{"id":307,"date":"2005-12-06T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2005-12-06T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T08:20:00","slug":"another-thing-that-needs-to-be-nipped-in-the-bud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/another-thing-that-needs-to-be-nipped-in-the-bud\/","title":{"rendered":"Another thing that needs to be nipped in the bud&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; along with national ID cards, retinal scans, and plugging the analog hole, is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-5982762.html\">tracking American drivers wherever they drive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8230;. the general idea is that a small GPS device, which knows its location by receiving satellite signals, is placed inside the vehicle &#8230; The Fourth Amendment provides no protection. The U.S. Supreme Court said &#8230; that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy when they&#8217;re driving on a public street. Even more shocking are additional ideas that bureaucrats are hatching &#8230;. . A report prepared by a Transportation Department-funded program in Washington state says the GPS bugs must be made &#8220;tamper proof&#8221; and the vehicle should be disabled if the bugs are disconnected &#8230; [and outlines] a public relations strategy (with &#8220;press releases and\/or editorials&#8221; at a &#8220;very early stage&#8221;) to persuade the American public that this kind of contraption would be, contrary to common sense, in their best interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENOUGH of this shit.  Historically, governments have always been far more dangerous than any threats they pretended to defend us against &#8230; and the only reason the American government has been a notable exception is that it had &#8220;HANDS OFF YOUR CITIZENS&#8221; burned into its ROM.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to re-declare our independence from government &#8230; and re-assert ITS dependence on US, the autonomous citizenry.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; along with national ID cards, retinal scans, and plugging the analog hole, is tracking American drivers wherever they drive: &#8230;. the general idea is that a small GPS device,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}