Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!homxa!gritz From: gritz@homxa.UUCP (R.SHARPLES) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: (A Sermon on) Radar Surveillance Message-ID: <1097@homxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 10:46:27 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.1097 Posted: Mon Aug 12 10:46:27 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 20:49:29 EDT References: <2493@pegasus.UUCP>, <1456@peora.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 21 >From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch).... > Give me a break!! How can anyone insist that operating an > automobile on a public highway is a private act? It stretchs > the definition of privacy all out of its normal limits. > Operating an automobile on a public highway is part of your > public behavior.............. if driving a car on a public highway is not a private act, then it can be argued that walking on a public sidewalk is not a private act. If walking on a public sidewalk is not a private act then walking on a public sidewalk talking to someone is not a private act. THEREFORE, if the govt. can use radar to monitor your car's speed, the govt. can use electronic evesdropping devices to monitor the conversations that you conduct while walking down the sidewalk! Now does that sound Constitutional??? I am a firm believer that the govt. will try anything it can to stick its nose in your business. This radar detector legislation is just another step in that direction. Russ Sharples homxa!gritz