They have Cocklecarrots 'over there', too!

First of all, an apology.  Typepad, in their infinite wisdom - not! - have seen fit to change the layout definitions including reducing my choice of font size from this(#5) ...... to this (#4).  Now I know that if the typeface is too small I shall receive a terrific bollocking from 'DM' because he, like me, prefers an easy read.  However, the larger size does seem a tad too large - it's one up from my former font size - so I will try this #4 and it is up to you, dear reader, to tell me which you prefer.

Anyway, back to the subject in hand - American Cocklecarrots.  I am frequently rude about the dimwitted, soppy Lefties who have captured so many of our judicial benches because their pratfalls are the stuff of news 'over here'.  It is more difficult to catch up with their American counterparts but one story has just broken and not only is it stupidity magnified but also highly dangerous.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, basically the western states, have granted the government leave, without need of a search warrant, to bug anyone's car anytime they like in order to track their movements on GPS.  They have allowed this on the grounds that, and try not to throw up:

This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

What?!

Apparently this bunch of Cocklecarrots, in considering a particular case in which the police bugged a man's car on his driveway, said that because his driveway was open and unfenced he had no privacy rights.  A dissenting judge (appointed by Reagan, of course) pointed out that if he had been rich and lived in a gated development the law would have protected his rights but because he was poor it would not!

Thanks to Don Parker of The American Thinker for pointing the way, full story here:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013150,00.html#ixzz0xo2AjMEX

I'm away overnight, back tomorrow, hopefully to read your comments on the font size.

 

 

Comments

[dearieme]

I've changed browser so that now all websites, howsoever antedeluvian they may be in their technological eptitude, respond to the ctrl+ instruction.

[David Duff]

That's why I like your visits here, 'DM', you add a touch of class. Hitherto, I thought a 'browser' was me in a bookshop, and 'eptitude' - love it! Anyway, I have just returned from a night away and looking at it again I think I will stick with the bigger font, after all, why should I have to peer at my own golden words?