Straight from liberty to hell

Hello to fascism?
My blogfather Jeff has one hell of a good post on the sickening news that the Bill of Rights no longer applies in Louisiana.

Every two-bit corrupt cop can now just bust into your home and search it for what ever he/she wants without cause. Oh yeah, they would only use it with discretion. Right! This is fucking evil. This is anti-American. This is the most diseased Circuit Court decision ever handed down in the short history of our once (but apparently not anymore) great nation.
A very, very, very deep ditch with all of them. Dammit! I would hope that this quickly makes it’s way to the Supreme Court but these days who the fuck knows how they would rule? It amazes me as to how much more wisdom our founders had than we seem to exhibit today:

“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” (Jefferson)

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.”
–Benjamin Franklin

Words to live by. And yet, we seem to have forgotten them. Certainly the cow-shit judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals have. Damn them to hell.

Agree completely. Straight to hell with the lot of them. Jeff also asks why there’s been no hue and cry:

I am just in awe of how citizens — let’s call ourselves “subjects” now — have become nothing more than pods in The Matrix. And I see no hue-and-cry from anyone. Naturally the left is silent since this fits in with their plan to control all of our lives. But where –oh where– are the libertarians’ and conservatives’ voices?

That’s a good question. And why do I expect that we’ll hear more from the former than the latter?
Might it be that no one (especially in the estabishment elite) really cares what happens to the “little people” who live down there in “flyover country”?
Or do they just assume that our Supreme Court will strike down this abuse? If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that you don’t assume anything. (There’s even a growing movement to stop the Supreme Court from protecting what’s left of our freedom.)
Anyway, read Jeff’s whole post.
And weep.


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5 responses to “Straight from liberty to hell”

  1. Tom O'Malley Avatar
    Tom O’Malley

    Have you read the case? It relates to “protective sweeps” made for the protection of an officer. The police were allowed in by a resident of the home. They looked under the bed to see if the guy was hiding there and found some guns.
    South Louisiana can be a dangerous place. There was information that this guy had threatened to kill two judges.

  2. Eric Scheie Avatar

    You are right about the facts, but the law is not limited to them. There’s an old saying that bad cases make bad law. If they can look under his bed, then they can look under mine or yours. No arrest warrant, no search warrant — just the consent of an informant to gain entry plus the bare recital of “officer safety.” The rule is not limited to dangerous places, or circumstances involving a threat to kill judges.
    Dissenting justices Harold DeMoss Jr. and Carl E. Stewart wrote that there is “no doubt that the deputy sheriffs believed they were acting reasonably and with good intentions. But the old adage warns us that ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’ ”
    By the way, there’s an excellent discussion of the Gould case here.

  3. SixFootPole Avatar
    SixFootPole

    What is the “growing movement to stop the Supreme Court from protecting what’s left of our freedom”?

  4. Eric Scheie Avatar

    There are laws and proposals floating around to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The goal is to reverse Marbury v. Madison, and render the Supreme Court unable to declare any legislation unconstitutional. This would destroy the balance of power, and allow Congress to do away with the Bill of Rights if it wanted. (While reversing Marbury might have made sense in Jefferson’s day, considering the huge, unchecked growth of the federal government since then, now it would be very dangerous.)
    For more information see H.R. 3920, and this post.

  5. Syephen or Starn or Storm Malcolmb Anderssonnn the Lesbian-eating pho-loving aesthete-worshipping gu Avatar

    As you’ve probably guessed by now, I’m totally opposed to this movement to castrate the Supreme Court.
    How does a warrant endanger the safety of a police officer? It’s just a piece of paper. Does it have some special poison on it that seeps into their fingers? (I know, I know, wicked Wanda… But anyway…)
    Sorry I haven’t been decorating your posts with my comments the last day or so, but I don’t have anything worth saying right now, and been busy reading an interesting book on liberals vs. conservatives, as well as something special Dean Esmay honored me with. I can’t say anything more about it than this: what a terrific writer he is! — and so are you!