Hate The Thought Of Government GPS Tracking?

Many of my readers do, judging by many emails and calls I get.  I don’t blame them, I’ve written here more than once why I feel wholesale tracking blitzes are wrong from both a privacy standpoint and an economic time bomb that most governments have failed to consider.  But in the good old USA, who ya gonna call?

Wonder why Britain, a country still ruled by what is technically not a democracy has to always show us Norte Amerikanos the way, even though we spout the term democracy at the drop of a hat.  Does any college actually teach the meaning of democracy, or is it just another of “Shrub’s” buzzwords to bamboozle the “fly over people” . (RIP< Mollie Ivins, your life was too short but you spent what you had wisely)

Here’s an interesting news item:

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has received more than 1 million signatures on electronic petitions since 10 Downing Street began accepting them in November.

Blair’s office reported this week that the e-petitions encouraged people to state their views and engage in dialogue. The one-millionth petitioner signed a request that live music and dance be protected from regulation, officials said during a morning briefing this week.

The e-petition service is still in beta. Web site visitors can view the petitions online by popularity ranking, or beginning with the most recently submitted petition. Two of the top five most popular petition topics relate to technology.

One protests a planned switch to national identity cards. The petition protesting the ID cards states that the cards won’t prevent terrorism or crime. Another opposes vehicle tracking. That one had more than 637,500 signatures by Friday morning.

“The idea of tracking vehicles at all times is sinister and wrong,” the most popular petition states.

Blair’s office announced that the Web site hosted 2,410 live petitions Wednesday morning, when the one-millionth petitioner signed. People submitted 4,391 separate e-petitions since officials launched the e-petitions page Nov. 13. Officials rejected 1,008 petitions for not meeting terms and conditions. Rejected petitions are posted separately for transparency…. full article here:

Notice that the second most popular electronic petition seems to be giving the British government the clear message that people don’t want large-scale governmental GPS tracking?

Can you even begin to imagine “Shrub” or the rest of his ‘we know best” boys even considering the thought of an official web site where citizens (who are really supposed to be the boss) have legitimate place to register their opinion?  Opinion?  They have an opinion?  Is that even legal?  If you’re not with me you must be one of the Axis of Evil.

Yes indeed the question of proper use and control of GPS tracking is a real issue.  And yes the people with the final say on the matter reside elsewhere than within the Beltway.  But will they ever be heard?