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To: Lazamataz
...ruling that drug-sniffing dogs can be used to check out motorists even if officers have no reason to suspect they may be carrying narcotics.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - T. Jefferson
19 posted on 01/24/2005 9:33:47 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: oh8eleven
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - T. Jefferson

Yeah. T.J. was prescient, or actually, just observant. Even our beneficant government, whilst once on the side of 'the people', have turned into the oppressors.

Only problem is, there's no New Frontier to go to any more. We're stuck.

32 posted on 01/24/2005 9:40:17 AM PST by Lazamataz
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To: oh8eleven
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - T. Jefferson

BUMP!

584 posted on 01/25/2005 3:34:42 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" - Hillary Clinton)
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