[618] in libertarians
Re: Legislative Alert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (----------------------------------)
Thu Feb 9 17:56:57 1995
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 17:53:55 EST
From: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <sybok@MIT.EDU>
For those of you who don't know yet, there's a bill in Congress attempting
to weaken the exclusionary rule, which prohibits illegally seized evidence
from being used in criminal prosecution. As we all know, as the government
creates more and more victimless crimes, it becomes harder to enforce them
without random or profile-based searches which violate the 4th amendment.
Weakening the exclusionary rule would give the government all-the-more
incentive to continue its chirades. (Like for example, when DEA goons
kicked down the door of a minister in Boston looking for drugs, causing
him to die of a heart attack. Needless to say, no drugs or contraband
were found.)
Ye were warned.
"The British are coming! The British are coming!" --P. Revere
