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Thu, 15 Jun 2006

High Court backs police no-knock searches

One effect of this ruling will be the increased risk of death to police officers. Think about it: there's been a secret warrant signed out against you, the police arrive in the dead of night to serve it and burst into your house without knocking or identifying themselves, much less showing you the warrant. You think you're being burglarized and open fire at the criminals invading your property: a cop is killed and you're either killed yourself or arrested for murder.

Think that scenario's improbable? Think again.

AP - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police can use evidence collected with a warrant even if officers fail to knock before rushing into a home.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

/Politics | 7 writebacks | permanent link

On 6/16/2006 10:54:32
Walter Jeffries wrote

Very bad news. One more bullet hole in the Constitution. One more reason to have a fence and a pack guardian dogs that make a lot of noise against intruders and even passers by who stop or even slow down too much.

On 6/16/2006 11:40:51
SB wrote

No, it's certianly not the first time that a no-knock warrant has lead to trajedy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Maye

On 6/16/2006 11:53:42
Dave H wrote

Hundreds

of such cases offer a sad commentary on our legal system. But I really wanted to link the one I did because of the source: even the far right is getting kinda ticked over all this madness. I can only hope that we swing back a bit towards our traditional Constitutional paradigm come November. Thanks for the comment and, Be Well, Dave H.

On 6/16/2006 21:36:57
SB wrote

"I can only hope that we swing back a bit towards our traditional Constitutional paradigm come November." You mean with the *Democrats*? The D's are unusually myopic when it comes to anything having to do with drugs or drug enforcement. If you haven't had a chance to read Dan Baum's "Smoke and Mirrors: The war on drugs and the politics of failure" I highly recommend it. I can't see a moderate Republican running and winning, I forsee a push for Jeb Bush and some toothless DINO opposing him. Doesn't look good for civil rights either way.

On 6/16/2006 21:37:50
SB wrote

Aw dangit I keep forgetting it's not 08, forget the last sentence. I'm going to go take my meds now.

On 6/16/2006 21:53:20
Dave H wrote

08 indeed

See, I'm hoping the Dems win big in November, precisely because it's NOT 08 - and if they gain control of Congress in this election and it looks like they'll keep that control in 08 then I'd cheerfully vote for Jeb (or whoever else the Repubs run). OTOH, if the Republicans are going to control Congress then I'll work my back end off to elect a Dem as Prez. Gridlock is good. Barring an outright, across the board, in every state and city as well as Federal, electoral win for the Libertarians, stalemate is our only friend. Call it a pure laissez faire strategy: the more gridlock in Washington, the fewer laws that get passed, and the more freedom we have. Thanks for the comments and, Be well, Dave H.

On 6/18/2006 17:31:54
Walter Jeffries wrote

Yes! Gridlock and stalemate is good. I agree with a Dems win being good. Not because I want the Dems to control things but precisely because I want things mixed up. My wife and I make a point of voting inorder to mix up the parties and agendas. The longer they take to legislate the less damage they do and the more the parties are mixed up the safer we are from bad legislation. Of course, as Leahy (D) and Spector (R) proved, the two can cooperate in bad ways to produce things like NAIS.

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