For someone who campaigned against the Bush Administrations excesses like the Patriot Act, the Obama Administration has simply continued and expanded these excesses...
Example #1
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2 ... ving-vans/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
By ANDY GREENBERG
As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.
That's right...those controversial full-body scan machines in use at airports are now van-mounted and rolling the streets of this country...
Example #2
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/27/ore ... tml?hpt=T2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California.
That's right...no warrant needed...not even probable cause... simple attach it and monitor your activities...
The slippery slope is getting steeper and slipperier...
I undergo 10-12 thorough background checks each year...the only think that might lead to my downfall would be my desire for voters to toss out incumbents. 