Posted on 05/17/2011 2:59:28 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
CROWN POINT, Ind. – According to Newton County Sheriff, Don Hartman Sr., random house to house searches are now possible and could be helpful following the Barnes v. STATE of INDIANA Supreme Court ruling issued on May 12th, 2011. When asked three separate times due to the astounding callousness as it relates to trampling the inherent natural rights of Americans, he emphatically indicated that he would use random house to house checks, adding he felt people will welcome random searches if it means capturing a criminal.
Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a local city Police Chief with 30 years experience in law enforcement directly contradicted the Newton County Sheriff’s blatant disregard for privacy & liberty, stating that as an American first, such an action is unconscionable and that his allegiance is to the Indiana and federal Constitutions respectively. However, he also concurred that the ruling does now allow for police to randomly search homes should a department be under order by state or federal officials or under a department’s own accord.
At this time we are still awaiting comments from several state offices.
However, the spokesperson for the INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL took umbrage at what he referred to as “large” assumptions regarding police power and at this time has no comment. He did however indicate that should the INDIANA Attorney General, Greg Zoeller feel it necessary to make a statement, that this reporter would be included in the distribution of the release.
Where’s the ACLU when you finally need them?
Ping!
Somebody is going to get killed.
When this idiot starts randomly going into people’s house’s people are going to start arming themselves to stop it.
Police will lose any respect they have left. They will then be the Gestapo.
SCOTUS need to hear this immediately, before the insurrection starts in Indiana.
My suggestion would be that they start with the Sheriff’s home first about 2 am one night, then his other relative’s homes accordingly.
What a communist bastard!!!!!
People say they’d accept random house searches...but when they come to their house and hint they might open every single drawer....then folks suddenly lose their patience for this. I’d like to offer up a suggestion for strong-armed police tactics and incompetence...make each police force post a $5 million dollar bond before a judge accepts the search warrant. You screw up the house warrant or pick the wrong house? You lose the $5 million. Suddenly, the mayor and city council would personally want to get involved in every single search warrant and personally ask questions. Cops would eventually lose most of the support for search warrants unless they really had great reasons. Call it bounty-hunting in reverse...with a posted bond to do things the right way.
Until the bullies in blue are put in their place, things will get worse.
maybe he can catch some illegal aliens and dangerous muzzies that live down there in TN
Who the hell does he think he is? A census worker?
They already heard it in Kentucky almost similar law only one Justice dissented, I give you a guess who that was.
Great idea.
What a mess, can you imaging giving the cops more power? Around here the cops either act like thugs or treat us like ATM machines. I no longer have any use for them.
This is a drug warrior’s wet dream. Hey, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. /s
The pendulum always swings too far.
The silver lining here is that it has swung too far and there will be a huge backlash that will reverse this thinking.
US scotus can’t read either!
The 4th amendment is quite clear, even to grade schoolers.
The puzzling thing is, why Indiana? Indiana is not particularly known to be peopled with jack boot licking wowsers, poor metro areas like Gary excepted.
They need to start with the houses of the Indiana Supreme court “justice”.
The gestapo was highly feared by a disarmed populace. These cops if they act on the sheriff's words will not lose respect. They will lose their lives-- and rightly so..
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