High Court Backs Police No-Knock Searches Submitted by davidswanson By Gina Holland, Associated Press Washington - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police armed with a warrant can barge into homes and seize evidence even if they don't knock, a huge government victory that was decided by President Bush's new justices. The 5-4 ruling signals the court's conservative shift following the departure of moderate Sandra Day O'Connor. Dissenting justices predicted that police will now feel free to ignore previous court rulings that officers with search warrants must knock and announce themselves or run afoul of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches. Read entire article: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/11897 So, the USSC just erased the fourth amendment. So much for that oath of office they took. Love, peace and Joy Gizzee
What do you expect from a long and steady implementation of institutionalised treason? Those in power care nothing for the "nation", merely how they may use their offices to secure more power and wealth unto themselves and their cronies at the expense of the rest of the citizenry. Welcome to the "New American Century".
This is terrible. How can they do this to people? More importantly, what can we do to change this? Any ideas? Man, we have to have a sit-in or protest or something. We are being stripped of all our rights... It seems unreasonable to me, and i just dont understand how these things can be done or passed in the day and age we live in. If we don't stand up now and say enough is enough we may lose everything...
if you want a sit in or something, then organize it man. i would organize something but im too young. you are old enough. we need somebody to organize some kind of protest right in the govts face. right in DC in front of the white house. I have no expeiance in protests so i dont know how to organize one but who here agrees that this needs to be the last straw?
Here's an idea. At least it's an attempt at correcting a wrong through peaceful means. http://www.jail4judges.org/ Peace.love and joy! Giz
I support no-knock searches WITH a warrant. I'm not going to get into the whole warrant issue, but for the safety of the police officers, no-knock searchs are often essential. The time that a criminal takes to arm themself is the reason.
Generally, when the police have a warrent, they have a pretty damn good reason to get it. Besides, why would the police announce their presence on a suspect who might be potentially homocidal and armed?
OH, and once more thing. Being searched for possesion of illegal narcotics and firearms, and murder/rape doesn't exactly qualify as being stripped of your rights.
obviously by your name, i can see you like drugs. so how would you like it if you had some weed, some shrooms, a bit of E, and maybe a couple of hits of acid in your house. you invite some people over and get to the fun. someone sees through the window one of your plants and the smoke. so they call the cops. a few days later the cops get a warrent. now, instead of them knocking and you having enough time to flush your evidence or get rid of it somehow, they can charge in and your fucked. i dont think you would ;like it too much. and anyway, this is just the beginning. eventually the courts will decide that cops dont need warrents and can bust in any time they wish. the whole reason im pissed about this is that, yes some good can come from it, but it is another freedom that we are losing. and little by little we will lose more and more freedoms till we have none and we are a facist state. this isnt the end of them robbing us of our freedoms and rights.
Do a search for wrong door raids or something similar. Here are few links: Excerpt: The tally thus far from my research: 42 innocent people killed in paramilitary raids. 57 if you include police officers. Another 20 were nonviolent offenders (recreational pot smokers, gamblers, etc.) shot and killed either by accident or because they mistook raiding police for criminal intruders and were killed when they attempted to defend themselves, their homes, and/or their families. http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026661.php#026661 April 24, 2006 Torture and the Drug War In February of last year, I told you about Lester Eugene Siler, a Tennessee man who was literally tortured by five sheriff's deputies in Campbell County, Tennessee who suspected him of selling drugs. The only reason we know Siler was tortured is because his wife had the good sense to start a recording device about halfway through the ordeal. The audio is now available online (read the transcript here). Drug war outrages lend themselves to overuse of superlatives. But I gotta say, this may be the most horrifying 40 minutes of audio I've ever heard. http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026505.php March 23, 2006 Elderly couple hurt in raid on wrong house by Horn Lake police http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060323/NEWS/60323008 No SWAT The most important Supreme Court case you've never heard about. By Radley Balko Posted Thursday, April 6, 2006 http://www.slate.com/id/2139458/ June 3, 2006 Raiding Reality by Radley Balko In fact, last week, just as Rep. Sensenbrenner was scheduling this week's hearings, a SWAT team in Dodgeville, Wisconsin broke open a window, rolled in a diversionary grenade, and raided an innocent couple's home in full battle gear. The terrified occupants were handcuffed at gunpoint before police realized they had struck the wrong apartment. Last December, a Pewaukee, Wisconsin SWAT team made a similar mistake, violently breaking into the home of retired lawyer H. Victor Buerosse. That's Sensenbrenner's home district. Bueorosse grew understandably furious when he learned that the real target of the raid, his neighbor, was suspected of no more than the recreational use of marijuana.... http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6412 Oh yeah, don't forget, this country spreads freedom around the globe. Are you really a free people with the rule of law being followed?
Laws are for the benefit of the people. With out law, there is chaos. With chaos, murder and crime reign. Both of those incidents pertain to a Wisconsin SWAT unit. And was anyone really harmed when the SWAT officers raided the couples home? nope. Maybe if people had the common sense not to commit crime and not sell/do drugs, things like this wouldn't happen. I can hardly blame the police for doing there job.
I'm sure you are aware of how the ATF behaves to harass law abiding gun owners right? They barge into homes using swat tactics to deal with people who have committed minor minor weapons violations: for example, a guy has a 17.5 inch shotgun instead of an 18.5 inch shotgun, so they'll tear his house apart. Thats just nuts and unacceptable.
and who gives the government the right to tell me i cant treat my body how i want? if i wanna smoke weed 3 times a day, then its my right as a human being to do it
