Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking

Post by burgerbrain » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 2:57 PM UTC

digikata wrote: post #106

burgerbrain wrote: post #63

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Rand Paul has on numerous occasions spoken out against the TSA's use of pat downs...

I see no difference in principle between a search using someone's hands and search using X-rays. If one objects to rights violation during a pat-down, why doesn't the same objection apply to backscatter? A backscatter machine in some ways is even more intrusive than a pat down as it can generate higher resolution images, which can be saved. Furthermore, there is a small, but non-zero risk of bodily harm from the scan…

"I see no difference in principle between a search using someone's hands and search using X-rays."

Then you are hopelessly inhuman. The difference should be obvious, and likely cannot be explained if it is not.

Post by nknight » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 12:16 AM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #120

nknight wrote: post #117

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I have Asperger's Syndrome. This rests on something hazily known as the autism spectrum. It sits alongside other disorders such as Autism and Rett syndrome. There are millions of people with such disorders. Although we all have what you might describe as "autistic characteristics", our actual problems are different, and fall into various categories that have been established to aid understanding, coping, and treatmen…

Yet you still get "democrats" who lower taxes, start wars, and restrict liberty. Yet you still get "republicans" who raise taxes, increase the size of government, and create social programs. If you have blue visible light and mix it with red visible light, is it still called "red" or "blue"? Or is there a different name for it? Because it sure as hell isn't still blue.

If you mix a little red in with a little blue, you start shifting it out of "blue", but it's not abruptly "not blue".

No significant political party or other large group in history has ever demanded perfect adherence by all members to all aspects of platform or ideology, that doesn't mean the groups didn't exist.

I'm also not sure where you get the idea that lowering taxes is not a Democratic thing, or creating social programs is not a Republican thing. It sounds like you're getting your ideas of what the parties stand for solely from the loud-mouthed extremists.

The world is nuanced, that doesn't mean identifiable groups do not exist.

Re: Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking

Re: Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking