[Luis Gonzalez]

"To think that a warrant was needed to search the 20th Hi-jacker and Frenchie Z.M.'s computer is to put his alienable right to be secure in his personal effects, above New Yorkers' unalienable rights to life and property. Priorities."

What was it that was said about people willing to sacrifice a little freedom in exchange for a little safety?

Somewhere out there, there could conceivably be another Tim McVeigh, another Ted Kazinski, another Charles Whitman...tell me Hugh, how do you find them before they break the law without violating the Constitution?

You'll answer something along the line of there being a difference between citizens and non citizens.

I guess to you, the Declaration of Independence, and the principles under which this Nation was founded, are just so many empty words.

I won't answer your next post.

[H.Akston]

Come on over, where there's a great article on how hesitation over a foreigner's non-existent 4th Amendment rights helped cause 9/11:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/738376/posts

The opinion may be important in documenting why the F.B.I. was hesitant last summer to seek court authority to search the computer and other belongings of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mr. Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota last August, and F.B.I. officials have acknowledged that their failure to investigate him more fully was among the mistakes that allowed the Sept. 11 hijackers to operate in the United States undetected in the weeks before the attacks.

(You might be interested, assuming you think the 9/11 attacks were worse than an unwarranted search and seizure of a foreigner's computer would be.)

[H.Akston]

"I won't answer your next post."

You haven't satisfactorily answered any of my posts, except the one where you posted the quote from Phyler vs. Doe.

That was quite an interesting case. Wonder how the Supreme Court got around the 11th Amendment on that one?