted interpretation of the Second Amendment because they don’t agree with the Second Amendment. They think the people ought not to have guns.And they are free to think that.But they are not free to subvert or pervert the Constitution. Any federal official who does so is violating his oath of office.I believe that the best way to understand what the Second Amendment means today is to look at what it meant when it was written. To help do that, I would like to refer to a document produced in Poughkeepsie, New York, in July of 1788.

WHAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANS = “That’s what “keep and bear” means – own and carry.”

Free RepublicBrowse · Search Pings · Mail News/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments.WHAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANSboblonsberry.com ^ | 01/30/11 | Bob LonsberryPosted on Monday, January 31, 2011 8:51:21 AM by shortstopI believe in the Second Amendment.I believe that when it says “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” that it means exactly that.I believe it is an individual right – just like the rights listed through most of the Bill of Rights – and that it specifically means Americans have a constitutional right to own and carry guns.That’s what “keep and bear” means – own and carry.I believe it as absolute and important a right as the freedom of speech or religion or the press. It stands next to the right to a jury trial and the protection against cruel and unusual punishment. It is as precious as our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure and our Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and uncompensated government taking of our property.The Constitution isn’t a buffet. Government can’t pick and choose which parts it wants to follow. It is, every bit of it, our founding and defining document, and governmental disregard for it is a fundamental act of tyranny.I believe the Second Amendment is a civil right and the effort to protect the right to keep and bear arms is a civil rights movement.But not everyone feels that way…

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“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”