Comments on: Cal Supreme Court Tyranny https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/04/cal-supreme-court-tyranny/ Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/04/cal-supreme-court-tyranny/#comment-3478 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:11:02 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=12425#comment-3478 Andrew I’m guessing you’re either a cop or a cop wannabe. Whatever.
While the author used a DUI stop as an example, you do realize that a LEO can, if he/she chooses, “arrest” you and take you into custody for a traffic violation (speeding, stop sign violation,etc. Check it out. Arrest does NOT mean conviction, so you are OK with unwarranted searches just becasue the PD find a way to “arrest” you?
This ruling gives them the “legal” means to search your Smartphone, PDA, etc, effectively allowing them to search your computer by extension, with no warrant. Many law abiding citizens like myself object to that kind of abuse of the 4th Amendment. We are worried about the dissemination of private, personal information to other LE agencies for no legitimate reason. This court and others, most of which are left leaning, have been allowed to take WAY too much power away from the citizenry under the guise of providing needed “security”.

Here is a comment I found some time ago that is applicable, in my view to this matter. “The path to a police state is never marked with road signs. It is instead littered with the debris of a hundred little surrenders, little concessions that seemed reasonable at the time.” Read/study history my friend, the Nazi’s didn’t initially seize power by force and it didn’t happen over night. We are seeing a daily loss of constitutional freedoms and it has to stop.

]]> By: Andrew https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/04/cal-supreme-court-tyranny/#comment-3477 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:27:33 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=12425#comment-3477 1. “So you’re pulled over fcor a DUI and taken to the cop shop.” Doesn’t exactly happen that way now, does it? Field sobriety, breathalyzer, bracelets.

2. How often does a DUI suspect fail the field sobriety, fail the breathalyzer, go to the ‘cop shop’ then pass blood test? Just silly.

3. You analogy of a police officer reading the contents of a suspects’ cell phone to Wikileaks is insulting and I’m not a cop. Just ridiculous.

4. If you folks are serious about calling yourselves journalists, you should get serious about your writing.

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