For those who scoffed at slippery slope arguments concerning sex offenders [View All]

[MadHound]

It looks like the next step down is going to be taken soon in California. Apparently new AG Brown wants to anklet *all* parolees, all the better to track them via GPS.

"Gunshots ring out in a neighborhood, and law enforcement's first move is to pull up a computer screen to see whether the sound came from areas equipped with electronic devices that track the source of gunfire.

Then a public safety employee keys up another monitor and uses Global Positioning System technology to identify the locations of the city's worst-known violent offenders -- to determine whether any of them are in the spot where the shots were fired.

Such a brave new world is coming to Oakland -- and it seems likely that it will become a reality elsewhere in California now that crime-fighting Mayor Jerry Brown is about to become the state's attorney general." <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/10/BAGF7MA7DB1.DTL>

So, you still don't think this is a bad idea eh? After all, it's only parolees who are having their every move tracked. Well, a few years back, this was the first step taken against sex offenders, and now, after this past election in California, sex offenders, no matter what their crime, are going to be tracked for life. This is what's in store with all people who have been in prison, no matter what their crime.

Do you get it now? Do you see? They make these Orwellian laws that initially pertain only to sex offenders, the most despicable of offenders. Then slowly, but surely over a period of years these laws that have hitherto only been applied to sex offenders are now applied to all offenders. Still not scared? Get this then, the next step will be to apply this Orwellian nightmare to the populace as a whole.

You folks out in California still have a chance to stop this madness. Contact Brown and let him know in no uncertain terms that you find these new practices to be abhorrent. Write LTTEs, let it be known that this sort of treatment is fundamentally Un-American.