Thermal Imaging to See Inside Private Residences - Patriot Act?

Many druggies want to keep their little drug salesfugitives or rabbits (those trying to evade police).
Home Business to themselves and they do not wantToday there are now even hand held units that do
the US Government or even local law enforcement toultrasound through walls and other technology and
use thermal imaging to see if they are growingeven being used in Iraq. The special ops military uses
something in there or cooking up some toxic crystalthem and you can buy one if you know where to look
meth. I guess that makes sense, no body wants to gosuch as Soldier of Fortune Magazine. You just need a
to jail, even if they are breaking the law and poisoninggood reason, for instance you work for animal control
the minds of our children right?agencies volunteering the night shift or have a big
Well then, I would like to talk about the use of thermalgame hunting licence. That is what we told them and
images in for seeing into homes. It was determined bythey said they could sell us a unit. WOW, that was
the Supreme Court on June 11, 2001 that this could notwith one phone call.
be used, yet many policing agencies still use it all theGo to the US Supreme Court website and click on
time and make up all sorts of excuses then go find"opinions" then click on "Latest Slip Opinions" then click
some bogus witness to say they are growing oron "Kyllo Vs. United States" This was the case where
manufacturing drugs in there to get a search warrant.the bozo in OR was growing marijuana in his home
In fact there have been cases that even though it isand they used a thermal scanner to see the heat
not allowed some agencies still use this greatlamps that were way off the spectrum.
technology to catch criminals such as the DEA, FBI,It is interesting stuff, although the Constitution Crowd is
Boarder Patrol, etc.a little upset with Big Government and Big Brother and
Indeed, as a matter of fact in AirBeat Magazine therethe drug runners, dealers, growers and cookers are
was an article in June of 2002 there was a killer articlenow developing ways to shield the heat signatures and
about the use on all modern metro police helicoptersthus the war on drugs just got a little more high-tech
which use this technology to catch fleeing on footindeed; on both sides. Consider all this in 2006.