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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (94747)	1/26/2005 12:04:24 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"I think almost everyone except the neo-cons are concerned by the erosion of rights under the Bush regime." Oh really? Got any evidence of that? BTW, I love the way you Bush-haters use the word "regime" where most Americans would use "administration" or "presidency." That's so clever of you - delegitimizing and demonizing with one little word. "Certainly the presumption of innocence is being lost." Oh really? Got any evidence of that? "I have a problem with people being stopped by police and having their car sniffed out by drug dogs if they have given the police no reason to suspect them." Had he "given the police no reason to suspect him", then you might have a point, but the court found 6-2 that they did have sufficient cause for the limited sniff, which they ruled was not intrusive or an invasion of his privacy. Stevens said, "The dog sniff was performed on the exterior of respondent's car while he was lawfully seized for a traffic violation. Any intrusion on respondent's privacy expectations does not rise to the level of a constitutionally cognizable infringement." Contrary to your assertion, they had a valid reason for stopping him in the first place and initial suspicion of drugs was based on some kind of air freshener on the car seat, visible from outside the car, and the driver's "nervous" behavior, but even then the car wasn't searched until the dog sniffed drugs on the driver outside the car. I'm no lawyer, but I don't believe the constitution shields you from implicating yourself by giving off pot odors on the side of the street.