Friday, July 22, 2005
I was walking in the subway yesterday and noticed a sign that said, "Attention passengers: Effective 7/23/05, police have the right to randomly search all backpacks and large bags."
Which is great, because I was just thinking how outdated the Bill of Rights is. Clearly the founders of the nation had not anticipated 'backpacks' when they proscribed government officials from committing unreasonable searches and seizures. I'm glad that some of our officials are enlightened enough to figure out that the founders really meant to say that unreasonable searches and seizures are prohibited until such time as we really, really need to search people.
These being the same officials who decided that 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms' really meant that people can keep arms, but not bear them, and only if they're not on a list of things that Diane Feinstein thinks look scary. Or the people who decided that the freedom of the press really meant that the press can be literally imprisoned if they don't reveal something the government wants to know.
Hey gun haters... you can't pick and choose what freedoms you like, or it will bite you in the ass when they search you backpack and throw your favorite reporters in jail.
Which is great, because I was just thinking how outdated the Bill of Rights is. Clearly the founders of the nation had not anticipated 'backpacks' when they proscribed government officials from committing unreasonable searches and seizures. I'm glad that some of our officials are enlightened enough to figure out that the founders really meant to say that unreasonable searches and seizures are prohibited until such time as we really, really need to search people.
These being the same officials who decided that 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms' really meant that people can keep arms, but not bear them, and only if they're not on a list of things that Diane Feinstein thinks look scary. Or the people who decided that the freedom of the press really meant that the press can be literally imprisoned if they don't reveal something the government wants to know.
Hey gun haters... you can't pick and choose what freedoms you like, or it will bite you in the ass when they search you backpack and throw your favorite reporters in jail.
