“Could you maybe say that with different words, because I cannot understand.” -———
Ok. Sorry. Let me try again.
1. Relatively few believe there is “no probable cause”.
2. But, because these few believe it, then they seem to deem it true, and therefore it has to be true.
The typical observer does not know that to be the truth just because a few believe it and say it.
The typical observer seems broadly willing to see it all proven IN COURT.
Is that bad?
In my opinion it IS bad; it is VERY bad. It is bad because a valuable and precious restraint on governmental power has been ignored. And a dangerous precedent is being set. The Fourth Amendment is a restraint on arbitrary and capricious government actions.
Do you seriously believe that 177 people came to the Twin Peaks with a criminal intent? The DA says that they did, although the cookie cutter rubber stamp affidavit is bereft of any individualized evidence.
Some of the 177 are, no doubt in my mind, guilty of felony crimes, perhaps also conspiracy. But all 177? THERE is your "bridge too far."
This won’t see a court. At least not in years. See Ludlow Massacre and Kent State.
“The process is the punishment”