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To: AM2000
"In all of its forms, however, the right of privacy must be balanced against the state's compelling interests. Such compelling interests include the promotion of public morality, protection of the individual's psychological health, and improving the quality of life."

This is preposterous!

And in addition, these are considered "state's compelling interests", while keeping us alive and unharmed from terrorist attacks isn't. ( Not because it isn't mentioned, but because judges keep ruling against it and civil rights activists claim that the right to privacy is more important. I guess the states interests override privacy, when it's about government intrusion for no particular reason, other than exercise power, but not, when it actually really relates to safety and lives, as in survival.)

22 posted on 07/04/2004 6:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: FairOpinion
And in addition, these are considered "state's compelling interests", while keeping us alive and unharmed from terrorist attacks isn't.

Even if "keeping us alive and unharmed from terrorist attacks" was considered a compelling interest of the state, that could still be used to justify mental screening of the general population. Certainly, the argument could be made, by those looking to justify a general mental screening scheme, that potential terrorists fit a certain psychological profile (or set of profiles), which could be detected through the program.

The problem, as I see it, is not that the definition of states compelling interest isn't inclusive enough, the problem is that it already includes too much.

28 posted on 07/04/2004 7:02:31 PM PDT by AM2000
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