In that case, I don't think any any attempts were made to burn it down, or a federal courthouse building which has zilch to do with their grievance and isn't even the right branch of government. Then people ask, how did we get here? When the past year of activism made mobbing government buildings placing them under siege for weeks and trying to burn them down the acceptable norm with little done to stop it or condemn it in the media, its not hard to see why the other extreme might think its their time to shine. The pearl clutching is amusing to me.
There are reasons for _everyone_ to be concerned about geofence warrants. It skates dangerously close to restricting freedom of association. We all know that there are bad actors - and often the chance to use extremists to paint everyone of a particular religion, sex or ideology with the tar brush of the extremists.
We don't know - for example - how many people were returned here. Was it 2 devices? 200 devices? 2000 devices? If there was a parade of people in front of the building? If there was just the arson suspects? Maybe only police ones?
I do not see how strapping a set of GPS coordinates instead of a city block magically makes the warrany anything other than a General Warrant.
If there are separate parts of a system -- but all part of the same underlying system -- do you really see them as completely different things? For example, I've heard cops, while arresting someone for marijuana, just "pass the buck" and say, "We don't write the laws, we are just enforcing them."
If you are part of maintaining, propagating, and continuing a system, are you not an equal part of that system and the things done in its name?
Yes, I think you can make this case. However, it isn't appropriate someone charged to execute enforcement of the law to ignore the laws they don't like. The only valid exception would be laws that aren't legal and therefore invalid.
Absolutely not, with a key emphasis on the “equal part”. It is totally wrong to assume that I, as a citizen and taxpayer who is just living my life normally, is equally as culpable as a lawmaker or a trigger happy police officer is a fallacy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28707974
Nobody responded and I'm not entirely sure why.
Timing probably. What else was active that day that kept the Eye of Sauron from looking in this stories direction? Lots of things can contribute.
Trying to burn down a police station is localized mob violence.
They are not the same.
They get around it because they have slapped a modern technology workaround over the top of out constitutional protections as they often do, but a warrant under the US 4th amendment is suppose to outline the exact person, place, and object to be searched and seized.
Obtaining Geofence warrant is, and should be unconstitutional any judge issuing such a warrant is unfit to be a judge