Weather Satellites as Government Tools
The Weather Satellites do More Than Just Predict Bad Weather: They Are Also Designed to Observe Every American in the Country.
Every day, more people are using satellite features, not with holding weather satellites and GPS, of which the latter is a powerful way of locating one’s position anywhere on the planet within a small range of a few yards.
Many spokesmen for privacy are afraid of this advancement, such that the police can use them to watch for any one of us – under the premise of looking for clues of suspects.
There is a real and dire need for a restriction on the government’s ability to track down all of our moves and they are not above using such publicly owned devices as weather satellites to do so.
As according to past concerns about controversial privacy issues, those who are influenced almost immediately are those who get the least amount of sympathy from the majority of the people.
A good example is William Bradley Jackson, whose case was of a conviction of killing his own daughter as a result of the police secretly attaching a GPS device to his car, allowing them to track him down, not unlike weather satellites.
While tracking him down, they discovered that he was using his vehicles to transport the body of his daughter from her original grave to bring it to a more secretive place.
If they had not use the GPS device, the police might never have been able to find solid proof against Jackson, but they also did not have any existing right to do what they had done in terms of a warrant of a legal judicial oversight to account for their alleged actions.
Jackson had known this, and challenged the fact with the Washington Supreme Court having to acknowledge that the police and other related government departments did not have the appropriate authority to use GPS tracking features freely on whoever they please, whenever they wanted to.
Jackson should not be given a shed more sympathy regardless of the change of circumstances, but we should also not conclude that the police were completely right in what they did and should be allowed to do it again without having the need for a warrant in the near future.
Because if we allow them to do so, then we are allowing random home searches without the need for warrants as well based on the assumption that they may find terrorists and murderers under our kitchen sink.
Consider, if there really is no need for a warrant, then police should just install GPS devices to keep an eye on us just like how we do with the weather satellites to always look out for natural phenomenon and incoming disasters.
And then they will propose that we attach such tracking devices onto our bodies, allowing then to keep track of where we are any time, any day, anywhere.
The Government is not Exclusive; They Need a Very Good Reason
Even though we have little to hide, most people would object to the idea of being tracked consistently.
It does not necessarily mean that they have something that they want to hide, but it shows how few people want to give up the sensitive kind of information to the government when they do not really think that the current government administration have a good reasons to be tracking its citizens like weather satellites all over the states.
The Police is not Above the Law
To make it a law that the police needs to have an authorized permission to stick a GPS electronic device into a person’s car, means that the police needs to consider the opinion of an unbiased and neutral judge who will consider their reasons to see if they have sufficient cause to do so.
The legal meaning is that the police needs to show that they have sufficient reason based upon supporting facts to believe that “a crime was committed or that certain material property is somehow related to the crime”.
The Fourth Amendment is a Rule Above all Rules
The creators of the Constitution have put in great efforts to make sure that conditions were for its citizens’ pursuit of happiness.
They had sought to confer, even at the price of going against the Government, the right for anyone to be left alone, which happens to be the most comprehensive of rights and the right which is highly valued by civilized men.
To protect that right, the unjustifiable encroachment of the government into our private lives, looking at what we are doing constantly alike weather satellites, must be looked upon as a major violation of the Fourth Amendment.