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“It makes abuse easy” is an argument for safeguards, limits, audits, or possibly restrictions but not proof that the technology is inherently unlawful. If you’re arguing Flock itself should be unlawful, first establish why its ordinary operation crosses a constitutional or statutory line, rather than pointing to the possibility of misuse.

I think you’re aiming for the wrong target. Focus on whether rhe comprehensive technological tracking can implicate the Fourth Amendment.
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The tool creates the possibilities for the abuse. It makes the abuse too easy for LEO, which means the abuse becomes too common.

What the frick?

Arguing that making abuse easier necessarily means abuse becomes too common is an empirical proposition, not a legal rule.

The possibility that a lawful tool can be abused does not itself make the tool unlawful. The legal question is whether the government’s particular collection, retention, query, disclosure, or use of the information violates a constitutional or statutory limitation.

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The reason we have rights is to ensure LEO like the one in OP can't abuse their tools against innocent citizens, or, at least, that was the original intent before our rights started becaming eroded in the 70s

Well yeah, the Constitution constrains law enforcement. But that doesn’t mean a law enforcement tool that can be abused is unconstitutional. It means government use of the tool remains subject to constitutional and statutory limits.
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Satan is a created being and a great deceiver. He deceives people like you into thinking that they can make themselves right before God by obedience to the law.

God created Satan to deceive people he created? And he created Satan so that they can be deceived about the Creator? Make it make sense.

God wants to trick people into following the 10 Commandments and to falsely believe that such adherence is a worthwhile goal?
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If you sin even once, you deserve death from a holy God.

The fact that you think sinners can make up for their sins by just trying to do better means you do not know who God is.

Your faith is very Old Testament.

Borderline muzzie.
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There is a show called puppetry of the penis if you guys are looking for something different

I don’t think any of us want to Google that.

So tell us about it. And talk slowly.
The officer was the problem.

If the tool had been used properly, no one starts a topic with the tool as the hook.

It’s fair to debate the constitutionality of the tool. Let’s focus on the real issue rather than the misuse of it.
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Who’s ODB?

I’m guessing his name changed to OBJ.

And now you know…the rest of the story.
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Further evidence that Miles and staff misused Shepard’s talents.

True but now we also know why he lacked proper footwork to play QB. His center of gravity was too low.
I agree with all 5.

But don’t just ban foreign gifts from public officials. Cap the dollar amount of domestic gifts to politicians.

Also, let’s see if there’s a legal path to stop unlimited money donated in politics through Super PACS, and dark money.

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I think the Abella Danger version

Who? I have never heard of such a person in my life.
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Y'all keep saying that. We have never heard from the agent who initiated contact with the two women and Pretti on what he was thinking.

This is not a prerequisite for assessing or knowing what happened. There is no obligation for officers involved in shootings to host press conferences.

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Pushing people away doesn't seem like attempting to arrest someone. Neither of the two women Agent Panicky shoved were arrested for anything.

The only reason ICE agents were on the scene was to conduct a targeted arrest. The only reason things escalated beyond the targeted arrest was because a bunch of Karens with rape whistles decided their moral cause was to interfere. That’s the sole reason Alex Pretti and the woman shoved to create distance were there.

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Again though, it's irrelevant. You can't shoot someone just because they are breaking a law. The person has to be a reasonable threat of serious bodily harm when you shoot them.

It never looked like an intentional shoot to me. It looked like a textbook example for why people should not interfere with an arrest - because it creates a dangerous situation for everyone.

The agents who signed up for the job knew the risks. That’s why they get hazardous duty pay.

Pretti knew the risks too. That’s why he brought a gun when he knew his purpose was to interfere with an arrest.

The agents who removed the weapon did not aim the weapon he removed. He mishandled it and the round that went off could have easily resulted in the death of one of the good guys. Fortunately the casualty was someone who armed himself because he was looking for conflict with agents tasked with doing the risky job of arresting law breakers and not someone committed to keeping fellow Americans safe from law breakers.

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He was never told he was under arrest. He was never a threat to anyone.

You cannot interfere with an arrest. That’s illegal. You become a threat to the safety of officers when you do that. It usually leads to arrest whether you are offered a verbal or even written invitation to consent to an arrest.
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The first thing you need to do is stop with the idiot, "Iran's been two weeks away from nuclear weapons for 40 years,“ stupidity. Yes, other people have claimed that for decades. This is the first time that Iran itself has claimed that.

I think you are overstating it.

According to one US official, an Iranian diplomat allegedly claimed they were 7-10 days from being able to enrich weapons grade uranium.
I never shat in my own neighborhood at work for this very reason. But I always worked in a large enough building to take a walk to a different floor where no one would recognize my shoes under the stall.

Even when I advanced to a position that provided my own private bathroom connected to my office I still took a walk, except when working on weekends when I knew I was the only one there.
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All I got to show for it is crawfish, a few parades and high car insurance.

Don’t forget about that beautiful culcha.
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What was your final straw or main reason you left Louisiana?

Being a crime victim was one.
Having to settle for a very low level entry level job after college was another.
Attempts to advance my career with no takers in La, but takers in a much higher population Texas was another.
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They never expected suicidal terrorists. After all the years of suicide bombers in the middle east they never expected it here.

I’ll say it differently.

We all knew about suicidal terrorists. But they were all useful idiots. They were chaff.

That is a very different personality than what the radical Islamists successfully recruited- people intelligent enough and capable enough of getting into flight school and successfully learning to control such an aircraft.

How could someone intelligent enough to do such a thing also believe that such an act could achieve the intended goals constructed by humans who preach a religion
For those of us who don’t live in Lafayette… what the hell is this I49 connector.

Most of us just assumed I49 was already connected.

Details would help.
Is this the remodel people are supposed to get excited about:



New sleeping areas so the homeless can have better water views?

I don’t mind the imagery of flipping off Canada with the remaining towers, but they could have shortened the 2 side towers for a bolder middle finger.