Imagine Trump voters reading this EXACT headline during Biden's presidency. They would have lost their minds. They wouldn't take a vaccine because they thought there was a 5g chip in it, but this is ok?
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4th Amendment, fare thee well... Nice to have known you.
4th Amendment doesn't even specify "citizens", it's "the people".
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I'm sure they have a warrant to sieze your image, right? Um... right? 😉
The most amazing, revolutionary thing about the Constitution was that its rights applied to everyone within its jurisdiction, not just citizens.
Everyone knows this random DHS document supercedes the constitution. All the best people are saying it
Guess that will be tested when a lawyer is told to scan their face.
This is scary:
On Wednesday, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson told 404 Media in a statement that ICE will prioritize the results of the app over birth certificates. “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien,” he said. “ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Yeah I’m really glad DHS doesn’t get to arbitrarily override the constitution
That’s ok, they’ll just get their pals at the Supreme Court to make a ruling in their favor.
Y’all acting like the rule of law still applies. Smdh
Oh so this document is the one with the real laws. All the other documents that say they can't do the things they are doing are invalid but we better respect this one! Or else
You can probably refuse not to make a Funny face
They're fine with that, makes it more likely the app won't recognize you. And if the app doesn't recognize you then straight into the unmarked van never to be seen again.
Do all the things they tell you not to do on your passport and driver's license photos.
Just wear a mask like they do?
They make you lower the mask to get scanned, this won’t work unfortunately.
I'm starting to think this is necessary. Don't use a scary mask like they do, a medical one is good enough, because you don't want to be the reason other people get sick. Or because you are at risk of getting sick. Or because you don't like the taste of boot.
Shades that cover a large area helps too.
Oakleys: They're not just for MAGA any more!
Zenni makes a privacy coating that blocks IR cameras that normally see through sunglasses.
I spent a little extra on good Ray-Bans RX.
They hide a good area WHILE making me look like a fed in the right clothes and hat. It's really eerie.
It's starting to get cold where I'm at.... face coverings help keep you warm!
Need to get one of those terrible :3 masks. No way anyone wearing one of those is threatening.
The fuck they can. I swear to Christ, Trump could say he's going to do the mark of the beast so liberals can't buy anything and every maggot on this planet would jump at the chance to get the mark. Irony and hypocrisy are lost on them
If you go to a protest, wear a gaiter and glasses and ballcap just like those ICE fuckers. And depending where you live you might just want to make this your default outfit for leaving the house at all.
The U.S. Department of Defense quickly viewed biometric data and what it called “identity dominance” as the cornerstone of multiple counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies. Identity dominance means being able to keep track of people the military considers a potential threat regardless of aliases, and ultimately denying organizations the ability to use anonymity to hide their activities.
By 2004, thousands of U.S. military personnel had been trained to collect biometric data to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. By 2007, U.S. forces were collecting biometric data primarily through mobile devices such as the Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) and Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE). BAT includes a laptop, fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera. HIIDE is a single small device that incorporates a fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera. Users of these devices can collect iris and fingerprint scans and facial photos, and match them to entries in military databases and biometric watchlists.
The book First Platoon, while not the best book in the world, is pretty interesting and depressing on that subject. Might be worth an audiobook listen.
Therefore these are going to sell out:

So you're all going to make yourselves look like me. Great. REAL HELPFUL, THANKS.
Any ICE or DHS employees who try to scan my face aren't allowed to walk away unscathed.
What open source technologies does it use? Someone could do a supply-side attack.
Why don't Democrats run on a privacy platform. Sure there's Senator Wyden, but other dems need to be on this. Pivot and make the Democratic party the privacy party.
Stop wishing for the democrats to come and save you. They never will, we have to do it ourselves.
Democrats will do nothing. Trump is right when he calls them “do-nothing democrats”. All they do is sit in their high castle and say “why can’t we all just get along?”.
Democrats are not your friends, they work for the same people as maga/nazis.
We have a nazi problem. There is no app, or voting, or debating, or rationalizing that will get rid of it. The only way to rid yourself of cancer is to take the really painful medicine, and americans aren't ready to do that yet.
And unless they can show me a warrant, I'll be wearing a mask.
They will just beat the shit out of you and pull down your mask and do it regardless
And this is exactly what the Second Amendment is designed for.
Don't tell the GOP that though
Better dead than in a concentration camp. If they assault someone violently, it's more likely to turn heads (especially if they're a US citizen. For some reason.)
Someone should do this to the entire Trump staff when they trespass back in from their luxury vacation to Asia.

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