[agitator]

The commerce clause was originally intended to prohibit states from imposing tariffs on imports from other states. Nowadays, your brain is in interstate commerce because you thought about another state. Prosecutors nationwide are salivating over the prospect of getting around the annoying requirement of probable cause by simply claiming that any suspected criminal misuse or acquisition of currency constitutes a national security issue. FoxNews recently reported:

"The administration presented the Patriot Act to the Congress two years ago as a carefully tailored and limited piece of legislation specific to targeting terrorism. And now they're using it for purposes that are obviously and completely unrelated to terrorism," Barr told Foxnews.com.

According to an FBI official in Las Vegas, investigators used a provision in the Patriot Act that allows investigators easy access to the financial records of persons suspected of terrorism or money laundering. "

Due process anyone?

[The_Eaglet]

Due process anyone?

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
- Amendment V