1984 George Orwell is here!

G'day Everyone.

A long time ago, my father told me and I read in automotive news that gave me one serious advice: Inspect underneath your car once in a while. Usually once a month or whenever you have your car serviced by the garage.

Know why? Two serious news links you ought to read today:

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/27/oregon.gps.surveillance/index.html?hpt=T1

Link: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013150,00.html?hpt=T1

Now, if you find something out of order or something not suppose to be there, don't touch it. Anything that looks like a black box or device is more likely has been placed there by someone else. Instead, take pictures with it a digital camera. Head to the nearest lawyer's office. Chances are some one's been tracking you for some reason.

So suppose you don't have a tracking device underneath your car? You may say: "but Sherlock I am ok, am I?".

Well, let me ask you this: Do you got a built in GPS system on your cell phone? Don't ever bother to activate it.

Do you got a tomtom or any other type of a GPS navigation system in your old car? The gov't can track you with that.

I am aware that newer cars are now being built with not only a GPS navigation system built-in, but also an ON-Star service system too. Law enforcement can track you through that too.

George Orwell, in his book of "1984", described of what was coming down the road for our society. He had a feeling that terrorism was going to change the face of our society a whole lot more than it was before.

It's now 26 years since 1984. Has George Orwell been right? The debate is far from it's conclusions.
But now the big constitutional question is, can the government as well as law enforcement be allowed to track it's citizens?

That will be a question for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider one day. It will be a sticky decision that will impact it's nation citizens.

My concern is this: Law enforcement better be making good use of the GPS tracking to really track after the bad guys. Because if they track an innocent citizen that not broken any laws, it will be an ugly legal mess some day.

My hope is that George Orwell is wrong, but some times I think we're about to call ourselves "The Fatherland" some day, which is what Orwell said we might do.

Semper FI.