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After promptly ruling out a bomb, other Redditors helped correctly identify the black device as a Guardian ST820—a GPS tracking unit made by Cobham and used exclusively by the army and law enforcement.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Soon they will be killing people with drone strikes in the USA.
And they will use these things to help them acquire the target.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Castle Doctrine
A Castle Doctrine (also known as a Castle Law or a Defense of Habitation Law) is an American legal doctrine claimed by advocates to arise from English Common Law that designates one's place of residence (or, in some states, any place legally occupied, such as one's car or place of work) as a place in which one enjoys protection from illegal trespassing and violent attack.
It then goes on to give a person the legal right to use deadly force to defend that place (his/her "castle"), and/or any other innocent persons legally inside it, from violent attack or an intrusion which may lead to violent attack.
In a legal context, therefore, use of deadly force which actually results in death may be defended as justifiable homicide under the Castle Doctrine.
Castle Doctrines are legislated by state, and not all states in the US have a Castle Doctrine.
The term "Make My Day Law" comes from the landmark 1985 Colorado statute that protects people from any criminal charge or civil suit if they use force – including deadly force – against an invader of the home.
The law's nickname is a reference to the famous line uttered by Clint Eastwood's character Harry Callahan in the 1983 film Sudden Impact, "Go ahead, make my day."
Quote from : Wikipedia : Castle Doctrine : Stand Your Ground
Other states expressly relieve the home's occupants of any duty to retreat or announce their intent to use deadly force before they can be legally justified in doing so to defend themselves.
Clauses that state this fact are called "Stand Your Ground", "Line In The Sand" or "No Duty To Retreat" clauses, and state exactly that the defender has no duty or other requirement to abandon a place in which they have a right to be, or to give up ground to an assailant.
States often differentiate between altercations occurring inside a home or business and altercations in public places; there may be a duty to retreat from an assailant in public when there is no duty to retreat from one's own property, or there may be no duty to retreat from anywhere the defender may legally be.
Other restrictions may still exist; when in public, a person must be carrying the firearm in a legal manner, whether concealed or openly.
"Stand your ground" governs U.S. federal case law in which self-defense is asserted against a charge of criminal homicide. The Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. U.S. (1895) that a man who was "where he had the right to be" when he came under attack and "...did not provoke the assault, and had at the time reasonable grounds to believe, and in good faith believed, that the deceased intended to take his life, or do him great bodily harm...was not obliged to retreat, nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground."
Bolded by SKL
Originally posted by downtown436
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Soon they will be killing people with drone strikes in the USA.
And they will use these things to help them acquire the target.
Or just your cellphone.
Originally posted by abrowning
reply to post by Exuberant1
Using a drone to assassinate targets in the US would be absurd. It would cost to much, rile too many people up...
Originally posted by ghostryder21
thanks for the replies guys and as always SKL your a beacon in our dark world.
Originally posted by davespanners
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
The article says that the device was probably fitted while the car had been impounded, I'm not sure you can really go to an impound lot and shoot FBI officers under the castle doctrine.
The article also says that the man who found the device is on an FBI watch list and so was his father for having links to Muslim religious groups,
Not saying that makes it right mind youedit on 5-10-2010 by davespanners because: (no reason given)
Quote from : Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars
Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California.
Furthermore, this can be done even if your car is parked in your own driveway—a location that does not hold the same reasonable expectation of privacy as, say, a garage.