Law Enforcement can now look through your walls - Without a warrant

"WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.

Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house without first obtaining a search warrant."

The devices are sensitive enough they can even see your breath from more than 50 feet away. So they could just drive down the street, slow down and aim the device at your home and tell which room of the house you are in, if you and your significant other are having intimate relations, or if you are on the toilet or alone.

Law Enforcement say they need it to protect lives in case they have to enter after a suspect.  In a case where they HAVE a Valid and proper warrant signed by a judge, I have no problem with that.

However, Law Enforcement Agencies having been using these for at least 2 years, and the general public is just NOW hearing about these?  SO how long have these devices been used without a warrant or proper supervision?

Who has access to these devices?

Do they have a built in recording function?

Just how detailed are they?

Can a person be readily identifiable?

How many children may have been viewed with these devices?

Do you see what the problem is?

Law Enforcement agencies could have used these devices to go on "Fishing Expeditions", drive down a street peering through peoples walls, see something they think might be a crime and the next thing you know, you have a SWAT Team kicking in your door and people and property getting damaged, injured or killed.

So right now, we the Citizens, need to know WHO is using these devices. HOW their use is regulated and supervised, WHETHER or not they have the ability to record the information and JUST HOW detailed that information is.

And we need to be sure they ARE NOT being used by Law Enforcement to violate our 4th Amendment Rights.

Looking through our walls to see if someone is doing something, or even if someone has a grow operation, WITHOUT a warrant is a violation of our Rights.

So if the Police want to use these, they need to have a Valid Warrant specifying exactly where the device is to be used, and limits just how long that device can be used at that location before another warrant is required.

For all we know, a Law Enforcement Agency could get a warrant for an arrest or a search and then leave one of these devices across the street surveilling  the location for weeks, recording what the occupants do.

Think I'm crazy?  Look around you now at all of the stuff going on.

NYPD Officers were found planting firearms on suspects just recently.  In the past that and the planting of narcotics have also been done.  It's documented FACT.

Do you think for a second, that if the cops had this kind of technology in their hands that they WOULDN'T abuse it?

It' human nature.

Customs and Border PAtrol searching private planes without warrant

sometimes hundreds of miles from any border, and the private aircraft never even approached any border.

The CBP Agents have been removing FAA Required Data Plates from some aircraft, and their searches may be making the aircraft "Unflyable" through possible damage to the avionics by untrained uncertified inspectors.

"other pilots have been stopped and detained more than once by CBP agents operating well inland of the borders, targeting for invasive searches aircraft that never came close to crossing a border. AOPA is aware of some searches that could have compromised airworthiness, with uncertified personnel removing inspection plates, for example, not to mention the possible compromise of the pilot’s ability to safely fly given the stress induced by the demands made by armed federal agents"

Is there going to have to be a crash with the resulting possible death of the occupants of the plane and persons on the ground to stop this?

Or is this the start of a .GOV directive to force private pilots to restrict their flying, so as to further enforce unlegislated restrictions on the freedom of travel?

Since private pilots don't have to go through any security check points, aren't required to tell government agencies where they are going as they can change a flightplan while in the air if they even file one.  Is this the governments response to the freedom of people who can pick and choose when and where they want to go without having to deal with the intrusive searches and pawing of the TSA?

The CBP says it will be 6 months or more before they will answer the AOPA's FOIA request, if it all.

Do you feel safer now because of this?

Hmmm Warrantless Searches? 4th Amendment anyone?

"The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff’s deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. “He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he’s going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened.”

No search was performed, and the deputy left Henkelman’s home after the father answered questions in a four-page questionnaire issued by the Sheriff’s Office."

My kids school teachers know I own firearms.  Heck a few of them read this blog. The Chief of the School Districts Police knows I have firearms.  I've offered to give him ammunition I don't use, and we've discussed firearm preferences.  He likes his .40, I like my .38 and .45.  There are two sheriffs deputies who have outstanding invitations to come shoot with me anytime they feel like it.  They like older firearms like I do.  One of them offered to buy my SKS because he likes the fully adjustable rear sight mine has.

In short they know I am a responsible firearms owner, and I will do anything I can to assist them if they ever need it.  If it's simply stopping traffic (Which I have done after 2 accidents) until backup could get there, to giving a patrol car a jump start after it's battery died.

However for a Deputy to think he can just walk in my house uninvited and search?  "GET A WARRANT"

Some will say, "If you have nothing to hide, why would you mind?"

Simple, it violates my Rights and my PRIVACY.  If they are going to come into my home with the intent to search, they better have a Warrant in their hand for me to see.  One that details down to the FINEST detail what exactly they are looking for.  If they are looking for drugs, well I have a lot of prescriptions.  Locked in my SAFE.  If they have a warrant I will gladly unlock it then step back allowing them to check it.  They will not however force the lock on my safe or be searching it unaccompanied.  I will get out the video camera to document every single part of the search.  I used to be in Law Enforcement, I KNOW what can happen if a bad cop gets it in his head you are dirty.  So no, you better have a Warrant and the search will be fully documented through video or you will wait for my lawyer to get here.


So no, no 4 page "survey", no searching my house.  I haven't done anything wrong and if you think I did, go to a Judge and get a Warrant.