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Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment
langelgjm writes "The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving the strip-searching of a 13 year-old girl who was accused of possessing prescription-strength ibuprofen on school grounds, in violation of the school's zero-tolerance drug policy. The case has gained national attention because of the defining role it will play in determining which, if any, parts of the Constitution apply on school grounds. In Morse v. Frederick, the Supreme Court has already upheld the right of school administrators to restrict students' free speech at school-sponsored events that take place off school property. The school described the strip-search as 'not excessively intrusive in light of [the student's] age and sex and the nature of her suspected infraction.' The Supreme Court's last decision about searches on school property dealt only with searching a student's purse. Incidentally, the girl was found not to be in possession of any drugs, illegal or otherwise."
Wouldn't Inertial compass or pole sensitivity be more accurate?
Is there some way to program for Windows Mobile without buying a license for MS Windows AND a license for MS Visual Studio? Because I've got a WM device that I'd really like to program for -- it's a fairly reasonable device as smartphones go, other than insisting that I use ActiveSync instead of standard BlueTooth sync profiles -- but I don't own either Windows or Visual Studio, and I can't figure out any way to compile for it without those two very expensive programs.
Android, on the other hand, only seems to require an i386 machine and Java, which makes entry a lot cheaper and less vendor dependent. Not that I wouldn't like root access there, but pretending that you don't have to play MS's game to program for Windows Mobile is a bit disingenuous.
"There are those who would say we are already slaves considering that while we own shotguns the Army owns F-16s. No militia of the people could possibly stand against the Federal government today."
It's probably also worth pointing out that unlike North Korea, the US armed forces aren't in the job simply so they can get access to enough food to survive whilst the rest of the population starves.
If any government truly did get to the point it needed to be overthrown you can be sure that the military would be on the side of the people, not the government, because the military is made up of the people and the people's sons, husbands, wifes, daughters.
Even in countries like Turkey and Lebanon the secular military has always sided with the people when governments have tried to overstep their mark so in a major western nation like the US the military are hardly likely to side with the government, simply because they don't live in fear of the government like they do in other nations where the governments are rather more evil.
I'm not even sure how people envisage the US getting itself into such a state in the first place, look at people like Nixon and Bush, they did some god awful stuff but weren't even close to somehow taking so much control of the citizenship that they had to start arming themselves and rebelling.
If people want to own guns that's fine, shooting is fun, but please, let's cut the myth that gun ownership is required to somehow keep the country from becoming an evil dictatorship. Even in the UK where with the likes of Jacqui Smith we're heading that way Labour are just going to get voted out next election and replaced by the Conservatives who will repeal many of Labour's stalinist laws and schemes. Much of the rest of the world does just fine without turning into an evil dictatorship without gun ownership and in fact, many nations that are evil dictatorships allow gun ownership anyway.
Gun ownership in the US is clung onto for sport and fun and little more.
I agree with your comment to this extent: citizens should be able to possess the current military issue-weapon. In our times, that would be M-16s, or at least its semi-auto equivalent, the AR-15 and clones thereof.
Current military issue weapons also include grenade launchers, laser-guided shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, land mines, bombers, tanks, killer robots, and nuclear bombs. Should citizens be able to possess those as well?
There is obviously a line that needs to be drawn as to which weapons citizens are allowed to have. My belief is that if they can kill mass numbers of people within matters of minutes (like automatic weapons), then it's probably over the line.
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You seriously want people with M-16s? You and the people who mod you insightful scare the crap out of me. I don't think a lot of people in the country are responsible enough to drive or procreate...much less arming them with M-16s. It may change, but at this point in time, I see giving every moron automatic weapons a much bigger risk than the U.S. using the full force of the military on us.
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