This just deserves a post of its own…

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.

Wow. Just … wow. Un-freaking-believable. I can’t even rant about it, and I shouldn’t have to. Any adult human with minimal reasoning capabilities should be able to see that this is a very, very bad idea and total ridiculous. I can’t even fathom how it can be considered OK for any governmental body from any level of government, including police, to track someone’s every movement without having to show some reasonable suspicion in order to get a warrant. What’s next? Being able to listen to all our phone calls whenever they like? Oh, wait … they can already do that.

I hadn’t really wanted a fence around the front yard, but seeing as what differentiates between my driveway, on my property, being considered a place I can expect some measure of freedom and privacy or not is the existence of a fence, well … guess I want a fence now. Though I’ll tell you that anyone caught fussing around my truck under cover of night on my property is liable to get injured. Perhaps I need to staple a Trespassers Will Be Shot sign to the pecan tree by the street.

See, nothing’s really changed in the USA. We’re still jumping off the cliff into becoming a police state as quickly as we can.