Posted on 05/15/2011 2:20:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
How many oxymoron jokes can there be? A lot, I can assure you. One of the most common examples would be military intelligence
, with the phrase amicable divorce
close behind.
My personal favorite has to be a phrase used over and over (and probably one of the first any of us ever heard): common sense
.
Rick Moran's AT blog entry on May 14 titled " IN Court Says No Right To Resist Illegal Police Entry To Your Home
" does a great job illustrating the out-of-control nature of our judiciary.
It seems that last Thursday, the Indiana Supreme Court decided that there is absolutely no reason for a private citizen to prevent a police officer from invading said citizen's home. To paraphrase that great legislator, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the court apparently doesn't worry about "little legality" things like search warrants or probable cause being impediments to what amounts to uniformed breaking and entering.
Keep the central idea of this decision in mind. A police officer -- with no probable cause, not in hot pursuit, and without a judicially approved search warrant -- is now empowered not only to enter any home, but also to arrest any and all residents of said home if the residents do anything to impede his entry. Private citizens can now be subjected to unrestricted searches of their homes, possessions, and (I would infer) persons at the whim of any police officer.
At the same time, the State of Arizona has been told, in a ruling from a different court, that it is illegal to even ask for identification from any person unless it is done subsequent to the commission of a crime that results in an arrest.
So we have two courts -- both with judges who are graduates of the same types of law schools, who have been "vetted" by the American Bar Association and appointed by either a state or federal chief executive -- who have decided that:
a. You have absolutely no right to protection as described in the Fourth Amendment, which assures (for those of you preparing for the test at the end of class):
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
b. This same government has absolutely no right to invade your privacy even to the extent of asking for identification.
This is the reason why I consistently vote for common sense
as the ultimate oxymoron. Apparently, sense is not a common commodity within judicial circles.
Even in the 60s I could not understand what was oxymoronic about “military intelligence”, I still don’t.
You kill the Cop and then plead fear for life due to the illegal home invasion. Since the “person” in a cop’s uniform could be an imposter to protect your family and possessions.
Police protection.....
I absolutely hate career politician and permanent part time.
My favorite oxymoron is Christian - Democrat.
Congressional ethics
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Go join up for a few years and it will come to you.
Any branch will do. Guard and reserve don’t count.
I’m an Army veteran, and later in the Guard, I worked for a MI unit while in a LRRP/LRS Company, I don’t get it.
By the way the MI battalion that we worked for was active.
Happily married
The problem was simple. A procedure and an unbending rule for everything. None of it tested in the real world till the shooting started. Then after the bodies start to pile up sometimes a brain cell turns on the the rule book get thrown out. the problem with wars like Korea and Nam is that it took a long time for the body count to inspire any brain cells to turn on.
It had nothing to do with the intelligence gathering operation run by all branches of the service. It has everything to do with the day to day adherence to mind breaking stupid rules written for an age that is long gone. sometimes centuries in the past. Starting with the haircut. Original it was to find and treat lice.
The reason guard and reserve service don’t count is cause they are sometimes the ones to bring some ideas into the madness. Too much of that exposure to the civilian world as an adult will do that.
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