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The Mockery Of The 4th Amendment Is Complete
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that a strip search of a male inmate by a female guard was unconstitutional.In a 6-5 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said the search of the inmate Charles Byrd at a minimum-security jail in Maricopa County, Ariz. in 2004 was a "humiliating event" that violated his rights. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a three-judge appeals court panel ordered Byrd's civil rights suit dismissed in 2009. But in its ruling Wednesday, the court determined that cross-gender searches of intimate areas violate the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches. Between decades of federal court decisions and the Patriot Act, there is effectively no limitation of the government's ability to search anyone, their communications, records and property, anytime, and in any way they want for little or no reason, utterly perverting the intent of the 4th Amendment. But it is *not* okay for an adult woman to look at an adult male's genitalia and buttocks while doing so, because that would "be unreasonable". No probs, that female prison guard can always get a job at the TSA... Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-06 |
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