Cool Justice: Like sick cattle, students tagged with tracking
devices Just like diseased cattle and other livestock, students
throughout the U.S. are being forced to wear ID cards with GPS
chips. The chips monitor the movements of students on campus,
tracking them as they go to and from school. They also allow
school officials to take attendance without having to interact
much with their charges. Sounds like good preparation for jail
or slave labor. What’s next: dog leashes? Chips in our bodies?
Unfortunately, citizens cannot expect the federal courts to
protect us from these heinous intrusions or other violations of
the Bill of Rights. From the early days of our republic to the
present, the theory of checks and balances has all too often
been nothing more than a theory. For example, in 1791 with the
enactment of the first 10 amendments, it looked like Congress
could make no law “abridging freedom of speech, or of the
press.” Then, in 1798, Congress passed a law abridging freedom
of speech and the press. The