Posted on 03/27/2008 6:29:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I’m shocked!
” defense lawyer Charles O’Hara argued that the Patriot Act was meant for “serious matters involving national security,” not drug cases like the one involving his client, Tyrone Andrews.”
Wonder is his attitude would change if Tyrone turned his daughter into a crack whore?
IF, not is....
Didn’t see this coming.
As far as I'm concerned, drug trafficers are terrorists. The bring violence to our nation and harm our people, the funds often trace back to terrorist or repressive activities around the world.
Well, at least they will never come for our guns. /s
“Wonder is his attitude would change if Tyrone turned his daughter into a crack whore?”
Probably, does that change his argument though? Either we have rights protected by the Constitution or we don’t. If the govt picks and chooses what rights they allow us to keep and which laws they obey themselves then we are not a free country.
Freedom is more important to me than the life choices somebody else makes for themselves.
To play devil’s advocate, at least they didn’t no-knock it, and kill someone.
If you want to stop the violence and the money flow, decriminalize it. People don’t shoot each other over booze - but they did during Prohibition.
Wonder is his attitude would change if Tyrone turned his daughter into a crack whore?
I think it is the parent's job to best ensure the daughter does not become a crack whore before adulthood.
Your question deviates from the subject and his statement. We do not want this camel to get its nose in the tent.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists but some terrorists do use drugs to finance their activities. To imply otherwise is to open the door wide for complete revocation of all natural rights enjoyed by Americans. We've spent billions on the war on drugs. The only answer law enforcement seems to have is that we have too many rights.
You must remember lawyers have two roles. If it turned his daughter then he would be a father and someone else would have to defend the criminal. It is all about money,common sense and justice plays not part into a lawyers livelyhood
or so called profession.The Criminal Justice System in America is a farce.
So are people who own guns. Ask any federal prosecutor who wants to take a run at a gun owner under the Patriot Act.
Like we all didn’t see this coming, eh?
How silly.
“As far as I’m concerned, drug trafficers are terrorists. The bring violence to our nation and harm our people, the funds often trace back to terrorist or repressive activities around the world.”
Nonsense. You apply this to drug traffickers, you start the slippery slope. Who’s next? Where will a president like Hillary Clinton or Hussein Obama apply this? The Patriot Act was intended to stop true terrorist acts like 9/11.
I have already seen some of these laws be used to go after things outside of terrorism. Once again, my libertarian streak proves itself right. The government should not be trusted with too much authority.
The Crips gang distributing drugs? Rev. Wright says it’s our government doing it.
Heh heh heh.
Would your attitude about the Constitutionality of the Second Amendment change if your daughter were shot?
The Constitution is evidently a "living document" when it suits you.
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