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Originally posted by intrepid
I was wrong.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Benevolent Heretic, you don't have a problem with France doing the very same thing to its own citizens, do you?
Obviously, the French don't have a Patriot Act either....
UK monitors virtually everything. You don't have a problem with that, do you?
Your living post-911. Get used to it or move to Canada.
Even the lowest drug dealer or murder has the rights provided by the Constitution! Do you get that?
Originally posted by Pyros
Hello? McFly??? What, did you think there was no probable cause in this case? Do you think that some Feds just randomly decided to invoke the Patriot Act and go set up surveillance in some poor schlubs home (who just so happened to be an international drug trafficer)?
Originally posted by boogyman
If they had wanted the government to have the right to search you house with out obtaining a warrant they wouldnt have set up a rule that prohibits it.
Originally posted by djohnsto77
Actually, as I understand, the Patriot Act wouldn't have been necessary for this. The ability for such operations already existed for drug cases under a preexisting law. The Patriot Act just expanded it.
So they would have still been able to do this operation, under a different law, if the Patriot Act never existed.
Originally posted by Pyros
Do you think that some Feds just randomly decided to invoke the Patriot Act and go set up surveillance in some poor schlubs home (who just so happened to be an international drug trafficer)?