08-24-2006, 02:58 PM
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Pixie's Resident Reptile
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
Posts: 21,196
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Originally Posted by jseal
OK. With serious reservations about the assertion that if one disagrees with you one is delusional, I can accept that.
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That is a gross mischaracterization of what I said.
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Originally Posted by jseal
Working on the assumption that “the cases where this is the situation are gradually being eroded”, would you please list the cases where searches and wiretaps have been executed on U.S. citizens without first securing a warrant from a Federal judge?
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I may be wrong here, but you seem to have taken my use of the word "cases" in the above post to be "court cases". If so, this is my fault for careless wording. In that part of the post, I should probably have written "examples", or "instances".
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Originally Posted by jseal
You conclude that because the current administration is (supposedly) guilty of the six listed attributes and behaviors, it follows then that federal prosecutors in Boise Idaho, Boston Massachusetts, Seattle, Washington, and throughout these United States are executing unconstitutional searches and seizures on American citizens.
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In these particular cases (and here, yes, these are legal cases), the actions of the federal prosecutors may be unconstitutional. We will have to see as they make their way through the court system. In the final analysis, whether or not something is unconstitutional depends on not on what the US Constitution actually says, but rather what the US supreme Court says it says.
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