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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

If it's not there then it is up to the states to determine if they want midnight raids being conducted on it's citizens...where mistakes are made time and time again where innocent men women and children are killed as they sleep.

Perhaps you dont have a family or simply don't care about protecting your family, but most of us do. If you make a mistake and bust in my door as I sleep there are going to be a lot of dead bodies strewn about.

No knock home invasions are conducted by thugs all the time...and now we have the police legally in the same business. Are you going to hestitate to determine in your partly conscious sleep state whether it's thugs or the police making a huge mistake? Not reasonable.

Like me , millions of Americans are armed and ready to protect our families and our homes. And you can't guarantee me nor my family that it will never concern us because the police get the wrong address all the time.

The 4th amendment requires a sworn oath regarding who's there, who they are looking for, and what they expect to find. Guess what? Often swat teams are so eager to bust some heads and doors that they'll take some crack head informants word operating only on that single unreliable tip to invade a residence...and often the wrong address. You believe this ok...I do not.

No knock home invasions are unreasonable and risk the lives of the police and the occupants of the home. If your police dept is too scared to knock on the door, then get some help and surround the place with no room for escape and order your suspect out...If your evidence is so skimpy that it can be flushed down a toilet, then cut the friggin water off before you knock...still if it is that small, then why are you wasting my tax dollars and risking all sorts of lives for some sample of a "controlled" substance?
That doesn't seem anywhere near reasonable to me...

Now read the 4th again, and again try to comprehend it. If you don't get it by now, chances are you never will. But do you have any idea why the 4th was placed in our bill of rights in the first place?


165 posted on 06/15/2006 2:23:58 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Sorry Mr. Jefferson, we forfeited the God given rights you all put to pen. We have no excuse.)
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To: takenoprisoner
If it's not there then it is up to the states to determine if they want midnight raids being conducted on it's citizens...where mistakes are made time and time again where innocent men women and children are killed as they sleep.

I'm sure you have exact figures of "innocent men women and children are killed as they sleep."

(You do, right?)

Perhaps you dont have a family or simply don't care about protecting your family, but most of us do.

And I protect myself by not engaging in the sort of conduct that would give probable cause to a dynamic entry warrant.

If you make a mistake and bust in my door as I sleep there are going to be a lot of dead bodies strewn about.

No there wouldn't. You'd just end up having to change the sheets on your bed and your pajama bottoms.

Like me , millions of Americans are armed and ready to protect our families and our homes. And you can't guarantee me nor my family that it will never concern us because the police get the wrong address all the time.

So, you're now stating that no such warrant is ever served at the correct address.

You can provide evidence to support that claim, right?

172 posted on 06/15/2006 2:45:41 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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