a federal study...woooooo
I cannot imagine for even a New York Second that the hundreds of delegates for the convention that proposed the original 10 Amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of Rights), and those members of the legislatures in each of the 13 States who debated and then voted to ratify those Amendments would think that the Fourth Amendment would allow a federal official to stop each traveler crossing every state line and copy the contents of every saddle bag and every carriage box of documents, just in case in some future dispute the evidence would easily be retrieved upon perfunctory approval by a federal magistrate.
The ONLY means to prevent government from violating the Fourth as plainly as they currently do is to prevent them from having the means to do so. It should be clear that government will always give itself permission to do something that it dearly wants to do, no matter how much it violates the plain letter of the Bill of Rights.
We need to limit the ability of the government to do this kind of mass data collection. it violates our liberties, it’s unconstitutional, and it is unnecessary.
Well gosh, if they say they need it and there is no alternative, I guess we shouldn’t oppose it.
But I wonder then, why are they bringing in tens of millions of Mexicans, and millions of every stripe of moslem they can from the worst countries, selling weapon to the Syrian al qeida, and arming the cartels, refusing to deport the Tsarnaev brothers, focusing on TEA as a terrorist group, promoting Major Hassan when he was writing to anwar al alwaki, and bringing in all the skinnies from Blackhawk down?
Oh, I thought the saying was: “There ain’t no substitute for cubes”.
Just a further indicator that we’ve lost our government.
It runs on its own inertia now.
You can’t even react fast enough to the constant tyranny on display these days with a government for sale to the highest bidder.
And a press totally abandoning it’s historical responsibility to become an advocate for that tyranny. As long as its the tyranny they agree with.