A judge at a district court in North Dakota has issued the first ruling on domestic drone use, saying that the arrest of a man during which surveillance drones were used was not “improper” and that it has “no bearing” on charges brought against the man.
The arrest was the result of a dispute over laws in North Dakota surrounding wandering livestock, and police attacked the man, Rodney Brossart, on his property after he refused to return six cows which had wandered onto his property.
Brossart’s lawyer sought the charges of “criminal mischief” thrown out because of the warrantless use of drones, as well as a number of other “constitutional violations” including tasering him.
The relatively minor charges against Brossart may well serve as the first legal precedent for police use of surveillance drones against civilians on American soil. The prosecution had argued that the “mischief” was committed before the drones were deployed, and that therefore they weren’t relevant to the charges.
It seems to me to be the thin edge of the wedge! Imagine, America, the newest Police State!
When will Big Brother appear?
Ha!! Big Brother has been here for a long time now. It has become more evident since the "legalization" of warrantless wiretapping and "justifiable" torture – the majority of people just haven't caught on yet.
Or either citizens are just too afraid, or perhaps don't care since they're not the ones being hurt…yet. Part of what is being done to whistleblowers is meant to discourage others from following suit. Please give to the ACLU. They fight for our rights and take these types of abuses to court. My God, we have been in a police state since before Bush came to office. He just made it legal, formed a partnership surveillance with all companies, assuring them blanket immunity under a law you cannot challenge for it is against the law to speak of it, and just doubled/tripled up on technology research/advancement and psyops that were previously perfected in Hitler's Germany. Such a shame to ruin and lay waste to the once "home of the free, land of the brave".
It seems the judiciary also needs an overhaul.
Yes, the judiciary is absolutely complicit in covering up corruption and abuses performed by LE and others under The Patriot Act and FISA! It seems to get this right, we would have to get all of these disbarred. (I can't see that happening. Sigh.) They would have a —- fit if these laws actually applied to them. But, alas, these laws are only intended for those others with whom they mostly disagree; and they will frame them at all costs. This is when gangstaking became so prevalent; and they tried to make victims appear insane. If the victims are insane, it is because the govt. drove them there intentionally. What justice is there for those who have suffered so much at the hands of a govt. that secretly became the Gestapo.
Lets see when willBig Brother appear, I dont know, was that when GW Bush started the Wholesale use of momitoring every US citizens telephone and Internet use,
Big Brother is alive and gaining strength in the US, his siblngs are also around the world doing the same thing in other countries!
But why does the govt. choose to hurt/oppress/abuse its own citizens? Consider what the US might look like if Bush had never been elected, much less twice. (There are those who do not believe these were fair elections.) Then we need to all work very hard to make it look like that picture in our minds–of a time of wealth, peace, prosperity, and the right to privacy and the pursuit of happiness. All these laws need to be defeated and/or revised and restricted so that citizens are protected from abuses. We need to say, "No more!" before it's too late and we slip forever more into the police state many you labeled "paranoids" warned us of years ago.
Why don't you "Americans"
if that's what you're going to call yourselves; go and demand some Peace Officers to assist you, and if they will not, hire yourselves as Peace Officers, and go arrest the "Judiciaries"
Just a thought.
North Dakota a Republican run state , No surprise here they be the first to up hold big bother law
It seem that deploymewnt of Katz v. Curtiledge May be the PERFECT DEFENSE to estoppel this UN-Constitutional Central Soviet styled Big Bother Stalinesque Intrusion on Privacy Rights?