Posted on 07/09/2009 12:41:39 PM PDT by BGHater
We do? I hadn't noticed. I was too distracted by the giant sucking sound generated as SCOTUS snatches from me anything vaguely resembling a civil right.
Well, he's terrified of us, so I guess it's technically correct. ;-)
Can we just stop right here and decide drugs are OK? Please? Not a druggie. Have never done drugs other than alcohol, caffeine, etc. Not even once. But I’d rather live on a street full of hopheads than have even a single civil right weakened by so much as 1%. I’m not willing to live under totalitarian rule just to enable a futile, expensive attempt to insure my neighbors aren’t getting high.
I don’t think you can ever legalize most of them. Maybe pot. The users are just such a drain on society. They would still have to steal to pay the rent. Cops just need to respect the law or watch cases get thrown out. Your average druggie is pretty stupid and if you don’t get him this time, you will the next. Some of this is just that the kind of person you need to be a cop, is often the kind of person who likes to abuse his power.
parsy, who thinks the courts have to start disrespecting the police until the police can earn it back. (and no, I don’t think all cops are bad, it just that cops tend to act like cops)
Actually that would be the best outcome from my perspective (jealous of civil rights, not fond of drugs), but the goobermints, federal state and lokel, seem to be incapable of operating in the mode you describe.
That is why the courts have the exclusionary rule of evidence. Evidence obtained illegally can be suppressed. The court basically said that was the only way they could keep the cops honest. A pretty telling comment on the polizei.
A more “liberal” court may actually start cutting back further on illegal cop activity, such as pretextural stops.
parsy, who used to like Dirty Harry
I have mixed feelings about liberals on SCOTUS. While they have the reputation as defenders of the BOR, the ones on board now seem as much or more statist and government-sucking than the “conservatives”.
Maybe so. I don’t follow them as much as I need to.
parsy, who wishes he had more time to keep up
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