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Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense
sl4shd0rk writes "Taking a page out of the TSA handbook, the Supreme Court has voted to allow strip searches for any offense, no matter how minimal. The article cites these two tidbits from Justice Anthony Kennedy: 'Every detainee who will be admitted to the general [jail or prison] population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed,' and 'Maintaining safety and order at detention centers requires the expertise of correctional officials.'"
You can't be arrested for jaywalking (and thus no strip search), but all attractive people will now also be charged with resisting arrest.
(insert gay voice)
Oh officer, I've been a bad boy, you gotta strip search me...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm already done being mad about this. Since you're basically being strip searched now when you board a plane, take a train, drive your car, get arrested for smoking a joint, yadda, yadda, I propose we just stop wearing clothes.
I mean the TSA, cops, school principals, ticket wardens, etc. are gonna remove 'em anyway, you might as well just stay naked.
And for all you RTFA dopes who are going to reply to this saying "this is only for people being released into the general prision population, I say 'BULLSHIT'.
There's a story right below this one about cell-phone tracking without a warrant. Don't believe for a second this ruling won't be used to abuse rights by those in power, or those that THINK they have power because they have guns and handcuffs, or they are backed up by some "board".
Hell, potential employers want your facebook password, maybe pretty soon you'll be strip searched before you can go to work.
Time to leave this country. In Florida, it's legal to provoke someone to threaten you and then you shoot them, it's now legal to strip search anyone for any reason, and our government is controlled and run by Goldman Sachs, for Goldman Sachs. Screw this.
Sounds like you may still be mad about this.
If like me, you are over 50, then every time you see a doctor they want to stick their finger up you're arse. So instead of calling it a "strip search" just give them a paper gown and call it a "health check", jobs done.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Have you met many 'lady' cops? Most of the one's I know make Frau Blücher *neeeeigh* look like Heidi Klum.
Careful what you wish for.
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