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Judges can be woken up, and if we have so much crime that we need to start hiring and paying judges to work grave yard shifts we have much bigger problems.

At that point let's just put society to rest and create Judge Dredd.

All of your examples pale in comparison to the protections afforded by judicial oversight. It's my RIGHT to have that judge woken up and asked if the logic and reasoning behind the violation of my privacy is warranted.

Interesting how that word is used. An action can be "warranted". That's what a warrant means. Somebody designated by the citizens and trained to be impartial evaluated the situation and said the invasion of my privacy was warranted and in the best interests of society.

With respect, I FUCKING WANT THAT.

Don't take away my right to have a judge involved before the cops can even attempt to violate my rights, haul my ass off to jail for forced enemas, colonoscopies, beatings, jail rapes, etc.

Let's keep due process dude. It's a really good idea.

Interesting you should mention some of that last part... a great example of why Judicial oversight is 'warranted' and a search warrant should be REQUIRED:

Woman sues over vaginal, anal exams in El Paso drug search

As her passport was swiped, a CBP officer told her she was "randomly" picked for a secondary inspection, where Portillo and Herrera frisked her through her clothing.
"One of the agents ran her finger over Ms. Doe's genital area during the frisk," the lawsuit said.

Then the woman was told to squat as one of the officers "inserted her finger in the crevice of Ms. Doe's buttocks." The frisk did not show any evidence of contraband or drugs, the lawsuit said.

Then the woman was told to stand in a line with other people as a drug-sniffing dog walked by.

The officer with the dog "hit the ground by her feet, but did not hit the ground by any of the others in the line," the lawsuit said. "The dog responded by lunging onto Ms. Doe and landing its front paws on her torso."

Ives said she does not believe this was a proper signal to indicate a drugs were present, but officers used it to continue the search.

The woman was taken to another room and asked to take off her pants and crouch as her anus and vagina were examined with a flashlight, the lawsuit said.

The woman, now crying, was taken to University Medical Center after the strip search did not find anything.

"During the car ride to the Medical Center, Ms. Doe asked if the agents had a warrant," the lawsuit said. "One of them responded that they did not need a warrant."

While handcuffed to an examination table, the woman was searched again by both officers and Cabanillas and Parsa. She was given a laxative and had a bowel movement in a portable toilet in front of both officers, the lawsuit said.

Then the woman's abdomen was X-rayed, but there were no signs of drugs or any other contraband in the woman's body. A speculum was used to probe her vagina and Parsa's fingers were used to inspect both her vagina and rectum while the door to the examining room was left open, the lawsuit said.

At this point the lawsuit claims, "Ms. Doe felt that she was being treated less than human, like an animal."
The last test was a CT scan of the woman's abdomen and pelvis, which resulted in no evidence of illegal activity being found.

The lawsuit said after the CT scan one of the officers told the woman she could sign the medical consent form and CBP would pay for the exams, but if she did not sign, she would be charged. The woman refused to sign and eventually she was charged more than $5,000 for the examinations.

According to the lawsuit, she repeatedly refused to consent to any of the searches./p>

University Medical Center's search of patients policy states, "Associates, members of Medical

The typical approach is "we need more time/money". And Nancy Pelooney says that the cupboards are dry and there are no more cuts to make. Because obviously the government does not wast money.

Riiiiiiiiight...

I'd venture to say 95% of politicians have lost complete respect for taxpayers' money.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57606633/obamacare-website-looks-like-nobody-tested-it-programmer-says/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/some-say-health-care-sites-problems-highlight-flawed-federal-it-policies/2013/10/09/d558da42-30fe-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story.html?hpid=z3

http://www.elpasotimes.com/politics-national/?third_party=many-tried-to-warn-officials-of-obamacare-website-jam

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/09/3-million-obamacare-website-may-face-months-glitches-experts-warn/

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/debbie-wasserman-schultzs-shocking-insufficient-rambling-response-to-msnbc-on-obamacare-enrollees/

Quote in that article prompted me to chase a link that I haven't read all of yet but makes me wonder if he is implying that all one needs is a wireless acess point to work through to dodge wiretap laws?

"The issue was international communications are on a wire so all of a sudden we were in a position because of the wording in the law that we had to have a warrant to do that. So the most important thing to capture is that it's a foreigner in a foreign country, required to get a warrant. Now if it were wireless, we would not be required to get a warrant. Plus we were limited in what we were doing to terrorism only,,"

That would put the hurt on the oft made suggestion that we establish world wide wireless network. At the same time it would mean everyone in the world was free to tap into any wireless even if banned from broadcast on certain frequencies.

Nice try, but the full-auto and other MILITARY weapons aren't from US gun stores, nor are the grenades. The Mexican authorities cherry-pick the serial numbers they release in a game of blaming the US.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12366467?source=pkg

"I guess you never know when you will need an M-16 with a large clip to take down your own country's elected government."

Elections don't have much to do with freedom. Hitler was elected, lest ye conveniently forget. Even the Kos folks finally "get" the Second Amendment.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/4/881431/-Why-liberals-should-love-the-Second-Amendment

As the border situation deteriorates, police cannot protect everyone (most of what cops do is inherently reactive, not pre-emptive, and there are very few of them. It is wise to be armed with something that has reach and plenty of ammunition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100707/ap_on_re_us/us_drug_war_agriculture
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/01/violent-mexican-drug-gangs-pose-rising-risk-to-ame/
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15405948

There's been a war going on for quite some time. Apparently, either willful ignorance or your politics have blinded you to reality.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_15411359?source=rss ...as Obongo continues his wetback vote-whoring campaign. "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" = Democrat get-out-the-vote drive.

That data is from 2003, which was before the drug violence really heated up in Mexico. If border violence were a problem in El Paso you'd expect the situation to have deteriorated considerably. What has actually happened is that there's been year over year decreases in crime in El Paso.

And if people in El Paso think it's dangerous that's because they're either delusional, or not paying attention. Which, I agree is relevant and might be why AZ passed the law it did. But what it illustrates is that lawmakers should be responsible and not pass laws based on counter-factual fear-mongering nonsense, perhaps they should take their public position seriously and attempt to educate Beck and Dobb's listeners instead of pandering to them.

There is a war going on in Mexico, I don't dispute that. But it's not having an effect on cities on the US side of the border.

Have you all forgotten how AT&T is actively helping the USG wiretap, illegally I might add, 1000s of phone conversations? Including those of American citizens, without a court-authorized warrant? They deserve immunity for their help, says the Man. Now how many of the victims of this wiretapping ended up in Gitmo?

Please read the "subpoena" given to Yahoo China by the authorities. All it says is (basically) we're investigating a theft of "state secrets", and would like your cooperation in this investigation. How many US companies would refuse such a request from a US LEO? Not even one, I can assure you.

Its funny how everyone's getting all bent out of shape about this 1 case, when the FBI issues over 30000 National Security Letters a year, trolling through US citizens' records.

Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, gave away more information to the El Paso Times about the illegal domestic wiretapping program than anyone else (see Glenn Greenwald: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/23/ mcconell/index.html), details that were so secret the government sez they can't be said in court. I hope he's prosecuted for leaking! (And then pardoned, of course.)

A transcript of the interview is available here .