Scary stuff, there certainly seems to be and interesting theme of abandoning warrants and probable cause lately...

Justin, we or at the least I, miss you over at TPM! Hope all is well with ABC and the Blotter.

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tracking people using cell phones for emergency purposes is fine for ANY emergency person. Many lives have been saved by this. Why is ACLU butting in?

Baby Boomers are turning this country into a Senior Mobile Home Park!!!

The ACLU has a habit of "butting in" when Constitutional issues of privacy are involved. Folks who remember anything at all about the Constitution have been cringing for years now as GWB and his henchmen have set out to shred it completely, and, the ACLU seems to be the only organization with enough gumption to take on these goons. Congress sure isn't, and in many cases is assisting their illegal acts. It's sad to see how easily our citizens are willing to give up their rights. Warrants have become mere nuisances to these fools. Throw these fearmongering authoritarian idiots out and never let 'em back in is my recommendation. Freedom does not happen by accident. It is now under attack, and it would be refreshing to see people realize it.

That would be law abiding citizens like (totally innocent) brian mayfield the alleged spanish train bomber. or the (totally innocent) canadian we sent to the middle east to be tortured for a year. or any other totally innocent person that the justice department screws up on. remember yellowbird, these people were just minding their own business. it could happen to you, or me or anyone.

having outside oversite of police, security, intellegence, etc. agencies is critical to the preservation of liberty. there will always incompetent, lazy, psychotic, and just plain personally vindictive people drawn into these fields where they have personal power over others. mercifully the number is very low. but anyone that denies they exist is a liar. that is why the aclu and organizations like them are absolutely essential even if you don't agree with them in every case.

Okay, what is the problem with Law Enforcement being able to find out where people's cell phones are? They've found more criminals and missing persons this way that you can count, so isn't it nice to know that if you go missing and have your cell phone on you that the cops would be able to find you before you starve or freeze to death or something? I mean, come on, its not like they just decide that they want to see where someone is becasuse they're bored. And I find people's generalizations about Law Enforcemnt to be kind of disturbing. Most Law Enforcement Officers just want to help people and do some good in the world, very few are corrupt and by saying that they're all corruspt, you're completly ignoring the fact that these people put theur lives on the line every day in order to protect others. How about this, instead of having a few dirty cops amon thousands of good ones, lets just get rid of Law Enforcement in general and have complete mayhem. Lets see how long it take you to be begging for the cops to come back and help you. Sure, sometimes the legislation overreaches, but personally, if it keeps me from getting murdered by a serial killer or killed in a terrorist attack or something, I'm okay with the FBI being able to see where I am. If you've got nothing to hid, what's the problem. ANd lets not even pretend that the FBI has the manpower of resources to see where everyone is all the time. I mean, seriously.

"Law enforcement has absolutely no interest in tracking the locations of law-abiding citizens."

Well, Mr. Boyd, if you already know the people you want to track are NOT law-abiding citizens, why do you need to track their cell phones? Do you think that insulting our intelligence with such ridiculous and transparent garbage will make us everyone more law-abiding?

Well put, Buzz, well put.

As a general rule, I do not want the government tracking my every move... but I don't have a problem with it if they did. I don't have anything to hide. The ACLU is just a puppet for CAIR and other fascist organization within the US. The ACLU is a parasite that uses hate and bigotry to further its political agenda of destroying our way of life. They are vermin and should be treated as such!

Hey Buzz... Why did the ACLU spend so much effort taking prayer and the pledge of allegiance out of public schools, yet vigorously defends the Muslim's right to practice thier religion any where they want... including public school? Looks like they are under Saudi's payroll as well.

Only those with something to hide protest such an action.

The police tracked my cellphone and came to my house to question me about my friends son. He got into a domestic with his girlfriend, she pressed charges on him and he was running.They also questioned me about HIS friend they were on the hunt for.I didn,t know where he was,didn,t even know his friend.Is it ok for the law to invade my privacy for thier domestic problems ? I don,t have anything to hide either, I just think it,s a bit much for silly little domestic stuff.