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CONSERVATIVES TO BUSH: "KEEP YOUR GRUBBY PAWS OUT OF OUR PRIVATE SPACES!"
Guys, this subject is always discussed in a ridiculously overheated fashion. Those who are uberlibertarian privacy nuts (like Ron Paul), that is, those who seriously believe that, to misquote Judge Posner's book title, the Constitution actually IS a suicide pact, already have eight million things to complain about. Even though they never seem to worry that Amazon.co snoops into their personal affairs a lot more than any law enforcement agency.
For the rest of us, we see two things: these issues are meaningless fluff unless you go back a few years and do something that probably needs to be done, that is, drastically change or repeal RICO. That's the statute that gave government and law enforcement the ticket to your pockets, bank account, and every room in your house.
Meanwhile, the SCOTUS dealt with most of this already in Kyllo: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2194/is_10_70/ai_80787342. Go read that decision about the use of IR scanners to gather information to support a 4th Amd probable cause warrant, and fit this latest publicity splash into the rules set forth in Kyllo. And calm down! (says Posner, no statist he)
Comment Posted By Kurmudge On 17.08.2007 @ 14:41
