While we were watching "The Bachelorette", planning our summer vacations, and otherwise pursuing our normal lives, the Supreme Court pushed us one more step toward totalitarianism and the grasping maw of the ever-widening national security state by eviscerating the 4th Amendment. Read the majority opinion in MARYLAND v. KING and weep. Read the dissent for truth and wisdom. Bless you, Justice Scalia, for these parting thoughts: "Today’s judgment will, to be sure, have the beneficial effect of solving more crimes; then again, so would the taking of DNA samples from anyone who flies on an airplane (surely the Transportation Security Administration needs to know the “identity” of the flying public), applies for a driver’s license, or attends a public school. Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection. I therefore dissent, and hope that today’s incursion upon the Fourth Amendment, like an earlier one, will some day be repudiated."
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:26:31 +0000
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