Math puzzles most Americans which is why they don't understand that the octogenarians they keep counting on starts at 71 years of age. I say buy all the stock of DEPENDS company you can get, sprinkle it with defense and war profiteer companies and ladle it down with pharmaceuticals and tell your children...FUTURE????...what FUTURE???? have you not heard of the RAPTURE yet?????

Hey, let them look at my back yard. It's like driving down the street and peeping in my yard. Also they can follow my car to the grocery store, I don't care. Only if I was going to do something illegal would I care. If this will help protect me, then yes, spy away!!!!

National Review has written an editorial regarding the National Applications Office

If Homeland Security can see the interior of buildings inside the United States from satelliets than why were told we had to invade Iraq because they were "hiding" the WMDs inside
buildings and bunkers which we supposedly could not penetrate with our satellite technology?
Why doesn't the news media investigate
exactly what this technology can and cannot do because we keep getting conflicting information from the government depending who they want to spy on with this stuff.
The news media never asks why
Iraq was so "impenetrable" to US spy satellites if we can see what Joe six- pack is hiding in his basement
with no problem.

We've ample evidence that any new power we give the state will be abused. This real-time satellite imaging stuff is like giving the government god-like power to watch over you at any time, wherever you go.

Squeenter can see this as being a worthwhile tool in certain circumstances, like for border patrol and in cases where police already have a search warrant and are planning a raid, but I suspects this program will be abused in the same ways other powers the gov't has assumed since 9/11 have been.

There are many power-drunk officials who aren't the least bit concerned with violating your rights. Do you want the crooked local official with a grudge to be able to spy on you at all hours, without any legitimate reason at all? Do you trust the government?

If this technology is to be used at all, it should be highly restricted to certain types of cases, and it should require a warrant from the relevant court.

I hate when people say things like only if you are going to do something illegal should it matter. That is a cop-out and you all know it. I am a former US Marine and I live my life by the codes I was taught while in the service. HONOR, COURAGE, COMMITMENT! I took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic! So did all of these elected officials at some point in their careers. So did the president! The constitution is the Supreme law in America and it can be changed and shifted but, it was never meant to be gotten rid of and executive orders and bills like this erode at the very core of this already rotting society. Wake up ladies and gentlemen its time to exercise your rights and SPEAK OUT AND FIGHT IF NEED BE!

I think it is a absolute disgrace that the NBC "To Catch A Predator" sting is under fire. I am sick and tired of hearing about the rights of obvious criminals.
If there is to be a zero tolerance stance on anything in this country it should be on child predators and child pornagraphy. How dare DA John Roach dismiss charges on all those animals! I believe Roach should be immediatly removed from his position. The people who he serves should be outraged!
Even if the talk with Chris Hansen during the sting was for television, it served an important purpose, especially in Murphy Texas. Because of Roach, these pigs would have walked free to molest other children without their identity being exposed. At least the chat with Chris Hansen exposed them to the country, their family and friends for who they are. Hopefully their lives are ruined.
And one more thing. The assistant d.a. (the person who was supposed to protect our children) that shot and killed himself did the children and people of this country a big favor. The nerve of anyone to say this went bad!

US Intel is already illegally spying on millions of Americans within the privacy of their homes.

The NSA has been doing so since the early 1980's, through its Signals Intelligence progam, and committed the most egregious violations against the 4Th Amendment ever documented.

The FBI is also involved in such extensive and treasonous criminality.

A truly garbage organization.