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To: Badray
If a search is "reasonable" then a probable cause is already implied.

HOWEVER, a warrant is NOT required for all reasonable searches.

There is no language that says directly or even implies that a warrant is required.

It simply states thatno warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Again, there is NOTHING that says there has to be a warrant for a reasonable search.

If you still disagree, please provide the quote for me.

Do Customs agents need warrants to search luggage? (Yes, I know, there is a facade of consent, but that consent is coerced.)

Do arresting police officers need warrants to search suspects or those being arrested? (No consent by the arrested party requried. No warrant, either.)

No, since those are 'reasonable' searches.

I believe that the Founders did not want to see random personal or home searches just for fishing purposes. Those are unreasonable.

But when there is 'reasonable' suspicion of wrongdoing on the spot, warrants were not and are not absolutely required.

When a warrant is requested, it has certain criteria that must be met.

I think we need to stick with what the Constitution says, not what we wish it says.

236 posted on 01/04/2006 1:23:29 PM PST by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: Eagle Eye

Just read your first sentence. Look up the definitions if you have to. Take a day or two to THINK through what you just said. You have it all almost exactly backwards and is contrary to the idea of liberty.

Sorry. I don't mean to be rude, but that first sentence is just so wrong on so many levels that I can't believe that you actually posted it.


242 posted on 01/05/2006 3:00:10 AM PST by Badray (In the hands of bureaucrat, a clip board can be as dangerous to liberty as a gun.)
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