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anygunanywhere wrote:
If you think that electing a bunch of repubs in Novenber will solve this I have some oceanfront proprty i Arizona I want to sell you.....

Anygun

We can only hope that Arizona has water front property. That would mean that the San Andreas was really our friend and we removed all of our left coast problems.

There is no question that all of the career politicans, regardless of party, are responsible for our current mess. In fact, it is hard to tell them apart because they swap sides and stated positions faster than I can change my underwear. Our problem as an electorate is that we keep throwing one set of bums out... and electing another, even worse, set of bums.

Let's take this in the completely opposite direction.

We all understand that the recidivisim rate on CONVICTED criminals is very high. Let's tag and track all of them that aren't in prision, with the penalty that if the tracking device is ever lost or altered, they go back to prison. Inject the RFID device under their skin or something else that is going to make it hard to remove.

When society, the ACLU and the courts accept that, then let's talk about tracking INNNOCENT people.

This is the same logic that we use at border crossings. Honest, normal people who want to enter or leave the US are subjected to all manner of evil under the guise of "protecting the country". The guy who wants to crawl under the fence a couple of miles away is completely ignored. We allow thousands across the border, have pictures of them doing the crossing and double the number of people inspecting at the approved crossings to harrass those whose intent is to obey the law and cross correctly. I've got to be tracked closely if I leave and re-enter the US. 12 Million illegals don't have any tracking at all. It is OK for teams of guys to haul bushels of marijuana across the border on their backs but heaven forbid that I should buy an extra bottle of wine in Canada.

jimlongley wrote: I wonder what they would say about my right to destroy my own property as long as I'm not committing fraud, etc.

If the GPS device is attached to my property, my vehicle, on my property, my driveway, and it doesn't have any identifying marks, it seems to me that I could remove it, just like I might remove some other part of the car, and throw it away. How am I supposed to know it's supposed to be there legally?

I wonder how easy it would be to detect that you had one of those. Depending on how good the device was hidden, it might take some fairly sophisticated electronics to know that it is there. My guess is that many new GM products already have them and that it would not even require the Government to do anything but tap into that signal. After all, the air waves are "public."