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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 05 2016, @08:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the use-virtual-reality,-instead? dept.

Federal agents have persuaded police officers to scan license plates to gather information about gun-show customers, government emails show, raising questions about how officials monitor constitutionally protected activity.

Emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency crafted a plan in 2010 to use license-plate readers—devices that record the plate numbers of all passing cars—at gun shows in Southern California, including one in Del Mar, not far from the Mexican border.

Agents then compared that information to cars that crossed the border, hoping to find gun smugglers, according to the documents and interviews with law-enforcement officials with knowledge of the operation.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gun-show-customers-license-plates-come-under-scrutiny-1475451302

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by redneckmother on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:25PM

    by redneckmother (3597) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:25PM (#410643)

    Respectfully, I must disagree with your assertion that voting can or will change anything.

    To me, it is painfully obvious that the electoral system is rigged in the US.

    Few people who SHOULD be elected ARE elected, and those in power remain in power.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday October 05 2016, @08:46PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @08:46PM (#410817)

    Respectfully, I must disagree with your assertion that voting can or will change anything.

    The problem is that democracy requires an informed participating public to work as intended. We have neither in the US. Too many people do not vote in primaries and general elections. Too many people have no interest in issues that will truly affect them, if they become politically concerned at all it is in getting outraged over mirage issues. People are convinced to vote against their own interests not for altruistic reasons, but because they fear someone they consider undesirable will benefit as well. It requires personal effort of every person to be informed, we geeks and nerds discovered long ago that science, math, nature, tech, etc. are far more interesting and important than Keeping Up With The Kardashians, too many people would rather take the easy way out.

    We have roughly a 90% retention rate for a Congress that has roughly a 10% approval rating. They should be voted out, every one, in the primaries. In the House every two years, in the Senate every six years, the President every four years, at least until things start to change. Combine that with 90-100% voter participation, and we would bring the current power structure crashing down.

  • (Score: 2) by J053 on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:55PM

    by J053 (3532) <dakineNO@SPAMshangri-la.cx> on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:55PM (#410853) Homepage
    And that's because something like 60% of eligible voters don't fucking bother to vote. Every Member of Congress and/or Senator could be replaced in any election year if people would just get off their asses and go vote for someone else.