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Originally Posted by theking
Reasonable cause is still required and it is not "every day citizens" that will be investigated...it is criminals/"terrorists" Every day citizens do not provide "reason cause" to be investigated for criminal/"terrorist" activities.
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I suspect you wouldn't admit to loss of rights unless there was a cop with a baton and a flashlight searching your lower intestine for evidence. Even then I suspect you'd try to rationalize it.
"Reasonable cause" has been in the past a basis as slim as being a person who 'fits the description of a suspect' to be eligible for immediate personal search. Would you like to be worked up on the basis of looking like a suspected criminal?
If you took a car for a test drive that was later used in a drive-by and your fingerprints are on it, would that be okay for people to poke through your medical history?
Should hanging out with a group of people unhappy about the current administration, or marching in a public protest, be cause to have a friendly federal agent go through your medicine cabinet and toolchest when you're at work, because you're a suspected insurgent?
The simple fact is, prior to USA PATRIOT cops could only search for what they had on the warrant, and it had to be exercised with your knowledge unless you were a foreign national suspected of espionage or terroristm. Now, they can look for whatever, whenever, not telling you shit until someone feels like it, with the only barrier a limp-wristed 'probable cause' standing in the way.
Moving up a step, check out sections 216 and 220. Now they don't even need to prove probable cause in proximity to where you ARE to be snooped on. You could live in San Diego and have some judge in Des Moines rubberstamp the go-ahead. A double-dunk curtailment of personal AND states' rights.
Terrible idea, terrible law, terrible consequences.