A Stitch in Haste

…because the government is crafting a new excuse to shred our online privacy rights.

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There was a bit of blogospheric buzz over whether "abort" is synonymous with "assassinate" (it's not), but that debate misses the point.

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Are teachers these days really such weaselly wimps that they must call the cops to subdue every smart-aleck (but utterly harmless) brat?

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I'm of course not defending sniff dogs — not even close.

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For (sometimes literally) crying out loud, leave the cuffs in the holster and keep 8-year old kids out of Central Booking.

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A response to David Freddoso's silly defense of the War on Drugs.

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Strip searches of students; the 14-year old "terrorist" sent to Guantanamo; the "Barney Fife" exception to the exclusionary rule.

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This Oregon drug case is not one for the ages. I wanted to highlight it, however, if for no other reason than for the sheer purity of its lesson.

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To review: Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have crafted a plenary "border exception" to the Fourth Amendment. Bootstrapping long-obsolete doctrines about shipping, tariffs and contraband, the courts deferred as the government exploited one of the greatest loopholes in the Bill of Rights: the idea that only "unreasonable" searches and seizures are proscribed, and that [...]

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The District of Columbia's subway bureaucracy has announced that it will commence warrantless, suspicionless searches at subway entrances:
The program is modeled after one begun three years ago in New York that has withstood legal challenges. However, experts said it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of such searches, beyond assuring the public that police are [...]

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