Seems to me if I find cameras situated on my property, without my permission ...
They're mine.
And I'm free to do with them as I see fit.
And I see fit to smash them with a sledgehammer ...
Someone did that with a device placed by the FBI. The FBI went after him for theft of govt property. There was a thread here but I don’t remember all the details.
“Seems to me if I find cameras situated on my property, - - - -”
Finding them could require some very sophisticated equipment considering they are probably the size of a pencil eraser and concealed in such a manner you’d never see them, even if you were looking right at them.
The feds don’t need hidden cameras to spy on folks in our neck of the woods, we live close to the border and there is a surveillance flyover at least once a day. I should probably feel safer because of it, but the fact is I am not at all comfortable with it. This whole homeland security crap created by Bush had good intent, but in the hands of obama it can be used as a gestapo-ish tool against the citizenry.
Target practice.
There are detectors, normally used for 'bug sweeping' against microphones and audible-survelliance equipment, that detect and alert you to the presence of circuitry (particularly transistors and chips). These devices would certainly detect a camera.