Exactly? You'd actually have to take the time to read the case and get all the facts. I know how much you hate that, preferring to rely on your feelings about the case, unencumbered by the truth.
I provided a link in my post #234. It went beyond a mere accusation by one student.
In the future, when you see an article like this, check the source and the author. I do.
Jacob Sullum is a big time, pro-drug Libertarian and so's his rag, Reason. He'll do anything to smear anti-drug efforts. You should know this by now. You've been around. Why do you take his word at face value?
Read the case and get back to me.
And this is how the usurpers of the world work.
This country did not move through the doors of Kelo in a single leap, but in a series of small steps, each one ostensibly reasonable with the previous step as a precedent. But the final destination, that of taking private property for the simple reason of improving tax revenues while transferring ownership to another private party, is an abomination of the clear meaning and public purpose of eminent domain as laid down in the Bill of Rights. Even Sandra Day O'Conner got that.
And now, here you go again. You cite a legal precedent where there was more evidence than just the claims of another student to justify a search - as somehow being precent to justify a search of a student where the ONLY evidence was the claims of a studen with motive to lie.
Incrementalism at its totalitarian worst.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting reading. However, nothing there changes the basic facts of this case; your link simply gave more detail about the basics we already knew: the second girl was implicated on nothing but the word of the first girl---who sounded even more like a troublemaker than I thought she was---and nothing more. We return to where we began: from uncorroborated accusation to strip search. I find it absolutely appalling you think there is nothing wrong with that. Fundamentally, this is no different from the cops giving you the commander-one-hander because some random passer-by on the street fingered you as a drug mule. I doubt you would be okay with that if it happened to you.