I've seen one of these somewhere else:
Posted on 01/03/2006 4:23:08 PM PST by SandRat
I've seen one of these somewhere else:
And count one staunch conservative.
You may be thinking of the war on terror but I am concerned with unrelated applications.
welcome aboard!
Exactly.
Except if we're scared. Then anything is reasonable.
/gagging sarcasm
I'm not sure which is worse, your apparent lack of knowledge regarding the Constitution or the seeming lack of a backbone that you portrayed in that post.
Here's a hint. . .
We don't get our rights from the Constitution. Or from the government.
Here's another. . .
Rights do not have to be named to exist.
Clue #3. . .
If we have no right to privacy, why would it even be necessary to remind the government that it "...SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED"?
But who gets it first, our troops overseas, or the local cops looking to see what you may own?
What does an honest person have to fear? I wish they had gotten a warrant for Moussaui.
There's a picture of one over here...
http://kotp.blogspot.com/2006/01/pentagon-20-eyes-like-supermans.html
If an honest person has nothing to fear, then why did the founding fathers prohibit warrantless searches? And if you want warrantless searches, then why can't you just repeal the Fourth Amendment and be honest about it rather than trying to sidestep it?
Nope. How do you think I got a lot of the stuff I use? I follow the Milton Berle theory; "I'll steal no joke line or image until it's time."
In my opinion (and I think that of most reasonable people) a judge is capable of determining if a search was reasonable either subsequent to or prior to a search. In effect your rights are still protected to the same extent.
Of course you need an honest judge. The older I get the more I realize those are few and far between.
For starters, the motive behind anyone who advances a sophistic argument such as that.
You have nothing to worry about from me - my motives are to ensure that people don't have to choose between being burned to death or leaping out a window to a certain death. If Americans have business with Osama and his friends, I hope there are people listening in.
Due to the number of warrants that have been denied the Bush administration and the various leaks to the media, I would prefer that warrantless searches be made rather than no searches at all.
Sometimes i make my own like this one but my better ones are hand drawn but with the lack of a scanner it's hard to get'em to the net !
Can it work to see IED's buried in the ground?
They shouldn't worry: the technology described can only see through concrete; it hasn't a prayer of penetrating a Liberal's skull.
The populist view of rights is that they must be enumerated to exist. That is incorrect.
The Federalists argued, correctly, that an enumeration such as the Bill of Rights (BOR) would lead to the erroneous conclusion that those rights not enumerated were not reposed in the people. Please see Federalist No. 84, here: http://patriotpost.us/fedpapers/fed_84.html
The Anti-Federalists however, refused to ratify the Constitution without a specific enumeration of rights. Ultimately the Federalists acquiesced, and in exchange for Anti-Federalist support and ratification of the Constitution, agreed to include a BOR at their first opportunity.
The proposed BOR can be found here: http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/madamend.htm
The people never surrendered or delegated their right of privacy, or control thereof to the government. In teh case of Griswold v. Connecticut, it was therefore entirely unnecessary for the Supremes to examine the emanations of the prenumbras of the BOR to "FIND" a right of privacy or make one up....we never surrendered it in the first place.
The Fourth Amendment is likewise superfluous to a free people, where the only authorized government action, or delegated authority, is specifically enumerated in the body of the Constitution. Absent a specific grant of authority to search, there is no authority to search.
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