Do you understand the unbelievable sophistication of these tools used by the National Recon Office? What these satellites are capable of? The technology being used is 10 years ahead of anything on the market and available to commercial enterprises. And that’s a guesstimate.

The potential for violating privacy is just too great. The program makes us less secure in our homes and property and should be abandoned.

For the rest of us, we see two things: these issues are meaningless fluff unless you go back a few years and do something that probably needs to be done, that is, drastically change or repeal RICO. That’s the statute that gave government and law enforcement the ticket to your pockets, bank account, and every room in your house.

Meanwhile, the SCOTUS dealt with most of this already in Kyllo: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2194/is_10_70/ai_80787342. Go read that decision about the use of IR scanners to gather information to support a 4th Amd probable cause warrant, and fit this latest publicity splash into the rules set forth in Kyllo. And calm down! (says Posner, no statist he)

This year they caught about 15 in ground pools that neither the homeowner or the installer had gone through the permit process for.

Each of the law enforcement agencies could purchase the same thing through commercial satellite photo vendors with no impact.

If a police traffic chopper flies over a home and sees pot growing in the back yard they can act on it. This has already hit the Supreme Court and been upheld.

Heck then can even use infrared to detect grow lights in a garage indicating potential plant growth.

I would rather have them have access to high res imaging for a Katrina recovery situation than low scan blurry stuff.

It’s not like cops are getting a terminal in their watch room for each satellite pass, each request will be vetted through an application process.

Also this allows data sharing between agencies for example to have a port imaged to look for weaknesses that need to be compensated for.

So we can scientifically look at volcano activity, but can’t do good looks at beach erosion or other things.

But those same cities could legally contract an aerial photo service to blanket their city.

Please don’t go jumping off bridges just because the guy next to you might.

Yeah, not only would it be silly to posit the notion, but it would be unpatriotic as well. It might even prove that you have something to hide. If people would just accept that the administration has their best interests in mind, the whole process would go a lot smoother.

You’re right — Reagan never said that. In fact, he stood for the exact opposite — a point I was tring to make that apparently didn’t come through. As the previous poster I assume is a Conservative, and seems to be advocating unfetterd Governmental intrusion into private citizen’s lives, I was trying to illustrate that the two postions are traditionally incompatable.

If my sarcasm was too subtle, my apologies. Given how obvious it appeared to me that such a statement was the opposite of Conservative ethos, I thought it was pretty clear.

No conservative has ever said such a thing. No one. Ever. Either educate yourself or stop commenting here. I’m sick to death of your stupidities.