Comments on: Words Fail Me

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 30 May 2006 05:11:36 +0000

Oh yeah, and in serving the warrant on the right premise, no flash-bang device was used either. Next thing you'll know we'll be using Delta Force units to enforce jay-walking citations.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 30 May 2006 05:10:29 +0000

I don't know Kent, using no-knock raids along with paramilitary units to serve warrants on minor drug offenders strikes me as trampling the Constitution in spirit is not in letter. If you go the Balko's site you'll see a description of a no-knock raid, with a warrant that went wrong. Wrong apartment, throwing a disabled woman and her boyfriend to the ground, holding guns on them, etc. Then these same cops went to the right apartment, knocked on the door, served the warrant without a "dynamic entry" arrested four people and confiscated a few ounces of marijuana. If the Constitution has been damaged in a very minor way with this incident and the SCOTUS and Congress' approval of these tactics then I'm not sure what damages the Constitution. Then multiply all this kind of damamge by all the inappropriate uses of SWAT units and we have, I think, a fairly serious problem.

By: RJN

RJN — Mon, 29 May 2006 18:25:25 +0000

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner is going to help save our butts from the awful immigration reform bill that Sen. Frist let through the Senate.

I do agree, however, that we the people are under an increased threat from our own police depts. because of the so-called Patriot Act.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 29 May 2006 17:28:46 +0000

Assuming the SWAT teams had a warrant, the Constitution was not trampled. Idiocy by police (and possibly judges responsible for granting warrants) is not the same as a Constitutional crisis.

I'm just saying that not all appalling acts by government are unconstitutional.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Mon, 29 May 2006 07:22:45 +0000

Sounds like Frist is showing some backbone on this issue. Good for him.

By: JKB

JKB — Mon, 29 May 2006 06:24:20 +0000

Most people have forgotten the rhetoric that pervaded DC prior to September 11. I moved to the DC region in late 1999. There even the local news is saturated with congressional rhetoric. I quickly noticed that both sides of the aisle had a common them. Each pandering seemed would profess the great need to impose some edict, but for it being blocked by that bothersome Constitution. This rhetoric died away after the attack but we should have known it wouldn't last. It does seem that those who find the Constitution a burden are those we entrust to govern by it.

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