[ex 98C MI Dude]

And you have just put your finger on why I get so irritated on threads like these. A lawyer who golfs with a politician (aka a ‘judge’) makes some dumb$$ ruling, which then becomes ‘precedent’, which then must be upheld because of the concept of ‘stare decisis’. So the Feds and police go forth with the dumba$$ ruling in hand and We the People get trampled. The Constitution gets shredded.

And now we get to where we are now. Warrantless tracing and eavesdropping is considered acceptable because of ‘practical’ law enforcement purposes. Incrementalism does indeed work.

[ilovesarah2012]

You are so right!

[Soothesayer9]

The whole concept of “stare decisis” (stand on decided cases) assumes that the constitution will never be shredded, which of course *is* being shredded right before our very eyes. A more obvious attack on our sovereignty as well as privacy has never existed in the history of our country.

I almost want to move to Canada (their privacy laws are a bit stronger than ours).