Uh-huh. Sure. Right.
Moreover, she said, one agent threatened to "tear up" the apartment if he did get a warrant.
Psst. Guess what would have happened if they did get a warrant?
Agents also failed to tell Awadallah he had a constitutional right to refuse any searches when they asked him to sign a form consenting to a search,
What is he, a moron? If there is a form to sign asking you to consent to such a search, it is a tautology that you have the right to refuse one.
Sorry, I see no sloppy police work here. All I see is some police trying to play nice with the guy. They should have just gotten a warrant, busted down the door and trashed the guy's apartment. According to the judge, that would have been OK. the judge said.
Precisely - sloppy at best . . .
I read these comments from the "real Patriots" and can only assume that they have no actual experiance in dealing with Police.
Trust me, in the REAL world, this is a fairly common practice. Real life is not an episode of Ally McBeal. This is how law enforcement works on the streets.
Of course, Irory Tower Judges and people who surf the Internet hours a day have very high opinions of what they think the constitution says and how it is to be interpreted, and in the Judges case, the authority to free a man who in all likelyhood, has material knowledge of both past and future terrorist attacks.
But of course, it gives you that nice warm feeling knowing that you are "defending the rights of all citizens".
I have seen this country bend over backwards to respect "rights" to prevent "violations" of those rights.
And here we have the result, the cops threat to "mess up" his house. The suspects rights are therefore abused and is set free.
Like Yakov Smirnoff used to say, "What a country!".
Now he can look to hire a "Dream Team" of lawyers and look for a huge cash settlement, after all, the Judge has already said his "Rights" were violated, game, set, match.
And the really funny part is, my taxes will go up to pay him !
What a country indeed...
Cheers,
knews hound