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To: AndyJackson
The ACLU argument is a red-herring.

From the article you're embracing:

As the American Civil Liberties Union puts it, "There was no reason to suspect that a thirteen-year-old honor-roll student with a clean disciplinary record had adopted drug-smuggling practices associated with international narcotrafficking, or to suppose that other middle-school students would willingly consume ibuprofen that was stored in another student's crotch."

It is WE THE PEOPLE who set the standards of our society.

And you want the federal courts to take those local powers away.

1,174 posted on 04/06/2008 10:58:51 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave
It is WE THE PEOPLE who set the standards of our society.--- And you want the federal courts to take those local powers away.

There is no local power to violate the 4th amendment. The people of the State of Arizona conceded that in their own constitution.

1,180 posted on 04/06/2008 11:05:37 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Mojave
As the American Civil Liberties Union puts it, "There was no reason to suspect that a thirteen-year-old honor-roll student with a clean disciplinary record had adopted drug-smuggling practices associated with international narcotrafficking, or to suppose that other middle-school students would willingly consume ibuprofen that was stored in another student's crotch."

This is an ad hominem. The reasonability of the argument stands or falls on its own merits, and whether or not it was espoused by the ACLU.

1,181 posted on 04/06/2008 11:07:36 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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