by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MORE
Showing posts with label warrantless search. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warrantless search. Show all posts
Orwellian Justice Upholds NSA Spying on Americans: Court of Appeals Upholds Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Raping Of America
Mile markers on the road to fascism.“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”—Martin Luther King Jr. There’s an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former regimes, the militarized police have stepped up ... MOREDo Christians & Conservatives Really Desire A Police State?
by Pastor Chuck Baldwin. Washington's criminal class is bipartisan. A Nazi-like, Stalin-like, Mao-like Police State is being constructed in earnest in America. It started with the Patriot Act in 2001. And it has only gotten worse every year since. And, in reality, this burgeoning Police State has no serious opposition–with the exception of 75 million + gun owners. ... MOREDrug War Update - Jacob Sullum: Texas Cops Sexually Assault Another Motorist In The Name Of Pot Prohibition
Another warrantless roadside cavity probe. What is it with Texas cops and roadside vaginal searches? Last May I described
three strikingly similar cases in which Texas troopers fruitlessly
looked for marijuana in the private parts of women pulled over for minor
traffic offenses. The incidents were outrageous enough to inspire a new ... MORETim Cushing: Getting Behind The Wheel Is Pretty Much Kissing Your 4th Amendment Protections Goodbye
Cars are for criminals. There's been more good news than bad concerning the Fourth Amendment
recently. In addition to the Supreme Court's ruling that searches of
cellphones incident to arrest now require a warrant, various circuit court decisions on cell site location info
and the surreptitious use of GPS tracking devices may see the nation's ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: Drivers, Beware Of The Costly, Deadly Dangers Of Traffic Stops In The American Police State
"Comply or die" is the new police state motto. Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a
bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge
relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about
your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn
deadly. The odds weren’t ... MOREA Bogus Warrant, A Burned Baby, And An Immoral War
by Jacob Sullum. Bad cops manufacture probable cause. Shortly after midnight on May 28, 2014, Habersham County, Georgia, Deputy Sheriff Nikki Autry asked Magistrate Judge James Butterworth for a "no knock" warrant to search a house on Lakeview Heights Circle in Cornelia. In her application, Autry, a special agent with the Mountain Judicial ... MORE
Feds Deploy Warrantless Database Fishing Expeditions
by Mark J. Fitzgibbons. While focusing their resources and political energy on the NSA’s mass collection of metadata, privacy advocates have neglected the most dangerous institutionalized violations of the Fourth Amendment: administrative subpoenas. Now a United States District Court judge in Texas has ruled for the Drug Enforcement Agency ... MOREFeds Can Read Every Email You Opened Without A Warrant
by Zack Whittaker. It's no longer a surprise that the government is reading your
emails. What you might not know is that it can readily read most of your
email without a warrant. Any email or social networking message you've opened that's more than six months old can also be accessed by every law enforcement official in government
-- ... MOREDid The TSA Agent Steal Jersey Honoring Yankee Legend From The Luggage Of His Window? She Thinks They Did.
from CBS New York. The widow of a baseball icon was heartbroken Friday night over a missing jersey that she believes was stolen. Last month, the Yankees gave Soot Zimmer a jersey in honor of her late husband, Don Zimmer, who served as bench coach for the team for several years. But the jersey never made it back to Florida with Soot ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Neither Freedom Nor Safety
Doing away with probable cause for the illusion of security. In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have created a false sense of security. And ... MOREArizona Court Upholds Warrantless Search At Wrong House
State lawyers in robes castrate the Fourth Amendment. An Arizona court has upheld a woman's marijuana convictions based on a warrantless search conducted when sheriff's deputies were sent to a home in response to a 911 "hang-up" call that was treated as an emergency. The Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected Starr Bennett's argument ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Saving The Fourth
The Patriot Act has a bad pedigree and an evil history. In the fearful days immediately following 9/11, the Department of Justice quickly sent draft legislation to Congress that, if enacted, would have permitted federal agents to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution by writing their own search warrants. The draft subsequently was revealed ... MOREDoug Newman: They Thought They Were Fighting For Freedom But Are Now Abused By America's Police State
Veterans abused by government. It is easy to stand up and cheer for your favorite government activity. It is quite another to acknowledge what it means in the real world. I almost never try to speak for other people. However, I think it is fairly safe to say that the average military recruit firmly believes that he joins the military so that you and ... MORESarah Longwell: A Call To Ditch Sobriety Checkpoints
Big hassle, lots of money and a tiny reward. Americans should buckle up and brace themselves for particularly heavy traffic this Memorial Day weekend. According to estimates from AAA, more than 37 million vacationers will drive to a destination for the three-day break this year, the most in nearly a decade. Unfortunately, crowded highways ... MOREIllinois Finds DUI Checkpoints Both Costly And Ineffective
by David Rutter. When last we visited the unhappy realm of drunken drivers, we were asking a valid question: What if DUI arrests are going down in Illinois because there are fewer sloshed drivers? That was true everywhere but on Lake County's non-municipal roadways where sheriff's deputies made 348 DUI arrests in 2013, the most of any county ... MOREJacob Sullum: 2 Cases That Illustrate Warrantless Snooping Goes Far Beyond The NSA's Phone-Record Dragnet
If only the Fourth Amendment had teeth. Last week a federal appeals court said
police do not need a warrant to look at cellphone records that reveal
everywhere you've been. Two days later, another appeals court said
the National Security Agency (NSA) is breaking the law by
indiscriminately collecting telephone records that show ... MOREThe Drug War Now Features Roadside Sexual Assaults
by Jacob Sullum. Last month the Texas House of Representatives unanimously approved a
bill that requires police officers to obtain a warrant before probing
the anuses and vaginas of motorists during traffic stops. The fact that
the bill was deemed necessary speaks volumes about the way the war on
drugs has eroded our Fourth Amendment ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Restore The Fourth
Stop the pernicious assault on privacy. If you plan to visit a college campus this month, don't be surprised if you see signs and placards encouraging you to "Restore the Fourth." Restore the Fourth is not about an athletic event or a holiday; it is about human freedom. The reference to "the Fourth" is to the Fourth Amendment, and it is badly in ... MORE
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