June 25, 201412 yr How can the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agree on anything? It has come to be a sign of the coming of the Apocalypse.
June 25, 201412 yr I agree with the decision with one reservation. I believe that within one's own home, it should be legal to intercept any radio signal on any frequency, provided the content of conversations is not shared with others. My reasoning is that the government has access to radio equipment with continuous frequency coverages, including cell phone frequencies and no warrant is required to purchase the equipment. Private citizens should be able to acquire any type of radio receiver that the government can purchase. I agree that the right to transmit radio signals should be tightly regulated, as it already is. The idea that the government can keep transmissions private by banning the reception of certain frequencies is a dangerous one. If the public is banned from monitoring certain frequencies, then law enforcement agencies should be required to obtain warrants to listen to the same frequencies.
June 25, 201412 yr How is a DUI checkpoint different in your mind? Because it's not an invasion into almost every aspect of someone's life and is just a momentary stop to make sure you aren't drunk, you have a legal license, and you don't have any warrants out on you. If you don't, you are probably on your way. Let someone go through your phone and they practically know your life story.
June 25, 201412 yr Because it's not an invasion into almost every aspect of someone's life and is just a momentary stop to make sure you aren't drunk' date=' you have a legal license, and you don't have any warrants out on you. If you don't, you are probably on your way. Let someone go through your phone and they practically know your life story.[/quote'] So small invasions without cause are okay? Edited June 26, 201412 yr by Clyde
June 25, 201412 yr Not really worried about DUI checkpoints (although Texans vehemently oppose them and they aren't something that's really caught on here), but to anyone who says, "if you don't have anything to hide" to things like cell phone searches, the NSA, etc., I say, "if you have nothing to hide, give me your username and password to your online banking site". Not having anything to hide and trusting you, are two completely different things:lol2:
June 25, 201412 yr Tell me if this analogy fits. 25 years ago if you were arrested outside of your office/home, the police would need a warrant to go search your files, rolodex, notes. Today all this info may be on your phone, so would the justices view the need for a warrant to look at phone, just as they would have seen a need for a warrant to search your office/home 25 years ago.
June 26, 201412 yr Police don't need a warrant..... If they have consent from the owner.. They don't tell suspects this.
June 26, 201412 yr Tell me if this analogy fits. 25 years ago if you were arrested outside of your office/home, the police would need a warrant to go search your files, rolodex, notes. Today all this info may be on your phone, so would the justices view the need for a warrant to look at phone, just as they would have seen a need for a warrant to search your office/home 25 years ago. Makes sense to me.
June 26, 201412 yr So small invasions without cause are okay? I see where you're going with it, but I'm not really viewing it that much differently than an invasion of you having to go the DMV and get a license, or showing your ID to buy a 6 pack or get into a bar. If it were an everyday thing, I'd think of it differently, but I'm not sure that I think of roadblock that's announced beforehand on the 4th of July weekend (or at a similar time) in the same vein.
June 26, 201412 yr How is a DUI checkpoint different in your mind? A DUI checkpoint is not the same as a search warrant. It allows an officer to stop a driver to verify drivers' licenses & vehicles' registrations. A driver does not forfeit any 4th Amendment rights, nor are the police given permission to perform unreasonable searches or seizures. Sobriety checkpoints are also used to remove drunk drivers from the highways. As we all recognize, drunk driving is a significant threat to highway safety. The bottom line is that a sobriety checkpoint promotes a very strong public policy: highway safety. Searching somebody's cell phone is way too invasive without any benefit to the general public.
June 26, 201412 yr I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Meaning cops use that to get unsuspecting rubes to tell on themselves. But you knew that already.
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