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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14567)	8/16/2001 10:37:20 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

If I'm on the jury, she gets the 2 million.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14567)	8/16/2001 10:43:17 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I don't think one can generalize much of anything from the story.....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14567)	8/16/2001 11:42:46 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Government attorneys argue the strip-search was grounded in reasonable suspicion. Kaniff was returning from Jamaica, a known drug-supplying country, after a reasonably short stay, had paid $600 cash for her ticket and didn't know the exact address of the person who was picking her up at the airport, government attorneys argue. Apparently it wasn't just a strip search but a body cavity search. And this was justified because someone paid cash for a ticket and came back from Jamaica. Even if I was a "drug warrior" I would call this an abuse. Not just the specific case but the idea that paying cash or coming from a particular country can amount to probably cause, or that a body cavity search can be imposed on someone without a warrant, or evidence that a crime has been committed. Tim

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14567)	8/16/2001 5:34:56 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Actually, that ain't nothin compared to this one from the WSJ Opinion site: In 1998, Washington's WJLA-TV reports, two Frederick County, Md., sheriff's deputies, believing Frederick Moore IV was drunk, chased his truck for nine miles, broke the truck's window, doused him with pepper spray, beat him with a baton and set a police dog loose on him. He turned out to have been in diabetic shock. Now the cops, Eric Winer and Jeffrey Norris, are siccing lawyers on Moore. They're suing him, "contending his complaints about the incident hurt their careers," WJLA reports. We heard about this on Overlawyered.com.