<div><font size="4"><strong>Fourth Amendment - Search and Seizure</strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">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.</font></div>
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<div>Do you mean to suggest this involves a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution? Come on now, how quaint and liberal you are! If you are suspected of involvement with illegal activity, and "law" enforcement suddenly without notice bash in your door, kill your dogs, and humiliate and abuse you and yours person and privacy, remember if you are law abiding and have nothing to hide, the "law" and law enforcement will protect you... Oh wait, they already violated your right to protection from abuse of person or house, by acting like a lawless gang, while you were innocent (guilty till proven innocent?). Well, that's the price paid for public safety, with the balanced and rational approach to drug abuse applied by the government for all drug use, given the objective realities of the damage done to society by each drug. After all, look at how the government is prosecuting those who promote illegal tobacco and alcohol abuse (who goes to the penitentiary for distributing alcohol or tobacco to minors?), or making huge profits off abuses of prescription drug use, with doctors who never see their patients writing "prescriptions" from Internet sites: this state of affairs combined doing more drug related harm to the public than all other drug use... Surely these legal and enforcement policies are consistent and reasonable regarding use of drugs in our society, balanced to protect civil rights given the social harm involved...</div>
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<div>Justice prevails!</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/9/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">tim lohrmann</b> <<a href="mailto:timlohr@bresnan.net">timlohr@bresnan.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br><br><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4838183480791433140&ei=FSGeSKajNam0qAP68NDQCg&q=maryland+mayor+drug+raid&vt=lf&hl=en">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4838183480791433140&ei=FSGeSKajNam0qAP68NDQCg&q=maryland+mayor+drug+raid&vt=lf&hl=en</a><br>
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