This blog has evolved into a series of rough drafts of thoughts and ideas that inhabit my brain. And if you read my blog regularly you realize an editor is worth their weight in gold, unfortunately I have neither. Also I still talk about the Dallas area and what is going on around here.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
not sure what to title this maybe fear factoring the constitution
Don't remember which court of appeals came down with this ruling, but I heard that law enforcement can now search your phone without a warrant. The reasoning is so that a person d oesn't erase data that m.ight be incriminating. A spokesperson somewhere made the comment that this might help solve crimes and then said or help find a child and it is important to get the info off the phone to find the child. The original case was about a drug case. Now no parent wants to lose a child, probably a parent's worst fear. To use this example to allow the constitution to be abused is really taking the cake. Let's create fear to take away our rights. Or to justify taking our rights. I do not want to see a child harmed, but we got to stop letting fear destroy our constitution. There is way too much potential for abuse by law enforcement to allow this to happen.criminals are to be tried in court and guilt or innocence is determine ud. It is not the duty of the courts to make policy on how to fight crime but to determine whether methods are constitutional or not. Here the court forgot they swear to protect the constitution. And again the door for potential abuse is left way too open. Let us hope this gets appealed quickly and better heads prevail. In this situation my phone could be investigated just for disagreeing with this decision. Yes think about those implications.
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