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From May 2003

Our Constitution, in Amendment, IV states:"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."

Provisions of the new Patriot Act are, by definition, unconstitutional in that they allow the Government to conduct searches of library, bank, ISP, credit card, indeed any record or database on the mere suspicion of terrorist involvement or conspiracy. They merely write in a little book that so and so is a terrorist suspect and we are going to do whatever it is we are going to do. And they do it...no judge, no court, no Fourth Amendment. And if you are the keeper of any records, and they ask you for them, you cannot refuse, no warrant is needed to search your records and you are legally prevented from saying anything to anybody about the search, or you will go to jail.

This is what is known as a "fishing expedition", and we now have an army of newly licensed anglers, without a limit on the catch and no rules on the method of taking. Moreover these fishermen can fish in secret and at night using whatever bait and lighting they chose, most of the time they will prefer the dark, of course. And they can fish in your backyard and if noticed by the neighbors they will swear them to secrecy under penalty of law, you won’t even know they were poaching.

These guys can also ignore the Game Warden because he and the others, like the lawyers and the judges, have no authority here, this is "Fishing for Terrorists", this is War!

Why can’t people just see that?

Well I do see it, we are at War...with the American People and the Constitution. And the People are losing.

RG Johnson
San Jose. CA
  ¶ 8:05 PM

  I know...Blogs are supposed to be timely.

But hey...

It is September 19th...

Zero Hour is 11/2/04...

Only a Nation to save!

Kerry-Edwards!
  ¶ 6:44 PM