Posted on 03/23/2014 6:34:06 PM PDT by Altariel
The statists are at it again, trying to transform Texas ping.
Is there probably cause when the issue is a meth lab? Have you seen what happens to a meth lab gone bad? boooom....
Apparently, all Texas police require to search a home, indefinitely detain its occupants, and THEN ask that a warrant be issued is a confidential informant. …Sounds just like Soviet Russia. So where is Rick Perry on this?
no way... in Texas? can’t be... not in Texas... say it isn’t so, Joe...
That’ll.get over turned....
Let’s not forget the supreme court ruled that the 5th amendment no longer applies in that your silence can be used against you.
I wish I shared your confidence on that. The trend lately has been towards statism.
Insane court rulings are a great danger to America
I think you’re cooking meth. We don’t want your house to go boom, do we? Let’s just search it then. Oh you weren’t cooking meth. Sorry! We’ll get those guns back to you a few years after you fill out the paperwork.
I bet I can get someone to say that Hairless Reid, Nazi Pelosi and Zero have meth labs in their basements. Just look at the way they act!
This is the same disease that permits these idiotic and unconstitutional ‘DUI’ checkpoints. The courts KNEW that there was no legal basis for them, they outright said so in rulings, but faced with the prospect of overturning hundreds of DUI convictions, at least 5 murder convictions, and other major felonies, the courts chickened out, and then started providing ‘guidelines’ to officers which they outright ignore.
It is the same decision that Governor Mitt Romney faced when the Massachusetts State Supreme Court played chicken: could he let the state no longer regulate marriages to protect marriage from the ruling? The answer was no, and he caved to legislation from the bench.
It takes a strength of conviction to stand up and be counted when faced with such questions, a strength that has been leeching out of our society with every passing year.
The best way to fight this chain of events is to make laws that make it a crime for officers to back door evidence discovery, and then go after officers who do try to ignore the will of the people. For cities to outlaw DUI and license checkpoints, and make it a felony to pull over people without probable cause.
The courts may be insane, but in the end, no matter what people may state on this forum, there is no way to govern the United States without the consent of the people. No billion bullet stashes will change that.
Transform my foot.
The problem has always been with the law and order conservative fetishists in Texas.
It was their kind throughout the country that gave us the Drug war and all its constitutional violations.
Don't count on it. Scalia and the other court conservatives rarely see a police tactic they don't approve of.
When was that? What case?
Salinas v. Texas, June 2013.
I’m taking Texas off my list of places to live.
Are the judges on this case conservatives?
It’s true your statement re police tactics the Atwater case via SCOTUS conservatives gave police the right to arrest on a misdemeanor alone
Now we have jaywalk arrests...it SUCKS!
Nothing like rewarding shoddy police work!
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