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To: Sirius Lee
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no 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."

For a couple of centuries, the country operated on the premise that vagrancy laws and other statutes hostile to the criminal element were not "unreasonable". Again, was the country really one vast gulag before the 1960's? I seem to recall an era when people left their homes and their vehicles unlocked.

75 posted on 01/10/2013 2:25:29 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
For a couple of centuries, the country operated on the premise that vagrancy laws and other statutes hostile to the criminal element were not "unreasonable".

We're not talking about vagrants. We're talking about people going about their daily business and getting stopped and felt up by the filthy pervs in blue. NYPD might as well be TSA scum.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no 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."

77 posted on 01/10/2013 2:43:53 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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