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Court Overturns Bookstore Ruling
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| April 8 2002
| AP
Posted on 04/08/2002 2:04:42 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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But the high court declared that the First Amendment and the Colorado Constitution "protect an individual's fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference."
Nuff Said
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
A bizarre ruling with no basis in constitutional law.
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Nice to see our rights being upheld on occasion.
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posted on
04/08/2002 2:18:03 PM PDT
by
TheDon
To: spqrzilla9
Might have a basis in the CO state constitution.
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posted on
04/08/2002 2:19:28 PM PDT
by
jude24
To: TheDon
Yes it is.
To: jude24
I'm going to have to read the text of the decision but I doubt there is anything in the Colorado state constitution on which to base this. Sounds like some Florida S.Ct. justices are moonlighting here in Colorado.
To: spqrzilla9
I'm going to have to read the text of the decision but I doubt there is anything in the Colorado state constitution on which to base this Then the lawsuit would have been filed in federal court...
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posted on
04/08/2002 2:28:08 PM PDT
by
gdani
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
"protect an individual's fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference." What is sad is that it took a State Supreme Court ruling to figure this no-brainer out.
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posted on
04/08/2002 2:28:43 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: gdani
That's not correct. This appeal is based on a warrant issued by a state judge. It isn't a lawsuit per se and would not start in the federal court system.
To: spqrzilla9
A bizarre ruling with no basis in constitutional law. Please elaborate. How is this bizarre? Does the government have a right to know what books I've purchased? Should booksellers compile a database on who bought what?
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posted on
04/08/2002 2:31:41 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Kalashnikov_68
There is no "right" to purchase books anonymously. And there isn't a "right" to hide whether or not you bought a particular book when that book is linked to a criminal act, as is the case here.
To: spqrzilla9
There is no "right" to purchase books anonymously. What makes you so sure?
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posted on
04/08/2002 2:34:53 PM PDT
by
freeeee
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
ATOMIC_PUNK
Good name!
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
"Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic and Amphetamine Manufacture" by
Uncle Fester and "The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories" by
Jack B. Nimble.
Interesting noms de plume (or at least I'm assuming.)
To: spqrzilla9
There is no "right" to purchase books anonymously. And there isn't a "right" to hide whether or not you bought a particular book when that book is linked to a criminal act, as is the case here. Sure, you say that now. Would you have felt the same way if Clinton's America still existed. You and Randy Weaver would have shared a cell in the federal pen.
To: freeeee
Because the very idea is silly.
I'll assume you are a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Imagine a crime scene where the police find a gun that was used, still having a price tag attached to it that reads "Joe Bob's Guns".
You would not seriously suggest that the police have no right to go to Joe Bob's Guns and ask to see the record of who that gun was sold to, now would you?
Of course not. In that case, and in this case, the police had a good reason to ask for that record. The item was a piece of evidence of who committed a crime.
There is no government action related to the content of the book itself, they are not criminalizing reading a book. The police are trying to use the book as evidence of who was part of the operation to build a meth lab.
To: theoverseer
Exaggeration doesn't improve an argument.
To: spqrzilla9
Hey...how is this possible? :-)
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