Blinkinblogs covers lots of weird stuff, topics that even the writers from BB will debate amongst themselves. We have had some pretty epic verbal fisticuffs on BB on a few topics especially – almost all of those have the ability to have the stamp “Conspiracy Theory” attached to them. My thoughts on the term Conspiracy Theory are not hidden – a real Conspiracy is one where things are intentionally hidden from someone or something – ironically many things we talk about aren’t being hidden by anyone. Many of the topics brought up on BB, albeit are difficult to believe, are merely Blinkinblogs’ writers quoting some source – granted that source might be total bunk, which is typically the crux of the arguing that goes on here, but it is someone else who said something about someone or something else.

Time magazine recently crossed into the world of reporting on ichy topics that most people like to chalk up to Conspiracy Theorist nut jobs – catch is Time Magazine is Main Stream Media – meaning they are not some source which equates to a fat guy with too much free time on his hands coming up with scary stuff in his basement to brood over. No, Time Magazine has been around for decades and actually makes money based quite a bit on REALITY – well.. proposed reality really. So what did they report? Some scary crap.

“Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.” Is their opening paragraph for this article titled “The Government can use GPS to track your every move.”

If some other web source had reported this it would be EASY to chalk up as nut job conspiracy theorist government hate bullshit – but it’s Time Magazine – what do we do now? As I have said in recent times Newsweek has turned into a weird MSM news source that likes to report on stuff that conspiracy theorists do as well – and they are also MSM – so WTF is going on? Is this crap real? Can the government really do this?

Apparently there was a series of court cases in California whereby it was deemed totally ok to do this to people. “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant.” NO SEARCH WARRANT? Hmmm. Well they aren’t searching you, technically, they are tracking you – so I can see the loop hole, however that doesn’t make it any less creepy for me. What this really tells me is that parking your car outside your garage is a bad bad idea – but then – you have to drive it somewhere right? Say you park at a restaurant – tracking device installment opportunity.

My favorite part is this: “Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month’s decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people’s. The court’s ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night.” Sure is nice to be rich – except I am not.

“Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. “There’s been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there’s one kind of diversity that doesn’t exist,” he wrote. “No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter.” The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of “cultural elitism.”" Think about that for minute – again if you are rich this ruling doesn’t apply to you. How nice.

Of course  it is probably all conspiracy theory bullshit right?