Government putting a GPS device to track you
By billzehua
@billzehua (573)
China
September 2, 2010 10:35am CST
I guess everybody have heard the announcement from the US court for the Ninth Circuit that the government can monitor you any time it wants, and till now it's already been on application in California and either other western states.For that I strongly believe there've been enough voices about how the government infringing the citizen privacy or personal property. Now I want to read this news from another angle that the government is actually weakening itself.
Firstly, I could translate this 'audacity' measure as the panic of the government. Unconsciously the government starts to mistrust its people and what they are doing now shows that the society is beginning to shake and crime suspects are looming around to the extent where any citizen can fall into the searching group, at least that's the obvious hint I can get from its 'boldness'.We could presume there must be something going on to compel the government to go to the extreme,cases of shooting? looming domestic terrorism? don't know, but onething is for sure, there has to be something intriguing the decision.
Secondly,the government is starting to drift away from the democracy image it's been building so hard all the way up, it's utterly a proof of totalitarianism.It's not that hard for any citizen to figure that out, and why this time the government becomes so stubborn to believe it's for the sake of the public interest. Gradually DPRK will start to say hello to the American government,"Hi,there, finally we are brothers".lol
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6 responses
@billzehua (573)
• China
5 Sep 10
and then one day the people themselves will realize they are locking themselves up
@Miner49r (568)
• United States
2 Sep 10
I was reading about the new "enhanced drivers license" and how it contains an RFID chip as well as the newly issued passports. This is rather scary. We are quickly becoming a monitored society and the most fearfull part of it is... We the people are allowing it to happen and even encouraging it to be.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
3 Sep 10
When the government no longer trusts its own citizens it is because they want the citizens to believe what they believe. And even though some compare it to Christianity, that is not so. When Christians go out to the Mission fields, they do not force the population to listen to their sermons, and if the population refuses to listen they "shake off the dust of their sandals" and go elsewhere. But a totalitarian government and I saw that of any government who puts cameras to see what people are doing wants the people to depend on the government and give their praise and adoration to it. So the government becomes an idol, a god.
It is all right to put cameras where there is danger of crimes just as one puts on street lights so cars do not run into each other and people can walk safely, but this is limited and is for the preservation of safety not to see if one did something the government did not approve of.
I see that America with its big government is on the way of being a totalitarian state. Too bad they did not learn the lesson of Europe and Japan during the World War II.
@billzehua (573)
• China
5 Sep 10
I guess we have something in common, that is we both doubt the government's act is forcing people to believe what they justify to be rightful.They could bargain that they have to do whatever it takes to protect the safety of its people,like the voice of president Bush on his every week radio address. Facebook twitter and youtube are blocked in China,and that's not something new, the execuse is that the goverment fears that those sites provide heavens to harbor radicals that are not easy to chase down, they pose a threat to the stir up turbulences. Surely I want to thank the government for its noble deeds first, but later I can't grumbling it seems the government is not open enough to criticism or what? A big country with civilized citizens as it has been claiming yet being afraid of dissenting voices?
Oh,suspenseful, enlighten me about Wat's up with the Europe and Japan during world war 2nd, I ll be grateful if you do that.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
5 Sep 10
On the one hand, I want to say that it wouldn't bother me if the government were to keep a continual eye on where I was because I don't have anything to hide in my life. However, the other part of me says that this is very wrong because we are supposed to be given the right to been seen as innocent until we are proven guilty of something, even though a lot of people view a person as guilty until proven innocent, this is just another way of taking that right away from citizens of the country.
@billzehua (573)
• China
5 Sep 10
if the government believes that most of its citizens are following the rules, then there's no necessity to extend the extreme/trouble to most of its citizens.Indeed it harms you no big a deal if you are really innocent, but would you like be treated as a little child who is escorted to school everyday or checked by your parents on your mobile records any time they want? I bet you wouldn't, coz you know you are a person with discretion and for that you deserve the trust.The terminal goal is for people's sake, I understand, and that's why I'm not very cynical about the government.
@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
2 Sep 10
I think GPS device is very useful for servilance system.. and also for police department.. to track any suspicious person or activity.. it will help in avoid any crime .. so i think it is a good device to track anything..
@billzehua (573)
• China
5 Sep 10
what if you are stalked while you are innocent? and then put yourself into the shoes of other innocent people?
@amanca (91)
• Italy
8 Oct 10
That's partially correct. I mean, the GPS tracking is very useful to track and stop suspicious or dangerous people but I also think that's a shame that the Government can decide to put a GPS Tracking System in your car to track you with such a strong power and without a strong and important reason. I think people need a law to limit this power and limit the abuse the autority can do without letting dangerous people escape from justice "radar". :)
@billzehua (573)
• China
13 Oct 10
thx for the response,the white house is going to too much length to protect its people.
