[619] in libertarians
Re: Legislative Alert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Thu Feb 9 18:10:40 1995
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 18:08:45 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@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.)
As I was saying, trading lower taxes for basic rights just isn't a
sound bargain in my book. The true GOP is shining through on this.
Can't blame the Dems for this one.
I hope they tie this provision to the AW ban repeal so that Clinton
will have to veto both in order to veto the AW repeal. Of course,
if he finds a backbone any time soon, he might be persuaded to
veto this crap on its own and let the AW through. Still, it shows
the danger of a full fledged GOP.
But hey, why worry? You've got nothing to hide, right?
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