Posted on 08/14/2008 1:29:55 AM PDT by Schnucki
Open question: If I find a unwanted object(device)on my vehicle that might be a GPS bug,can I remove it?
Does that mean I as a non-LEO can place a GPS device on others’ cars, as long as they’re parked on the street? Would I legally be permitted to put a GPS on a cop car parked on the street?
If would be interested in your story about this if you would care to share. It might change my mind.
Every piece of technology the police use is also in the hands of private detectives and organized crime. I can’t prove that there’s a GPS device on my car, and finding a well-planted bug in your residence is almost impossible, but circumstantial evidence suggests they are there, because I’ve suffered literally hundreds of burglaries (unforced entries), and somebody must know exactly when I’m home and how far I’m away. This all started when I became a whistleblower in the People’s Demonratic Republic of Maryland, has continued without letup for 29 years, and is still going on after I moved to another state. Then there’s the fact to consider that some cops are crooks, esp. in jurisdictions like MD. I’ll quote from another MD whistleblower: “You can’t go to the police because they own the police. You can’t go to the press because they own the press.” (We at FR should know how useless the media are at publicizing corruption in Demonrat jurisdictions, right?) If you google “gang stalking,” “cause stalking,” “revenge stalking,” and such topics, you will find some flaky tin-foil-hat stuff, but also much info that is true, stuff that I have experienced and that is also well known to cops, PIs, reporters, and others I have talked to. Relentless sophisticated stalking and harassment of innocent people is a reality. Often the creeps who do this will tell people the victim is a sex offender or some other undesirable, in order to get neighbors and others to collaborate in the crime. Bottom line: Don’t celebrate these technologies which a obliterating privacy in this country. They are a threat to everyone.
You too? I tell people it's a club no one wants to join.
or hire a local PI to sweep your house/car/etc...;0)
This is nothing other than excellent police work and is to be applauded. The only measure of their actions was that a dangerous sexual predator was removed from society. Anyone who would even bring up the question as to whether his “rights” were violated is seriously demented.
Dude, clear your sarcasm tags.
Of course. It’s your personal property.
I was stalked by a police officer for seven years. I have since moved out of town. I think he figured out where I went and I had a few episodes the first year but then suddenly everything stopped. I have no idea why.
Mine was personal, an acquaintance, not politically motivated. However I learned more about how the system works and doesn’t work than I ever imagined. I am pretty sure he tapped my phone and had some sort of surveillance device on my car. He knew my work days and hours and came into my apartment when I was at work. I became very good at noticing little things out of place, etc. I received strange phone calls, harassing messages and I caught two of his cop friends checking around my apartment in their uniforms and patrol car.
It’s like a bad movie. People around you aren’t much support because even if they believe you they can’t understand. I received some very insulting comments from friends and a couple from other police officers when I tried to get something done.
I wish I had answers. I don’t know why it was done to me and sometimes I wonder if it was just for fun, maybe to see if I could be driven crazy. There are some very sick people out there and they try to get themselves into positions of power.
I’d be happy to give you more details in freepmail if that would help.
Also, there a lots of cheap junky devices which claim to detect bugs and phone taps, but are useful only against amateur attacks. There are also PIs who do ineffective phony sweeps. Someone has said that PIs are so sleazy they make lawyers look like Boy Scouts.
goto SuperCircuits and buy a surveillance system that wirelessly uploads to a remote site. Problem solved, you have your stalker on video.
I had to do that as my x-wife was breaking into my home and vandalizing my place, I needed proof to press charges.
Actually they were following the guy but by using the GPS transmitter, they could remain out of sight. That was how they were able to catch the guy in the act of attacking a woman........
If police had a GPS tracker small and light enough, would it, in your opinion, be Constitutional for an undercover cop to slip it into your coat pocket while you were in a public place, and thereafter use it to track your movements?
So ... we place one on every police officer, judge, prosecutor, legislator, congressman, senator, governor, president,and any other elected or appointed official. We set up a website at "www dot trackarat dot gov" and post their movements real-time.
If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to worry about.
Sorry it took so long to respond.
I think you meant to post to someone else. I didn’t say any of that, that I can remember.
You do pose an interesting question. I don’t think that should be legal, but then again, most people carry a GPS tracker with them willingly.
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