Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it. George Washington , Farewell Address...................Those who so glibly dismiss as mere legal technicalities the procedural guarantees of the Constitution limiting law-enforcement activities forget that nothing is more basic to civil liberty than freedom from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment by policemen who are masters, not servants, of the law. The most characteristic symbol of the police state is the ominous rap on the door at night. Freedom from the fear of that rap is the basic condition for the exercise of every other form of freedom. The history of liberty, Mr Justice Frankfurter once observed, is the history of the observances of procedural safeguards.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:23:17 +0000
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