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To: Lane3 who wrote (8960)	1/13/2006 9:31:06 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 541374

If they have the power but not the authority, then if it comes out (as it eventually will) that this is happening then hopefully heads will roll, probably at a lower level but maybe penetrating to the rotten brainstem. At least there's a check, an impediment to unfettered rule by secret and unelected bodies. Hence also the need for warrants, IMO. If the law is broken, there's a chance of catching the breakers, punishing them, and cleaning house. Murderers will kill when they have the power, whatever the law. It doesn't mean you make it legal, it means the law gives agreed authority to stop them. Give your secret snoopers and unopposed abductors the authority to act as they wish, or even sufficient shadow of authority that a lawyer can persuade a complaisant (or complacent) court predisposed by its political appointees to believe their pleas of justifiable suspicion, and there is no recourse. (Apologies for the alliteration, I'm stressed...)

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