Posted on 01/26/2009 8:05:38 PM PST by jiggyboy
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police officers have leeway to frisk a passenger in a car stopped for a traffic violation even if nothing indicates the passenger has committed a crime or is about to do so.
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The pat-down is allowed if the police "harbor reasonable suspicion that a person subjected to the frisk is armed, and therefore dangerous to the safety of the police and public," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.
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The case is Arizona v. Johnson, 07-1122.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The very last time I flew in 2002, I had already decided that flying just wasn’t worth it. My wife and I got the “special treatment” while it looked like a 10 man unit of the crips street gang complete with raggedy dress and bandannas were just waved through.
I wish everybody would do it.
JACK BLACK SAYS SUPREME COURT CAN BE FRISKED.
(UP) Jack Black, notorious Freeper and freedom advocate, today ruled that Supreme Court justices may be frisked at will by American citizens. In his ruling Black noted that the justices have consistently sided with the police in diminishing citizen rights.
“With this ruling I am now permitting average citizens to stop and frisk the Justices. It is my hope that citizens use this new right with discretion. Justices who have, for instance, voted to uphold the second ammendment might to be spared this indignity. The statist criminals who vote for evey bad law their liberal buddies think up, on the other hand, need to have their cocktail party circuit disturbed a bit. A lot of taxi drivers and doormen may now accomplish this via pat-down searches on the judges.
For instance, checking to see what exactly Ruth Bader Ginsberg has in her purse must be deemed a classic case of ‘turn about is fair play’ at this point” said Black.
Several justices were contacted for their comments however none were available by press time.
Professor Stanislaw Lubowski, professor of Constitutional Law at the Cascade Free State University, commented “it is about time that ordinary citizens remind the posers on the Court whose Constitution it is”
reporting by Lucy Kroptkin and A.J. Nock IV for UP.
Self ping to check out your links. Thanks for posting them.
Amazing foresight here: http://transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com/2009/01/1959-2009-ayn-rands-words-as-valid.html
“1959-2009 Ayn Rand’s Words, As Valid Today As Then”
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
States operate on limited budgets, and legal judgments would be significant blows to that budget. I doubt that raising taxes to pay for repeated constitutional violations would be something that would sit well with the voters.
Are you saying that our society is more law abiding than one hundred years ago?
Not at all. Instead, we have many more laws on the books and as a result we are turning a higher percentage of citizens into criminals. Criminals are much easier to rule.
Good point. Thanks
No problem. Have a good one FRiend.
ya know, one basic problem they overlook when they make stupid decisions like this to further the aims of the police state, is that eventually it will come to a point, that the majority of the citizens realize there is zero upside to cooperating with police in any way. In fact, it may not even be worth it to pull over for them. The day that both statements are true may already have passed.
I said I stopped flying commercially
I didn't say I stopped flying.
I won't take my boots off for some federal union thug.
I came to the conclusion 10+ years ago that no matter how dire the situation, it can only be made worse by adding a cop.
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