tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5852090803910579568..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: 'Standing up for Mr. Nesbitt,' tracking the cell-phone trackers, and other digital forensics storiesGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-67807010184447620082012-11-26T18:20:27.109-06:002012-11-26T18:20:27.109-06:00Anon 4:02, you are absolutely correct. When I wor...Anon 4:02, you are absolutely correct. When I worked for the Texas Civil Liberties Union in the 1970s, it was only the "radical liberals" who were warning against the "slippery slope." It was like nailing jello to a wall to get conservatives -- so called conservatives -- to pay attention to what was happening.<br /><br />In the eighties, not even Libertarians were paying attention. They, and their bastard offspring the Tea Party, were only concerned with the possibility that the government would take away their "stuff" -- their money, their stock, their guns and their second homes in the mountains. Talk to them about the Fourth Amendment, the growing police state, the slow but sure emasculation of the Fourth Amendment, and all you could get was blank stares and maybe some muttering about putting the bad guys -- the Willy Hortons -- in prison where they belong and supporting their local Sheriff. Civil liberties be damned if it was necessary to lock'em up.<br /><br />The primary thing that gives me hope now is that Libertarians, both left and right, main stream conservatives, and 60s and 70s left wing radicals -- the SDS of the present (Seniors For a Democratic Society) are starting to say the same things and starting to sound like they have some common ground.<br /><br />My current opinion -- subject to change as things go on -- is that the First Amendmenters, the Second Amendmenters, the Fourth and Fifth Amendmentners, and the Tenth Amendmenters really need to start talking with each other about details. It is about time for a Second Constitutional Congress to meet.dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15069433289543974812012-11-26T16:02:11.117-06:002012-11-26T16:02:11.117-06:00Well, what does anyone really expect? I think the...Well, what does anyone really expect? I think the term "Slippery Slope" could be applied to this story. Americans were perfectly OK with the tracking of people they FELT were dangerous, so when the government kept taking it to the next level, and the next and the next...then hell they are pretty much looking at anything they want to. Kind of like public registries. First Sex Offenders and now there are DUI, Arson, Animal Abuse, Domestic Abuse registries popping up. Do you think it will stop there? How long until there is a Bully Registry? A Bad Check Registry? It's not so far fetched.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-37745374268764815552012-11-26T15:28:35.037-06:002012-11-26T15:28:35.037-06:00The thought that the government knows so much abou...The thought that the government knows so much about me is scary. No wonder most people live in paranoia. I'm leaving the country. Just kidding. But really, it's scary.Ashley Casashttp://www.socialsecuritylawattorney.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-87147529128742776012012-11-26T13:00:37.365-06:002012-11-26T13:00:37.365-06:00I remain an advocate of pitching digital sabots in...I remain an advocate of pitching digital sabots into the digital machinery.<br /><br />cell action explosive ak 47 secret meeting jihad ied bring rpgdorannoreply@blogger.com