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NYers to NYPD: 'I Do Not Consent to Being Searched'
The Village Voice ^ | July 21st, 200 | by Chisun Lee

Posted on 07/22/2005 11:06:07 AM PDT by BigFinn


Spend $16.99 so you can wear this to your grave

Reacting to the NYPD's announcement Thursday afternoon that police would randomly—but routinely—search the bags of commuters, one concerned New Yorker quickly created a way for civil libertarians to make their views black-and-white. In a few outraged moments, local immigrant rights activist Tony Lu designed t-shirts bearing the text, "i do not consent to being searched." The minimalist protest-wear can be purchased here, in various styles and sizes. (Lu will not get a cut. The shirts' manufacture, sale, and shipment, will be handled by the online retailer. Lu encourages budget-conscious New Yorkers to make their own and wear them everywhere.)

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had announced the legally obvious—that New Yorkers are free to decline a search and "turn around and leave." But Lu, who is a lawyer at Urban Justice Center, warned that even well-intentioned cops could interpret people's natural nervousness or anger as "reasonable suspicion." The possibility of unjustified interrogation and even arrest is real, Lu said.

Although police promised they would not engage in racial profiling, Lu said that, as with all street-level policing, people of color and poor immigrants would be particularly vulnerable, especially if encounters lead to arrests.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baaaaa; libertarianfools; nonprofiling; nothintohidehere; nyc; nypd; sheeple; stupidliberals; tshirt; villagevoiceisarag; wot
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To: durasell
It's about the potential for a search that might discourage the the bad guys. Get it?

Yeah, cuz terrorists are so easily discouraged. Anyway, what's to stop someone from exploding himself while he's waiting in line to be searched? Nothing.

221 posted on 07/22/2005 12:06:28 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: kellynla
Let me know when you ladies enlist and the least of your worries will be what's in your hanbags! LMAO

Pardon me saying so, but you're one rude SOB. It's a good thing you went into the Marine Corps, because the Corps really need knuckleheads with swingin' d!cks to take beachheads and stuff that frankly I'm not tough enough to do. You've proven you're top-notch at taking orders without thinking. Good job, Marine.

222 posted on 07/22/2005 12:07:10 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Sonny M

Did you by chance hear they guy filling in for Rush Limbaugh today? Rodger Hedgecock (sp?) - I heard him ranting about law enforcement in this country and how they are all under trained and always want more money - I didn't hear his rationale. He was talking about the shooting in LA where the man used his 2 year old as a sheild and they were both killed, he was calling the police idiots and how they needed to take a lesson from the police in London because of how they handled the shooting today. Comparing apples and oranges but I was pretty ticked off listening to him.


223 posted on 07/22/2005 12:07:15 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: SandyInSeattle; kellynla; RedRover

When there is a suicide/homicide bombing (either packpack or vehicle) at a school/hospital/shopping mall/supermarket (ie. Lodi sleeper cell)...will you consent to mandatory searches/1 mile vehicle exclusion zones(you walk in)around all these places also?


224 posted on 07/22/2005 12:07:41 PM PDT by Drago
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To: SALChamps03
The city is saying that as a condition of riding the subway, you might be subject to a bag search. If someone doesn't consent to the search, they are free to do two things: leave their bag at home, or not ride the subway. That is not a violation of the Constitution.

I think you are wrong. If you can't ride the public subway, then maybe you can't use the public parks, or walk on the public sidewalk either. You are basically saying that it within the consitution to make one housebound if they don't agree to random searches, and I don't think it is.

225 posted on 07/22/2005 12:07:56 PM PDT by Stu Cohen (Press '1' for English)
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To: Sabramerican
How about we just do away with the Fourth Amendment everywhere?

No, doesn't work for me. My point here is more along the line with post #186... if the NYPD is not allowed to search everyone then they can't search the nervous ME youth with the long bulky coat. I live on an island here in Washington State and we are subject to random searches to ride the ferry. If we were not in this terrorism battle I would not like it one bit but as it is better safe than sorry.

And not I don't think the war on terror is just an excuse to take our rights away from us.

226 posted on 07/22/2005 12:08:01 PM PDT by noexcuses
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To: savedbygrace
The only way to back it up at this point in time is to be a test case that goes to the USSC. No, not at all. The way to back up your case is read the 5th Ammendment and quote the passage that backs up your claim that random searches on municipal subways are unconstitutional. If you're convinced that our rights are being trampled, you must have a basis for that belief.
227 posted on 07/22/2005 12:08:03 PM PDT by RedRover
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To: BigFinn

I prefer my version.

228 posted on 07/22/2005 12:08:31 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Stu Cohen
Indeed, what exactly are they protecting anymore? Our borders are wide open, our every move is scrutinized, the "freedom and liberty" thing is pretty much extinct on the entire globe at this point.

My thoughts entirely. I don't know why good American men and women are being killed overseas so Iraqis can be "free," yet anyone with bad intent could merrily waltz over the Quebec/Maine border while good American citizens consent to having their persons examined in order to get on a subway train.

229 posted on 07/22/2005 12:08:46 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Sabramerican
On what is supposed to be a Conservative Constitutional website, the denizens are laughing at the assertion of the most basic of Constitutional rights.

Kinda makes one wonder how many of those denizens are paid to post their acquiescent views in order to assist in the manufacture of public consent.

Some of them may simply be scared dupes. But I suspect many are a fifth column for the globalists.

230 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:05 PM PDT by Freebird Forever (abolish islam)
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To: SALChamps03

A sincere thank you for replying in the spirit of this debate.

IMO, that argument doesn't answer the randomness question.

See my post #49, and you'll see I'm not saying searches are a 5th Amendment violation. Only random searches.


231 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:09 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: Sonny M

I have been following your posts on this thread. As a product of 3 generations of NYPD, I must thank you for your defense of the rank and file of New York's finest.


232 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:10 PM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) USSG Warning: Portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: BigFinn

"No, I'm sorry Lieutenant, I can't locate anything hidden in his pants."

233 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:23 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (I am the Keymaster. Are you the Gatekeeper?)
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To: Oberon

Quote: Actually, they work really well for concealed carry.



I guess I could stomach them in cammo colors. Just not lime green or pink.


234 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:35 PM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: BigFinn
This is not an abstract philosophical exercise, PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO KILL US.

Some people are so detached that they do not recognize the danger.

It makes sense that they should be against violence because they are so oblivious that they would surely be the first ones killed.
235 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:35 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The MSM is a cancer on our society)
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To: Sandy
On what is supposed to be a Republican Conservative Constitutional website.
236 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:35 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Sandy

Look, I live in NYC, ride the subway and have no trouble at all with the searches.

You can spend your whole life saying, "this is what they can do. This is a weak spot..." or you can assume the cops and others are doing their best to keep these idiots from bombing us.


237 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:44 PM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: xsrdx

Too funny - I know cops do watch COPS - but it is usually so that they can critique what the cops on the show are doing wrong.


238 posted on 07/22/2005 12:10:05 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: SandyInSeattle
I'm pretty sure there's no right to ride public transportation in the contitution, since public transportation didn't exist back then. (/Smartass mode.)

The next arguement will be that because it is a public road they should be able to search your vehicle or you cannot use it. Slippery slope and people here are eating it up.

239 posted on 07/22/2005 12:10:10 PM PDT by beltfed308 (Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunion.)
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To: Stu Cohen
If you have nothing to hide; then ya have no life

LOL. Good one.

240 posted on 07/22/2005 12:10:11 PM PDT by Sandy
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